ARBORICULTURE 



A EI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 

 Published in the Interest of the International Society of Arboriculture. 



Subscription $1 per annum. 



JOHN P. BROWN, Editor and Publisher. 

 Entered as Second-class Matter January 4th, ItW. 



Vol. VI. 



CONNERSVILLE, INDIANA, JANUARY, I907. 



Number i. 



The Great Lumber Trust of America. 



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the GREAT LUMBER TRUST OF 

 AMERICA. 



That there is a knnber trust in the 

 United States is true beyond a ques- 

 tion, and that it is the greatest of all 

 trusts can scarcely be doubted. 



The Cosmopolitan Magazine con- 

 tians a remarkable article from the 

 pen of Charles P. Norcross which re- 

 lates so much of history that it de- 

 mands the attention of the American 

 public and an investigation by Con- 

 gress. 



The article is headed Weyerhaeuser 

 Richer than John D. Rockefeller, and 

 shows how one man, an alien, in fifty 

 years has become possessed of a hun- 

 dred thousand square miles of the best 

 timber land of the United States, and 

 is cutting the timber as fast as more 

 than a score of the largest sawmills 

 in the world, working night and day, 

 can convert the trees into lumber. 



We extract from the "Cosmopolitan"' 

 some of the statements : 



"Weyerhaeuser's wealth and oppor- 

 tunity grew out of a national crime. 

 One of the most wanton wrongs ever 

 committed in this country has been the 

 spendthrift waste of forests." "It was 

 only recently that the nation awoke to 

 the vandalism that has been going on 

 unhindered for years." "\\'eyerhaeu- 



ser, born in a land where forestry is an 

 exact science, realized that the meth- 

 ods in vogue, left unchecked, would in 

 time exhaust even the prodigal wealth 

 of the land and bring on a timber 

 famine that would cause forest lands 

 to appreciate in value." "The question 

 naturally arises as to how much timber 

 land Weyerhaeuser owns. He won't 

 tell and even his closest lieutenants 

 admit that they can only speculate. 



There are fifty thousand square 

 miles of timber land in the state of 

 Washington alone — thirty-two mil- 

 lion acres." 



"In the territory around Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota and the Mississippi River 

 district he has reigned for years un- 

 disputed. It is estimated by those 

 who have studiedAVeyerhaeuser's wide 

 spread business interests that fully 

 thirty million acres of timber land are 

 under his control — fifty thousand 

 square miles, an area six times as large 

 as the state of New Jersey." 



"Weyerhaeuser is of German birth. 

 Born at Neidersaulheim in southern 

 Germany in 1834, he tilled the vine- 

 yard on the farm until eighteen years 

 of age. In 1852 he decided to emigrate 

 to America." "Was in 1872 that Wey- 

 erhaeuser began to branch out and 

 started in to create the indefinite all- 

 powerful organization which has be- 



