WITH MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS 



Wants to Be Mr. Newton Garner, 

 Me'mber"^ Beaumont, California, 

 remits his dues to be- 

 come an annual member, and says: "I 

 hope to become a sustaining member 

 or a life member when I renew." 



We, too, hope that Mr. Garner will 

 have his wish. 



Sends in ^^- ^- ^- Firstbrook, a 



Three More Canadian member of the 

 American Forestry As- 

 sociation, living at Toronto, when he 

 sent in his annual dues the other day 

 sent also the dues of three other gentle- 

 men, new members, whom he had in- 

 duced to join. This is good work. 



Exile Loves An agent of the Forest 

 Kntains Service in Guam, New 

 Mexico, earnestly de- 

 sires to see his old home in New Eng- 

 land receive the benefit of the National 

 Forest system. He writes : 



Enclosed find application for mem- 

 bership in the American Forestry As- 

 sociation. It has been my intention 

 for some time to become a member, 

 and when I found your letter and 

 pamphlet this morning I decided not 

 to wait another day. 



The object of the association in do- 

 ing all in its power to have the White 

 Mountains and Appalachian Reserve 

 created is a most worthy one, and I 

 will be only too glad to help it along 

 in my small way. 



I spent six of the most enjoyable 

 years of my life in the White Moun- 

 tains, and am acquainted with them 

 from north to south, and from east 

 to west, having ridden through them 

 on railways and carriages and made a 

 tramp with a friend through them of 

 250 miles. I also worked in the moun- 

 tains for the International Paper Com- 

 pany and for the Publishers' Paper 

 Company, and had ample opportunity 

 to witness the devastation going on. 



A year ago last summer (in 1906) I 

 worked in a surveying party which 

 laid out the line for eighteen miles of 

 railroad from Conway, N. H., into 



Albany Township. It seemed to me, at 

 the time, that it was a shame Congress 

 had not allowed for the creation of a 

 National Forest before that time, and 

 bought the land which the new road 

 was going to drain of its beautiful for- 

 est cover, estimated at '400,000,000 of 

 feet of the finest spruce, besides vari- 

 ous other species. 



In many places the woods were so 

 dense that the sun hardly penetrated; 

 and yet in. those same places, even this 

 early, is a bare waste of ground, cov- 

 ered with stumps and brush, left 

 where it was cut, a constant invitation 

 to fire. How much better it would 

 be if the Government, through the 

 Forest Service, directed the cutting of 

 timber there, the piling and burning 

 of brush, etc. 



If a National Forest should be 

 created I will immediately apply for 

 a transfer to it, as no place has the 

 spot in my heart which the White 

 Mountains occupy; and, while I have 

 seen a large portion of this country, 

 no part of it compares with them for 

 beauty. 



,,,.„ c Continuing, he tells us : 



Will Soon Tj. ^ 11 1. 



Be Too •'^^ Congress delays much 



Late longer it will be too late 



to save the denuding of 

 many of the fine old mountains. The 

 Tripyramids, in Waterville, have al- 

 ready been visited along their base by 

 the lumberman's axe, on the western 

 side ; and the new railroad, of which 

 I spoke, will tap the eastern slopes of 

 these three sister peaks, also the east 

 slope of Kaucamaugus. Black Moun- 

 tain, between Waterville and Sand- 

 wich, has had its northern slope well 

 cut over to within 1,000 feet of the 

 summit. The south slope, in Sand- 

 wich, will probably remain untouched 

 for some time, as there are no mills 

 on that side of the mountain. 



Mount Osceola has been logged on 

 by the International Paper Company, 

 on the south slope ; and at present the 

 Publishers' Paper Company are cut- 

 ting on the north side (where grows 

 one of the finest, if not the very finest 



