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shingles for instance. I believe the 

 time is coming when a preservative 

 treatment, combined with a fireproofing 

 treatment, is going to be developed for 

 use by you as lumbermen. Although 

 their shingles perhaps do not need a 

 preservative treatment particularly, 

 suppose the Pacific coast shingle manu- 



facturers could advertise a preserved 

 and fireproofed shingle, and push it 

 as the cypress people are pushing their 

 product in the magazines, wouldn't that 

 counteract this movement against 

 shingles? I believe it entirely possible 

 to combine a preservative treatment of 

 lumber with a fireproofing treatment 

 for use under certain conditions," 



STATE NEWS 



Minnesota 



Active opposition has developed to the bill 

 recently introduced in Congress by Repre- 

 sentative Lindbergh of Minnesota, which 

 would allot 45,000 acres of land in the na- 

 tional reserve, near Cast Lake, to the White 

 Oak Point band of Chippewa Indians. The 

 State Forestry Service is up in arms over 

 this attempt to cut down the area of the for- 

 est reserve, and will make every effort to 

 have the bill defeated. 



"I do not know whether this band of In- 

 dians is deserving of further allotments or 

 not," said Forester W. T. Cox. "But I do 

 know that they should not be given land in 

 this reserve. The land is poor for agricultural 

 purposes, but it has fine pine trees on it. 

 The stand is good and the park is beautiful. 

 There is land worth ten times as much as 

 this north of Red Lake. If these Indians 

 are to be given allotments it should be there, 

 and not in the reserve. 



"The timber has been cut according to 

 scientific rules in there. There is a good 

 second growth that is being protected, and 

 the reserve is being given the best of forest 

 fire protection. It is also valuable to regu- 

 late the flowage of the upper waters of the 

 Mississippi. There is no occasion to give 

 these Indians land in there, and it should 

 not be done." 



"Washington 



In the last seven years the State of Wash- 

 ington has appropriated $153,950 for forest 

 fire prevention and this year a fund of $40,- 

 243.04 is available, says State Forester and 

 Fire Warden J. R. Welty, who summarizes 

 work done by the State in protecting the 

 timber wealth and what is to be done this 

 season. 



Mr. Welty believes thj State should make 

 an annual appropriation of SlOO.OOO for for- 

 est fire prevention as good insurance on tim- 

 ber valued at $400,000,000 in Washington. 

 The work of the State Forestry Service for 

 its seven years of existence, he says, has 

 saved 6,000,000,000 feet of timber to the 



State that otherwise would have been de- 

 stroyed — timber valued at $9,000,000. 



New Hampshire 



The Board of Forestry Commissioners has 

 issued a circular in relation to reforesting 

 waste and cutover land, which is being sent 

 broadcast throughout the State. 



The subjects covered in the circular are 

 the increase of forest planting in New 

 Hampshire, tax abatement on land planted 

 to trees, State forest nurseries, kinds of 

 trees to plant, how to secure trees for for- 

 esting lands, list of trees that can be ob- 

 tained from the forestry commission, the 

 preparation of land, the care of trees and 

 the care of plantations. 



Wisconsin 



Plans for protection against forest fires 

 were discussed at the first quarterly meeting 

 of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association recently. 



Timber land owners will meet in Wausau, 

 Wis., soon to discuss plans for protection 

 and adopt a system similar to the one used 

 by the Forest Protective Association of 

 Timber Owners of Northern Michigan. 



A suggestion for a national forest prod- 

 ucts exposition was approved. In all prob- 

 ability it will be held in Chicago or some 

 other large city of the Middle West. 



The July meeting will be held in Holton, 

 Mich., the date of which has not been defin- 

 itely fixed. 



Utah 



O. W. Butler, of the district forestry ser- 

 vice, having in charge the silvi-culture de- 

 partment, has gone to Boise, Idaho, where 

 he will join District Forester E. A. Sher- 

 man and Assistant District Forester Timothy 

 Hoyt. 



From Boise the three foresters will pro- 

 ceed to Starkey, Idaho, where they will meet 

 with the supervisors and rangers of that dis- 

 trict. 



