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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Opening the Gates of the Dam. 



here the movie operator took a daring chance in order to catch the gush of water when the gates 



of the big mindoka dam in idaho were opened. 



portrayed on several thousand feet of before poptdar audiences throughout 



film. the country is bound to make the general 



The presentation of these films at the public more familiar with our Govern- 



Panama-Pacific Exposition, and later, ment and its functions. 



Grow Half an Inch a Day. 



Observations at the Utah Experiment Station show that aspen sprouts from good stumps 

 attain a maximum height growth during the summer season of over one-half inch per day. 



Coyote Hunting Profits. 



Nine hundred coyote pelts were submitted to the Lincoln County, Wyoming, Woolgrowers' 

 Association, at its recent meeting, for the bounty of $2.50 apiece, offered by the association. 



Wood Pulp Timber on the Teton Forest. 



The Forest Service has just completed an estimate of the timber of the Teton Forest, adjoining 

 the Yellowstone Park on the south, and finds that it contains sufficient spruce, fir, and pine timber 

 suitable for wood pulp to supply a mill of 150- ton a day capacity. Power for such a mill can be 

 supplied by Pine or Rainey Creek, tributaries of the Snake River, and the Snake River will trans- 

 port the bolts of wood from forest to mill. 



