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professional men, from Maine to Mary- 

 land, will meet at the same time and 

 place. There will be meetings of the 

 New Hampshire Timberland Owners' 

 Association, and representatives present 

 from Forestry Associations in the sev- 

 eral New England States. 



The Governors of Maine and New 

 Hampshire have indicated that they will 

 take part in this Conference. Repre- 

 sentatives of the Forest Service, and 

 other departments of the Government 

 at Washington, connected with the ad- 

 ministration of the Weeks Bill, will 

 explain the progress of the National 

 Forest in the White Mountains. Other 

 topics for discussion will be, the ac- 

 quisition of forests by towns and States 

 in New England, protection of forests 

 from fire, and regulation of the flow of 

 water by forest cover. 



Special consideration will be given to 

 the subject of taxation of forests, and 

 leading experts upon the subject will 

 take part. This is an important subject 

 in New England at this time, because 

 efforts are being made both in Massa- 

 chusetts and New Hampshire to change 

 the Constitution and permit forests to 

 be classified separately from other prop- 

 erty. Reports will be made on recent 

 purchases to save forest lands, both by 

 public and private agencies, including 

 the purchase of the Crawford Notch 

 by the State of New Hampshire. The 

 sessions of the Conference at Bretton 

 Woods will be at the Mt. Pleasant 

 Plouse, that makes a special rate of 

 $3.00 per day to members of the Con- 

 ference. The Mt. Washington Hotel 

 and the Deer Park Hotel also make 

 special rates. A cordial invitation is 

 extended to all who are interested. 



WOOD PRESERVING AND THE LUMBER INDUSTRY 



'T THE annual meting of Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers 

 Association, E. A. Sterling, a 

 forest engineer, of Philadelphia, and 

 President of the American Wood Pre- 

 servers Association, in a brief address, 

 said: 



"You all know that the wood pre- 

 serving industry comes into contact 

 with the lumber industry, and overlaps 

 it at many points. The wood preserv- 

 ing industry is growing faster than 

 many of us can keep up with. In 1900 

 there were 11 plants in the country, 

 the last figures were 101 plants, with a 

 growth of 120 per cent in the number 

 last year. The value of the product 

 represented at present is $40,000,000, 

 and the gross amount of wood treated 

 in 1910 was 110,000,000 cubic feet. 



"This is of interest to you, first of all 

 because preservation takes certain 

 woods and species which you have a 

 difficulty in finding a market for. In 

 the East it takes beech, birch, maple 

 and red oak for cross ties and like pur- 

 poses. In the South it takes sap pine, 

 gum and so on down the line. It is of 



great importance because in a way it 

 means the opening of new markets. 



"In this connection there is one thing 

 on which we ought to cooperate, and 

 that is inspection and grades. To my 

 mind there is a distinct gap between 

 the official grades of your various al- 

 lied associations and the requirements 

 of the consumer for treated material. 

 This has come up in the case of every 

 railroad which operates a treating 

 plant. Say they have a use for long- 

 leaf pine for various purposes. They 

 want to get a pine which will treat 

 better than the heart pine, but will have 

 practically the same strength. In none 

 of the existing specifications is any- 

 thing which meets their need. The 

 American Maintenance of Way Asso- 

 ciation has been working on this. I 

 think it would be well to appoint a 

 committee from the Wood Preservers' 

 Association to cooperate with some of 

 your committees on this question of 

 specifications for creosoted material. 



"There is one other thing, though it 

 is still in the future. You are up 

 against the fire question. Take 



