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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The favored time for moving the elk 

 is in the early spring. By that time the 

 animals born the preceding spring are 

 stout and strong enough to withstand 

 transportation. In the first effort at 

 transplanting elk, twenty-six animals 

 made the journey. Four died from 

 injuries received in the ninety-mile 

 sled haul from Jackson's Hole to St. 

 Anthony, Idaho, where the transship- 

 ment to the railway was effected. One 

 female died a few months later from 

 unhealed fractured ribs, evidently suf- 

 fered on the railway journey. At Sun 

 Dance the other twenty-one elk are now 

 strong and hardy. 



The transference of the elk from the 

 more northern latitudes to the less 



rigorous climates of western Oklahoma, 

 Arizona and New Mexico, it is believed 

 by the biological experts, will result in 

 the rapid propagation of this valuable 

 and desirable game animal. The elk is 

 not subject to disease and after the 

 fourth year the female usually bears 

 twin elk calves annually. 



It is the belief of the biological sur- 

 vey that the elk population of the 

 United States will, through the means 

 now taken to develop herds in many 

 sections of the Rocky mountain region, 

 double within the next three years. 

 Within a decade it is the belief of Chief 

 Palmer, of the bureau, that an approxi- 

 mate restoration of the indigenous 

 herds will be brought about. 



FIRE LOSSES IN WASHINGTON 



^^l/HE Washington Forest Fire As- 

 ^ J sociation, of which George S. 

 ^^^ Long is president and J. L. 

 Bridge chief fire warden, have sent out 

 through their secretary, O. Bystrom, a 

 statement to members from which the 

 following are taken : 



No damage was done in Washington 

 to timber until about the middle of 

 May, when three very hot days came 

 and fires swept over logged-off areas, 

 doing considerable damage to logging 

 equipments and in some instances to 

 green timber. Heretofore May has been 

 regarded as a safe month, so much so 

 that the State law does not include it 

 in the dry and dangerous season, which 



begins June 1. There have been no 

 fires on account of the wet summer 

 since May. 



Instructions were issued to rangers 

 to keep a lookout for trespassers and 

 report any breach of the law promptly 

 to the office. Several reports of that 

 kind were received, and the owner upon 

 whose land the fire occurred was 

 notified. 



The Washington Forest Fire Asso- 

 ciation, as generally known, is a private 

 one. It is made up of timber owners 

 throughout the State. This year the 

 total assessments were only 1 3-4 cents 

 per acre, somewhat less than former 

 years. 



SOME OHIO STATISTICS. 



Ohio had 1.390 factories assigned to the lumber and timber division. The average num- 

 ber of employes was 13,456. The value of the products was $34,597,000. The greatest num- 

 ber of employes in any one section were those engaged in foundry and machine shops, 

 amounting to 64,817. There has been little change in the value of the lumber output in ten 

 years. Sawmiliing has declined, but the output of planing mill's and boxes has increased. 

 There were 411 independent planing mills. 



