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owing to tlic high price of tiiiiberlands conveniently and profitably. 1 know of 

 at the present time the Company finds no Company in the lumber business in 

 that to buy lands on which there has X'ermont or New Hampshire w'hich at 

 never been any timber cut is unprofit- this time is doing as much to conserve 

 able as there can be no increase of and reproduce their lumber supply as 

 growth on lands on which there has the International Paper Company. To 

 never been any cutting. Lands which my knowledge none of the other lumber 

 have been once cleared and used for companies in these two States arc con- 

 agricultural purposes and have been ducting a nursery or doing any con- 

 abandoned and allowed to grow again siderable planting on waste or cut-over 

 into timber are found to be more profit- lands. If all the lumber operations in 

 able to hold for growth as the growth Vermont and New Hampshire were to 

 on such lands is often very rapid and be conducted as conservatively as the 

 sufficient, at a reasonable purchase price, operations of the International Paper 

 to cover the interest on the purchase Company the next quarter of a century 

 price and moderate taxes. would see a large increase in the amount 

 It is the Company's intention, in this of growing timber in both States. 



division, to at least plant a tree for 



every one cut on their lands and as ^p^per presented at a meeting of the Ver- 



many more as they may be able to plant mont Forestry Association. 



A WOMAN TREE CHOPPER. 



D. Woodbury Bachcldcr of Manchester, N. H., engaged in the luinhcr business at Dania- 

 riscotta, Me., has in his employ a most remarkable woman as regards strength and endurance. 

 She is Mary Gregory, wife of Frank Gregory. 



She first entered the employ of Mr. Bachelder to provide meals for the fourteen men 

 in the camp. This she was able to do and have half a day left in which to engage in the 

 work of the men, and asked permission of Mr. Bachelder to take her place with the choppers. 



Mr. Bachelder gave his consent and ivas astonished to see her perform. She ivielded an 

 axe as expertly as any man in the crezu and made a record one day of chopping, splitting and 

 piling three cords of wood, a task that most men, Iiardened to the service of the woods, 

 are incapable of equalling. Mr. Bachelder says: 



"She is the strongest zvonian I ever saw. No sooner does she fell a tree than she is on 

 top of it, limbing it out, and in every line of work she is the equal of the men in camp. 

 She handles a crosscut sazv with all the skill of a Dian and not a laborer in the camp can 

 surpass her in the ajiiount of work accomplished." 



HISTORIC WASHINGTON TREE. 



A historic old tree, believed to be 500 years old, famous also because it was used during 

 the Civil War as a signal station, and by Confederate sharpshooters, when Gen. Early, in 

 1864, made his attack upon the national capital, has been recently cut down. 



The tree was in perfect condition until struck by lightning recently. It stood about three 

 miles north of the Capitol. Sonie Confederate soldiers killed during the tzvo days' fighting, 

 July 11 a)id 12, 1864, near the capital, zvere buried under it. 



