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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Massachusetts 



To encourage the reforestation of Essex 

 County is a task on which W. P. Dilling- 

 ham is now at work. He is assistant secre- 

 tary of the Massachusetts Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, an organization that hopes to have 

 1,000,000 acres of now waste land planted 

 to trees. 



Mr. Dillingham would have each town and 

 city convert the waste land about it into 

 a forest, and thus insure fuel and building 

 material for the future. He declares that 

 each town could actually net from $3 to 

 $5 annually from each acre of such forests 

 and backs up this statement with figures 

 showing that Baden, a European city, with 

 a population of 16,000, has a forest of more 

 than 10,576 acres, which nets $6.25 per acre 

 each year, while Zurich, Switzerland, is 

 said to clear $12 per acre annually from 

 its town forest. 



"Our manufacturers," says Mr. Dilling- 

 ham, "are paying from $2 upwards more per 

 thousand feet for timber imported from 

 other states than they have to pay for the 

 home grown product. If our now waste 

 land was put under sylviculture, it would in- 

 crease the lumber industry in the state by 

 an amount netting from three to five mil- 

 lions of dollars annually and furnishing em- 

 ployment to thousands of our citizens." 



Florida 



On the grove of O L. Whidden, one of the 

 prosperous fruit growers out east of 

 Arcadia, are to be seen some grape-fruit 

 trees of immense size. These trees were 

 planted nearly forty years ago. They meas- 

 ure from sixteen to twenty-four inches in 

 diameter and from six and seven feet in 

 circumference. The trees bear each year 

 from twenty-five to forty boxes of delicious 

 fruits. Located as they are, and being old 

 and hardv, they went through the freeze of 

 '94 and '95 without any material damage. 



North, and will have the distinction, too, of 

 crossing the Red River of the South at 

 Denison, which is the largest Southern tribu- 

 tary of the Mississippi, the Father of 

 Waters. The great transcontinental boule- 

 vard will also follow along the Missouri 

 River, where the landscape is unsurpassed, 

 beginning its stretch across Oklahoma at 

 Caney, Kan., thence to Denison, Tex., where 

 its course will be wended to the balmy 

 waters of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston, 

 entering that delightful Southern port over 

 the new concrete causeway. 



Texas. 



New York 



Oscar Bravo, a representative of the Chil- 

 ean Government, who is making a tour of 

 the United States and various other coun- 

 tries for the purpose of securing information 

 relative to Forestry matters, has called on 

 the New York State Conservation Commis- 

 sion. Commissioner Bravo secured a large 

 fund of valuable information in regard to 

 New York State's forestry work, which is 

 far in advance of sister States. The Chilean 

 representative was so well pleased with what 

 he learned here, that he decided to make a 

 tour of the Adirondacks to look over the 

 State lands, nurseries and reforestation 

 operations. He is especially interested in 

 New York's forest fire protective system and 

 will give that careful study. 



Fish and Game Commissioner of Alabama 

 John H. Wallace has written the Conserva- 

 tion Commission of New York State advis- 

 ing it that the State of Alabama "contem- 

 plates the enactment of measures conserv- 

 ing the forests, mines, waterways and kin- 

 dred natural resources," and that it has in 

 view "the creation of a conservation com- 

 mission to have supervision and charge of 

 all matters relating to the natural rights of 

 our people." He asks the New York Com- 

 mission for copies of the New York State 

 Laws bearing on this matter. The request 

 was cheerfully complied with. 



The Etude Club, composed of the leading 

 society w-omen of Denison, will go down in 

 history as the first organization of women 

 in Texas to take up the plan, originating at 

 Sapalpa, Okla., for the planting in Texas of 

 pecan or other nut bearing trees along the 

 right-of-way of the Canada-to-the-Gulf high- 

 way, which will extend from Winnipeg, Can- 

 ada, to Galveston, Texas, passing through 

 the various places of interest and principal 

 cities of North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and 

 will rival in symmetry, length and beauty, 

 when completed, any public pike in the 

 world. 



The magnificent highway will follow closely 

 the banks of the beautiful Red River of the 



Oregon 



A Salem (Ore.) dispatch says: "Lightning, 

 according to advices received by the Forestry 

 Department, has been a great factor in pro- 

 ducing forest fires this season. Advices re- 

 ceived today from field men in Klamath 

 County state that five fires were started dur- 

 ing the last storm there, and advices from 

 Eastern Oregon say that many were started 

 there in the same way. The wardens, how- 

 ever, had but little trouble in controlling 

 them, and little damage was done. So far 

 the damage resulting from forest fires has 

 been light." 



