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eruptions were mildly explosive. Cin- 

 ders were blown out, but settled close 

 to the crater building up the conical 

 mounds. In some cases small bombs 

 were ejected. Great numbers of bombs 

 4 to 5 inches in diameter were found 

 in the sides of the Trinchera volcano, 

 but even here the action seems to have 

 been relatively mild for the cinders and 

 bombs are arranged in evenly laminated 

 beds which are steeply inclined in the 

 sides of the cone as indicated in the 

 illustration. 



There are no known data by which 

 one can compute in years the time that 



has elapsed since the last eruption, but 

 geologically speaking, the formation of 

 the volcanic cones, like Horseshoe and 

 Capulin, was the last event of the region, 

 and although volcanic forces may have 

 been inactive for a hundred years or 

 more, it is quite impossible to know 

 whether the fires are extinct or only 

 slumbering, and as one stands on the 

 rim of a crater and contemplates the 

 result of the titanic forces so recently 

 in operation, one can scarcely escape 

 the gruesome thought that these forces 

 may be only slumbering and may 

 awaken at any moment. 



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^~~|r^N its annual report, recently is- 

 l^sued, the Society for Protection 

 ^"^^of New Hampshire Forests tells 

 what it has accomplished in the ten 

 years of of its existence. It says: 



"The Society takes much satisfaction 

 in the results of its ten years' work. 

 While the problem of saving New 

 Hampshire's forests for their greatest 

 use, by adopting a saner method of 

 "harvesting the product, is still largely 

 unsolved, yet we begin the second 

 decade with far more hope and confi- 

 dence than at the time of organization. 

 We have helped to secure legislation at 

 Washington and at Concord, which 

 gives the forests of the state more 

 nearly adequate fire protection, stimu- 

 lates reforestation, encourages careful 

 management, and reserves completely 

 some of the places of special attraction. 

 Ten years of educational work has been 

 faithfully done. It is possible to be- 

 lieve that the time may not be far dis- 

 tant when the annual harvest of tim- 

 ber in New Hampshire will not exceed 

 the annual growth, and when large 

 areas of timber, valuable for scenic 

 beauty and for protecting the flow of 

 streams, are permanently safe from or- 

 dinary destructive lumbering and from 

 the ravages of soil-consuming fires. 



"The reorganization of the State For- 

 estry Commission was one of the first 

 and most important objects. The So- 

 ciety was organized because a few men 

 and women, who met at the call of Gov- 



ernor Rollins ten years ago, were not 

 satisfied with the progress of the for- 

 estry movement in New Hampshire. 

 With the rapid development of the pa- 

 per and pulp industry, forests in the 

 mountains were being swept away with 

 no efTort within the state to save them. 

 Few realized the importance of saving 

 timber as a source of supply for the 

 future needs of a growing population; 

 fewer believed that the mountain for- 

 ests could be protected in a manner to 

 prevent the rapid run-off of streams 

 over areas sufBciently large to affect the 

 water-powers and navigation. 



"The new Society at once undertook 

 an educational campaign. It employed 

 a forester who spoke at meetings of all 

 kinds throughout the state, showing by 

 photographs and lantern slides the act- 

 ual conditions, and pointing out what 

 other states were beginning to accom- 

 plish. With the appointment of Mr. 

 Robert P. Bass, now Governor, and Mr. 

 Robert E. Faulkner, of Keene, to the 

 Forestry Commission, and with the co- 

 operation of General Tolles, of Nassau, 

 who was already a member, an efficient 

 and progressive administration of the 

 State Forestry Department was 

 brought about. Legislation, advocated 

 by the Society, was passed, securing the 

 appointment of a state forester. The 

 fire laws were rewritten. Co-operation 

 from the Federal Forest Service was 

 secured. 



"From its first year the Society ad- 



