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CONSERVATION 



the year had been maintained the total 

 production of pig iron in 1907 would 

 have been 27,000,000 tons. 



Statistics of the production of pig 

 iron have not hitherto been collected 

 independently by the United States 

 Geological Survey, the figures published 

 in its annual reports on mineral re- 

 sources having been furnished by Mr. 

 James M. Swank, the general manager 

 of the American Iron and Steel Asso- 

 ciation. In January, igo8, however, in 

 order to ascertain the value of the pig- 

 iron output, circular letters were sent 

 to all the producers asking them to fur- 

 nish to the Survey confidential infor- 

 mation as to stocks on hand December 

 31, 1906, marketed production, total re- 

 ceipts from sales free on board at fur- 

 nace during 1907, and stocks on hand 

 December 31, 1907. The managers of 

 only three furnaces, rated at an average 

 annual output of 35,000 tons each re- 

 fused or failed to comply with this re- 

 quest, and the total production re- 

 ported to the Survey differs by only 

 about four-tenths of one per cent, from 

 the total output reported by Mr. 

 Swank — 25.781.361 long tons. 



The following table gives the quan- 

 tity and value of pig iron produced in 

 the United States in 1907, by states: 



Quantity and value of pig iron produced in 

 the United States in 1907 by states 



state 



Alabama 



Illinois 



New' Jersey. . 

 New York. . . . 



Ohio 



Pennsylvania.. 



Tennessee 



Virginia 



Colorado 



Missouri 



Connecticut. . . 

 Massachusetts. 



Georgia 



Texas 



Indiana 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Wisconsin. ... 



Kentucky 



Maryland 



West Virginia 



Quantity 

 (Long tons) 



1,686,67!4 



2.547,768 



.373,189 



1,659,7.5:2 



5,250,687 



11,348,549 



393,106 



478,771 



|- 468,486 

 [ 19,119 

 i 55,825 



758,590 



830,845 



Value 



25,781,361 



$30,100,000 



52,229,000 



7,554,000 



33,097,000 



106,387,000 



234,952,00(1 



7,542,000 



8,963,000 



11,628,000 



663,000 



1.181,000 



18,829,000 



16,833,000 



529,958,000 



Harry Day Everett 



A T THE Forester's Conference, held 

 '^^- in the ofifice of the Bureau of For- 

 estry of the Philippine Islands on July 

 29, the following resolutions in mem- 

 ory of Harry Day Everett, the young 

 Forester who was murdered by natives 

 of the island of Negros, on May 11 

 last, were adopted : 



By the death of Harry Day Ever- 

 ett. Forester, and Chief of the Di- 

 vision of Forest Administration, the 

 Philippine Bureau of Forestry loses one 

 of its most efficient and faithful 

 workers. 



Mr. Everett first became interested in 

 the subject of forestry during the lat- 

 ter years of his academic course at Cor- 

 nell University. After his graduation 

 in 1903 as Bachelor of Arts, he entered 

 the University of Michigan, from 

 which institution he received the de- 

 gree of Master of Science of Forestry 

 in 1904. From 1902 to 1904 he spent 

 his summer vacations with field parties 

 of the United States Bureau of For- 

 estry, and upon completion of his stud- 

 ies at Michigan entered the service as 

 a forest assistant. 



In 1905 Mr. Everett transferred from 

 the Forest Service of the United States 

 to the Bureau of Forestry, Philippine 

 Islands. Soon after his arrival in the 

 Philippines he was placed in charge of 

 forest district No. 8, embracing the 

 Visayan Islands. On the reorganiza- 

 tion of the bureau in 1907 he was made 

 chief of the division of forest admin- 

 istration. During the absence of the 

 director of forestry in the United 

 States, from August. 1907. to April, 

 1908, Mr. Everett was placed in charge 

 of .the affairs of the bureau. The du- 

 ties of acting director he relinquished 

 on the return of the director. Shortly 

 afterwards he left for Iloilo to prepare 

 for the expedition on which he was 

 killed. He had for some time desired 

 to finish his work in Southern Negros, 

 which, when done, would complete his 

 forest studies and forest map for the 

 Island of Negros. Together with work 

 previously accomplished in Negros, the 

 results of this expedition were intended 



