I04 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION February 



stand of spruce I know of in the whole it is striving to secure a Federal For- 

 region) to supply a new mill of 100,000 est Reserve in the White Mountains 

 feet capacity a day, located in Wood- of New Hampshire and in the South- 

 stock, N. H. ren Appalachians. I do not believe 



Almost every Forest Service man that any appropriation of equal 



has heard of J. E. Henry & Sons' plant amount which passes Congress at this 



in Lincoln, N. H. Mr. Henry, Sr., session will accomplish more of per- 



told me they used between forty and manent good to the community than 



fifty millions of feet per year of spruce, will this, if it is passed." 



I could continue north, citing simi- 

 lar instances of large concerns who are The The following letter 

 laying waste the beautiful forest. f^*"oiJ°'^ from W. A. Russell, of 

 The only hope is that a bill will soon Beaver, Ohio, to the Sec- 

 be passed creating the National For- retary of Agriculture has been referred 

 ests ; and I hope I will have the pleas- to this office by the Forest Service as 

 ure of working on the one located in valuable information: 

 the White Mountains. To be back "I received the circular on The 

 among those old peaks is my desire Waning Hardwood Supply, by Will- 

 and before long at that. Then I will iam L. Hall, Assistant Forester. The 

 be content, and not till then. If there circular is all too true, as the forests 

 is anything I can do to be of direct in this part of the country are disap- 

 assistance to you in furthering the pearing very rapidly. It is alarming, 

 cause do not hesitate to call on me. in the last year, the number of tracts 



With a rousing cheer for the effort? of timber that have been cut away, 



and aims of the association, I am more than 60 per cent, of what was 



very truly yours, standing at January ist, 1907. Every 



Nelson L. LeGrand. station along the railway is glutted 



with ties made of all kinds of hard 



Out of the Mr. A. W. Frederick, and soft woods, a great many of them 



Woods of Northfork, California, made of poles that are not really more 



ness^ ^'^ ^ " writes these encouraging than one-half the dimensions of a first- 



.words : class tie. 



"It seems to me that your views of "Most of such ties come from tim- 



forestry find the true highways and ber land that was cut over years ago. 



byways of right government in a re- Such cutting of the second growth is 



public. You certainly see the way out setting the future timber supply far- 



of the private woods of shortsighted- ther away. There is a great deal of 



ness into a beautiful vista of liberal rough, stony, hilly land in southern 



public forestry. Your statement of Ohio that would be better for the 



the di 'Terence between paternalism and country if it had never been cleared, 



popular government can never be gain- The lumbermen are trying to buy 



said. • every piece of timber left, and if it 



"I will inclose list of names of my were not for a few level-headed men, 



teacher friends and will personally or who look at things differently, they 



by letter address them and call for would exhaust this country of the still 



volunteers." remaining timber in the next twelve 



months. At the present rate of cut- 

 No Appro- An electrical engineer, ting, we will in three years from now 

 ?)"^M°" ^*^^ whose profession makes have none, or very little, left. 

 Good°'^^ him appreciate the need "The forest is dying off so much 

 of the work, writes : faster than it did twenty years ago. 



"I have been all along a thorough It is all more or less dying and going 



believer in the work of the American back, causing a great many people to 



Forestry Association, but I desire to sell their timber. The country here 



become a member at this time because has had, and still has, some of the 



