132 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



March 



forest in Siberia, 900 miles from Vlad- 

 ivostok, to be delivered in Melbourne, 

 Australia, approximately 8,000 miles 

 away, and nearly three times the dis- 

 tance from New York to San Fran- 

 cisco. 



It is likely that no lumbering opera- 

 tion of recent years more strongly il- 

 lustrates the pinch in the timber sup- 

 ply in all parts of the world. In the 

 news of the concession, told in an 

 American lumber journal, is the sug- 

 gestion of the difficulty that all coun- 

 tries may have to encounter in getting 

 the wood which they need in the fu- 

 ture. Every year timber cruisers are 

 going further and further afield and 

 cutting trees which in former times of 

 abundance they passed because of the 

 inaccessibility of the forest. 



In taking out the Siberian timber 

 the Melbourne lumbermen will have 

 to ship the entire year's cut in July, 

 August, September, and October, for 

 during the remainder of the year there 

 is no open water at the point of ship- 

 ment. 



What makes this unusual feature of 

 transporting bulky logs 8,000 miles 

 quite feasible is that such unmanufac- 

 tured stock is admitted free, while 

 there is a heavy duty on all manufac- 

 tured wood brought into Australia, the 

 duty on lumber, for instance, being 

 nearly five dollars a thousand board 

 feet. At Melbourne a new mill is 

 being erected to manufacture these 

 logs into dressed stock, such as floor- 

 ing, ceiling, and other products, as 

 well as into lumber. 



In this country it is customary to 

 have new mills conveniently near the 

 place of production, though, with the 

 continually decreasing supply, the 

 larger mills often find it profitable to 

 haul their timber by trams and rail- 

 roads many miles to their saws. 

 The hope of the United States for a 

 steady supply of timber lies in the 

 application of forestry to all timber 

 lands, private and public. 



Jewel Cave The President has just 

 National signed a proclamation 



Monument creating the Jewel Cave 

 National Monument within the Black 



Hills National Forest, South Dakota. 

 This remarkable cave, which is located 

 thirteen miles west and south of Cus- 

 ter, the county seat of Custer County, 

 in a limestone formation, is believed 

 by geologists to be an extinct geyser 

 channel. The national monument will 

 embrace an area of 1,280 acres. 



This cave, which was explored as 

 late as 1900, has been found to consist 

 of a series of chambers connected by 

 narrow passages with numerous gal- 

 leries, the walls of which are encrusted 

 with a magnificent layer of calcite 

 crystal. The opening of the cave is 

 situated in Hell Canyon, the walls of 

 which are high and precipitous. 



The surface of the country in which 

 the cave is located consists of a high 

 rolling limestone plateau about 6,000 

 feet above sea level. 



A Business The Hampden Forestry 

 Forestry Association has been 



Association . - j • -nt tt- 1 

 started m New York, 



not for propaganda purposes, but as 

 a business enterprise. It intends to 

 buy and deal in forest properties and 

 water rights on such properties ; to 

 start a nursery and plant trees ; and to 

 conduct any business, such as farm- 

 ing, that is necessary in connection 

 with the administration of its forest 

 property. 



If the taxation problem could only 

 be solved, forest development would 

 offer an attractive field for invest- 

 ments; and it may do so anyway. 



Not So Miss Mira Lloyd Dock, 



Costly After ^f Fayetteville, Pa., 

 member of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Forestry Commission, 

 said at the recent yearly meeting of 

 the American Civic Association : 



"The cost of establishing a forest 

 reserve and even of maintaining it for 

 some time without expectation of rev- 

 enue is not only relatively but abso- 

 lutely less than the loss from forest 

 fires and from the devastating char- 

 acter of floods originating from waste 

 lands. The work of restoring the 

 forest takes time, but not so much 

 time as is commonly supposed." 



