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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



cultivation. The effort of the associa- 

 tion has had the effect of interesting 

 the lumbermen and they are acting in 

 conjunction with others in preventing 

 forest destruction. — Beatrice (Neb.) 

 Sun. 



Down With This motto, says the 

 All the Trees Kansas City Star, be- 

 longs to the past. The 

 organization of a club or association 

 in St. Louis, recently, to encourage 

 the practice of forestry, shows that 

 lumbermen realize how serious is the 

 situation with respect to a future tim- 

 ber supply. The outlook in southern 

 Missouri, some of the largest timber 

 land owners say, is most discouraging ; 

 so bad, indeed, that the State's pro- 

 duction will continue now annually to 

 show a very large decrease. Many mills 

 have been abandoned entirely because 

 the woods have been "stripped." 



The St. Louis organization includes 

 some of Kansas City's big lumber- 

 men. These are men who know 

 something of the history of timber 

 supply, and realize that that the old 

 answer. "We'll go somewhere else 

 when these woods play out," won't do 

 now. Lumbermen know that "some- 

 where else" either is being stripped or 

 will be protected by forestry rules. 



New York Mount Marcy and its 



Purchasfs surrounding peaks are 

 Mount Marcy • , j , • ^ i 



mcluded m a purchase 



of a tract of 3,500 acres of land in the 

 Adirondacks which the New York 

 State Forest Preserve Board has just 

 secured. The tract is heavily timber- 

 ed and but for the State's action in 

 stepping in at this time the lumber 

 would have been cut off for pulp. 



The Hudson river has its source in 

 the wooded slopes of Alarcy. Mount 

 Marcy and the wooded tracts adjoin- 

 ing are included in one of the few 

 parcels of land in the State in which 

 the woodman's axe has never been 

 swung, the forests being in their prim- 

 itive state. — Albany Argus. 



State Tree The Legislature of Illm- 

 and Flower °^^ ^as passed an act de- 

 claring the native oak 

 tree to be the State tree of Illinois, and 

 the native violet the State flower. 



Pay Rail- The President has urged 



G^^d^W k prompt action on the 

 Southern Pacific Rail- 

 road's claimi of $1,600,000 expended in 

 controlling the Colorado River in 

 southern California. That work was 

 performed by the Southern Pacific as 

 the result of a personal letter of appeal 

 sent to President E. H. Harriman by 

 President Roosevelt. It cost, accord- 

 ing to the railroad company, more than 

 $3,000,000, and saved the Imperial 

 Valley of California from inundation 

 and its crops and farms from ruin. 

 Part of the expense they hold belongs 

 to the Government. 



■r The North Carolina So- 



Appalachians ^iety of New York at its 

 annual dinner recently 

 had as a feature of the evening an ad- 

 dress by Mr. William L. Hall, in 

 charge of the Appalachian investiga- 

 tion, with stereopticon pictjires. 



To Insure a The Indianapolis Nezvs 

 Ohli^^^^^ of March 19 discusses 

 this topic editorially, 

 strongly advocating the adoption of 

 measures which will insure this im- 

 portant end. It continues : 



"A question has been raised in some 

 quarters as to the constitutional power 

 of Congress to establish National for- 

 est reservations for such a purpose. 

 This is a mere quibble. If Congress 

 may establish reservations of public 

 lands, as it has done repeatedly, it 

 may do so by purchasing lands. The 

 power is clearly covered by the power 

 of Congress to promote the general 

 welfare. It has as much right to im- 

 prove the navigation of the Ohio and 

 its tributaries by establishing a Na- 

 tional forest reserve at their head- 

 waters as it has by dredging their beds 

 or building locks." 



