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ARBORICULTURE 



come known as the Weyerhaeuser 

 syndicate." Weyerhaeuser was elect- 

 ed president of the Mississippi River 

 Boom and Logging Company. "Some 

 of the powerful companies under his 

 control may be named as follows: 

 Atwood Lumber Company, Rutledge 

 Lumber Company, Mississippi River 

 Logging Company, Northland Pine 

 Company, Pine Tree Lumber Company, 

 Chippewa Valley Logging Company, 

 Musser-Sauntry Company, \A'eyer- 

 haeuser and Denckman, Colquet Lum- 

 ber Compan}^, North Wisconsin Lum- 

 ber Company, Bonner's Ferry Lumber 

 Company, Superior Timber Company." 



Unquestionably the frauds perpe- 

 trated upon the nation by the great 

 lumber corporations are appalling and 

 call for their condemnation by all good 

 citizens. 



However, since the title to these 

 immense tracts of timber land have 

 passed from the nation to the various 

 lumber corporations and, on account of 

 the indifiference of our people and of 

 the statesmen who control legislative 

 affairs, have become legal transfers, it 

 is in most cases too late to be 

 remedied. 



Still there is a power in Congress, 

 if Congress will only act, which can 

 prevent the utter destruction of the 

 remaining forests and make them 

 perpetual. 



It is not the policy of Arboriculture 

 to deal with personalities but rather to 

 appeal for an improvement in methods 

 of lumbering and the restriction of an- 

 nual output of the great mills in order 

 that the forests may be perpetuated, 

 and that this Nation shall not be 

 cursed as are those countries which 

 destroyed their forests. 



National Legislation. 



It is fully realized how almost hope- 

 less is the prospect of securing efificient 

 legislation where Corporate power, 

 such as exists within the great lumber 

 trusts of America possessed of vast 

 wealth dominates legislative bodies 



and even the policy of the govern- 

 ment. 



The old world has learned centuiies 

 ago that forests are essential to ti:e 

 prosperity and well being of the peo- 

 ple, and have enacted wise laws for 

 the government of private owners of 

 forest lands as well as the forests be- 

 longing to the Nation. 



Duty of This Nation. 



The adoption of National laws gov- 

 erning the remaining forests of the 

 country. 



The Reservation of all lands upon 

 which timber is growing, that yet re- 

 main unsold, the trees to be sold 

 under direction of the government. 



Prohibiting the transportation of 

 lumber and timbers from one state to 

 another where these regulations are 

 not complied with. 



Removal of all duties on timber. 



Restricting the output of every 

 quarter section of forest, to make the 

 forests perpetual. 



Requiring the systematic planting 

 of trees where necessary to maintain 

 a perpetual forest. 



SEVERAL REASONS FOR CON- 

 GRESSIONAL ACTION FOR 

 THE CONTROL OF 

 FOREST PROP- 

 ERTY. 



(1) The influence which forests ex- 

 ert on precipitation. 



(2) The influence upon water stor- 

 age ; refrigeration being the best means 

 of retaining water in the mountain 

 valleys. 



(o) Effects of forests upon wind 

 movement. 



(4) Disastrous effects of floods and 

 added costs of levee system caused by 

 forest destruction. 



(5) Menace to river navigation from 

 droughts caused by too rapid melting 

 of snow because of removal of protect- 

 ing woodlands. 



