Miscellaneous. 379 



Saw mill $422,812,061 



Planing mill 107,622,519 



Timber camps 36,398,404 



Quantity of sawed lumber, 1,000 feet, b.m 35,084,166 



Value of same $390,489,873 



AMERICAN FORESTRY: A NEW CAREER. 



The young forester has prospects of a salary that equals, or slightly 

 exceeds, that of the college professor, and the location of his home will 

 usually make his necessary living expenses less than those of the teacher. 

 Within a decade he may be in the employ of a railroad company and 

 have charge of many pieces of woodland which he will be able to reach 

 easily by rail. He may secure a position as a State Forester or as a 

 member of a State corps. This is a promising field. Several of our 

 forested States are coming into the possession of abandoned stump lands, 

 and the care of them requires a forester who can supervise the work, 

 look after the public interests and disseminate information among the 

 people. The State of New York is even buying up hundreds of square 

 miles of woodland to add to .its forest reserve. The United States Gov- 

 ernment has a constantly increasing need for men. The public holdings 

 are tremendous. For each of the last three years the forestry appropria- 

 tion has been doubled and the work that is being done for the private 

 citizens is growing as rapidly as are the appropriations. These govern- 

 ment foresters are in attendance in the department -at Washington dur- 

 ing the winter, but with the coming of spring they are scattered through- 

 out the United States. They go to the woods of New England, of the 

 South and of the West, and return in the fall to make out their reports in 

 the office. Eventually a large part o"f our government force will be sta- 

 tioned in various parts of the West nearer to the center of the greatest 

 activity in public forestry. 



Another class of positions will be with the lumber and paper com- 

 panies. From all sections of the country these companies are inquiring 

 into the methods of conservative forestry, and, as has been shown, some 

 are already employing foresters, while others will probably follow their 

 example. The men so employed will spend a large part of the time in 

 the forests under their care; but in the winter season some of them, 

 busy with their office work, will be located for a few months in the town 

 or city headquarters of their corporation. This will enable their children 

 to have the advantage of better schooling than that afiforded by a paper 

 factory town or a sawmill town. 



