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AKIJORIITLTURE 



Tree Culture Ikicts. 



OI'INIUX UK A KAILWAY PRESIDENT. 



Mr. Marvin Ilu^hitt, President of the 

 L'hicago »t Northwestern Railway, said to the 

 Editor of Akhokici'LTURE: 



The forests are being rapidly wasted and 

 all owing to our system of government. We 

 need a strong central power. In Europe a 

 tree cannot be removed without another 

 being planted in its stead. 



Our national government has not the 

 authority to compel the proper management 

 of forests, while the States are dominated 

 by those who think their interests are ad- 

 verse to a forest system. 



Timber owners are in a hurry to realize 

 all they can immediately and cut bushes and 

 all small growths. Instead of this they 

 should cut matured trees and leave young 

 growths for future use. 



I have seen poles of cedar, pine and 

 hemlock, four and five inches through, cut 

 for rafting, which should have been left to 

 grow into lumber. 



Our lumbermen are too wasteful, and 

 should be educated to realize the value of 

 forests as an investment. 



The artesian well has heen the salvation of the 

 semi-arid portion of South Dakota, the supply of 

 water drawn from them being ample to supple- 

 ment the deficiency in rainfall. Thus far there 

 is no sign of failure, in spite of the heavy drafts 

 made upon the subterranean rivers. The same 

 reports come from localities in the regions 

 farther west, where there is little rainfall. 

 There is .sometimes a tendency to drought dur- 

 ing some .seasons of the year in this and ad- 

 joining .States, and artesian wells might possibly 

 be made useful in Indiana. It would be a great 

 thing to be able to get a supply of water from 

 the depths of the earth when the clouds deny 

 it. — The Indianapolix Daily Journal. 



Seven hundred miles from the James River 

 Valley, of South Dakota, the Missouri river 

 pa.sses over a ledge of porous sandstone, 

 and loses a large portion of its V(dume, 

 which enters the earth and follows this 

 stratum, emerging in theDakotas. The water 

 rises 200 feet above the surface, so great 

 is the force, the head being high in the 

 base of the Rocky mountains. While it is 



not likely that this stratum extends into 

 Indiana, yet subterranean rivers having 

 their source elsewhere may supply this State 

 with abundant water for irrigation. 



The proi)erty owner of Chicago, who gives 

 his views in the Tribune, voices the sentiment 

 of thousands of helpless citizens whose 

 property is mutilated by orders of some 

 cheap and inefficient official. The time will 

 come when linemen will be recjuired to 

 obtain wTitten permission from the owner. 

 Speed the day! 



TREE-PLANTINCx USELESS. 



Chicago, Jan. 28. — [Editor of the Tribune.] 

 In Saturday's issue your editorial favored the 

 planting of trees in yards and along the walks, 

 claiming it would adorn and enhance in value 

 property thus improved. But why do it? I have 

 given time, care, and money for nearly twenty 

 years for trees along the sidewalk, and when 

 they are in good growth the telephone, tele- 

 graph, or some other private user of public 

 streets goes to the City Hall and gets a permit 

 to cut the heads and branches off the trees. 

 You have no redress, and the trees look worse 

 than if no trees were there. Why should people 

 beautify the streets to be destroyed whenever a 

 cheap official chooses to help a private corpora- 

 tionsave money at the property-owner's expense? 



PROrKltTV-OwNKK. 



THEY WANT TO SAVE THE TREES. 



Sunday the residents living on Euclid road 

 obtained an injunction from Judge Phillips, 

 against the County Commissioners to restrain 

 them from cutting down the shade trees along 

 the road where the county is making improve- 

 ments. A motion to make the order permanent 

 was to have been argued before Judge Phillips 

 Tuesday morning, but on consent of the Com- 

 missioners the case was pas.sed until PViday. 

 The restraining order will remain in effect until 

 that t\me. —Clevelaiiil Leader. 



Time was when the finest avenue of 

 trees in any city of the world w'as Euclid 

 Avenue. Cleveland. Elliott's infiuence had 

 caused those trees to be planted, and their 

 fame spread to every city of Europe. 



Cheap officials destroyed every one of 

 those trees, and the street now is as bare 



