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manufaeturiiij; plant in Selni.i or in tin- 

 surrounding ten-itory. Tlu'.v luive a mod 

 ern plant here at Seliua, oniployiug sixty- 

 live men witli a weel^ly pay roll of l>e- 

 tween .$(iOO and $700. and an annual output 

 of about 8,lHK).0()0 feet. Tlie company li.is 

 jvLSt put into operation .1 steam logsini; 

 plant about six miles from tlie city and 

 are biiildiuf; a line of railroad into tlic 

 tract of timber at an expense of about 

 .$10,000. The ])lant at Selnia comprises a 

 single band mill with the most modern 

 machinery for liandling logs and lumlier; 

 they are located right on tlie l)nnks of tlic 

 Alabama Uiver. and have shipping facili- 

 ties over three lines of railroad, north, 

 south, east and west. At the plant they 

 have a log jiond to facilitate the handling 

 of logs from the cars to the mills. This 

 pond will have a storage capacity of one 

 million feet. The company owns various 

 tracts of timberlands above the city on 

 the Alabama River, and stimipage privi- 

 leges on the various railroads entering the 

 city, so that their present aggregate supply 

 of logs will reach close to .'lO.OOO.tlOO feet. 

 and this, with their tx)ntinued purchases 

 of logs. insure.«« for them a permanent 

 business for a number of years to come. 

 They deal in nothing liut hardwood lum- 

 ber, oak. ash. poplar cyjiress .ind hickory. 

 The business is a permanent one. It has 

 taken root and has become a permanent 

 factor in the provsperity of the city in 

 which it is located. .1. 1'. Schuh is tlie 

 president of the company. .1. \V. Thomp- 

 son vice-president and A. T. Miller, secre- 

 tan' and treasurer. 



At the midsummer meeting of the .Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association at Minneapolis. 

 August 25 and 2<i, .Mr. '1". H. Walker of 

 Minneapolis, spoke as follows: 



"At present rate of consumption, the 

 amount of the timlier now standing will 

 be cousuukmI within tliirty-tive years. 



"In the near future, substitutes for wood 

 and curtailed consunii)tion. l)etter forestry 

 methods and reproduction will be necessi- 

 tated. 



"Forests arc all in sighl and subject to 

 general estimates differing materially from 

 iron, coal and <'oaloil — building stone, etc. 

 where the supply is under cover and the 

 ^»tent unknown, but practically inexhaust- 

 ible. 



"Responsiliility of lunil)ernien for wasle- 

 ful methods should rest equally upon pub- 

 lic generally .-md on the government. 



"Our vast hardwood forests have been 

 cup away and in large part burned in log 

 heaps by the pioneer settlers in clearing 

 their lands for cultivation. 



"National, st.-ite and count.v governments 

 li.-ive autliorizcd ami protected all frontier 

 settlers and loggers in wasting our forests. 



"Homestead law and iire-emption anil 

 timber and stone act and the lan<l sales 

 ill forty-acre tracts at pulilic auction scat- 

 tered the ownership of timber lands. Luin 

 bermen could not secure snlKcient areas 

 of timber to make iH-onomical logging 

 operations or apply projier forestry nietli 

 ods. 



"For purchasing lands of entrymen. 

 lumbermen have been ('ensured and eriji- 

 cised by thus doins what the laws un 

 donbtfKlly anticipatiMl. \'iolations of the 

 l;iws are exceptions, not tlie rule. 



"Premature county organizations and 

 heavy taxes on unproductive land where 

 owners were non-residents and derived no 

 benefit from the tax have aided in denud- 

 ing the forests to escape this burden, 



"When lands in our pineries were de- 

 nuded of timber they were wanted for cul- 

 tivation, which fact has made counties, 

 state and nation more indifferent as to 

 the preservation of forests. 



"Through government limitations Ameri- 

 can timber owners liold less than 14 per 

 cent of the remaining suppl.v. 



"Methods of disposing of public timlier 

 lands have placed lumbermen at great dis- 

 advantage. Economical methods could 

 not be applied to scattered tracts. Cana- 

 dian system of large limits and light taxes 

 liave given them great advantages, 



"In the western forests, conditions are 

 much more favorable, better forestry meth- 

 ods, more practicalile and profitable and 

 (■ontiiiue<l supply of timber can be pro- 

 duced. Protection against fire can be suc- 

 cessfully applied by clearing away all dry 

 materials from around each of the trees. 

 Large trees may be cut. leaving mucli 

 greater numbers of smaller trees for 

 growth and reforestation. .\s the lands 

 •■ire not valuable for agricultural purposes, 

 taxes will be made light on partially cur, 

 lands, so that continued growth can be 

 maintained. I'rotecting forests by at- 

 tempting to keep the fires from running 

 is not a success. When fires are kept 

 from running for long periods damage 

 when it does run is greater than the ag- 

 gregate of intermediate burnings and fires 

 cannot be entirely prevented. 



"Timber permits by government should 

 be on a large scale to make logging and 

 reforesting profitable and economical, 



"A large ])roportioii of our lumber sup- 

 ply in later years must come from private 

 tiinl>er cultivation on individual holdings, 



"The forestry department will become 

 increasingly more and more important— 

 .ind should be given large authority and 

 means to carry on the work and for re- 

 foresting on a large scale as rapidly as it 

 proves jiracticable," 



Scranton. Miss,, is the recipient of a big 

 enterprise as a result of the consolidation 

 ot the Oulf JIanufacturing Trade and 

 Transportation Company and the Pasca- 

 goula S.iw Mill Company. The business 

 will be operated under the first mentioned 

 ii.ime, wliicli is capitalized at $.300,000, and 

 otHcered as follows: President. ??. F. Mil- 

 ler; vice-president, \i. S. Pickett: secretary 

 :ind treasurer, ,Iolni .1. Maclieca; superin- 

 tendent, J, M, Tindel. The pur|iose of the 

 company Is to cmistruct .ind o|ierate saw 

 mill, furniture, s;isli. door and liliiid, and 

 other woodworking factories, and in pur 

 snance of this purpose they have actinired 

 options on IS.tKio acres of hardwoo<l tim- 

 licrlands in .lackson i-ounty. They will 

 ininiediately begin tlie erection of a band 

 s.-nv mill, :iiiil later on a furniture factory. 



C»I, W. H. Dutton of Racine, Wis., is 

 spending a few weeks at Carlsbad, X. .\I., 

 ,ittenipting to regain his health. 



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