IN KERN RIVER CANYON 



Where Power Projects Are Under Way that Are Expected to Develop Electrical Energy to the Amount of at 



Least 50,000 Volts as a Beginning 



for permanent prosperity with such de- 

 velopment and extension, and to demon- 

 strate unmistakable the rapid and sure 

 decadence of the country unless the na- 

 tional government takes the conserva- 

 tion of these resources in hand, and, 

 with expert care and supervision and 

 liberal appropriations, looks vigorously 

 to their pressing needs. We believe 

 that, with this sort oJ conservation of 

 waterways and forests by the national 

 government, with the states and indi- 

 viduals giving earnest cooperation as 

 they realize that it is the government's 

 right and duty to preserve our material 

 prosperity, the result will largely cover 

 the conservation of all other resources. 

 What I want to ask you is this : As 

 we are so nearly allied in purpose — in 

 part wholly so — would you care to aid 

 our propaganda and yours by printing 

 some of the notes of our progress ? We 

 should be glad to send the material to 

 you ; our organization must be your 

 organization's half-sister. Awaiting 



your reply, while we again assure you 

 of our heartiest endorsement and ap- 

 preciation of CoNSER\ATiON, I am, 

 Cordially, 

 (Mrs.) Frances Siiuttleworth, 

 Cor. Sec. Women's National Rivers and 

 Harbors Congress. 

 Shreveport, La. 



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Leading Nations Import Much Lumber 



FEW people have the slightest con- 

 ception just how important a part 

 timber and unmanufactured wood 

 play in the trade between the world's 

 great nations, and doubtless it is news 

 to many to learn that the lumber im- 

 portations of the various countries 

 amounts to $285,600,000. This is ac- 

 cording to estimates for the whole 

 world, compiled by Dr. Ernest Fried- 

 rich, of the German Commercial High 

 School at Leipzig. 



Notwithstanding the fact that it finds 

 its own supply dwindling, the United 

 States furnishes about twenty per cent. 



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