In gathering up the broken threads of precedent effort at 

 Winslow and in making future efforts there to locate and 

 work minable ore bodies of tin, I feel myself actuated as 

 largely by public interest and desire to serve my State and 

 nation as by the incentive of private gain. If I can duplicate 

 at Winslow the results attained in the development of my 

 molybdenite ore body at Catharine Hill where the reports of 

 highly qualified engineers show that I have blocked out more 

 than ten million tons of millable ore. I shall feel that I have 

 done something for Maine, the State of my residence, the 

 metalliferous resources of which are vast, though largely 

 unrecognized by her people. With the inevitable exhaustion 

 of her timber reserves, it will be necessary for the State more 

 and more to develop its great dowry of mineral resources. 



Bird Stories, by Edith M. Patch with illustrations by 

 Robert J. Simm, the second volume of "Little Gateways to 

 Science," published by the Atlantic Monthly Press of Bos- 

 ton, is at hand and fully up in quality and absorbing inter- 

 est for young people to Miss Patch's Hexapod Stories. This 

 is just the book for Junior Audubon societies and for use by 

 nature teachers in our schools. 



All the Naturalists and Nature lovers of the State should 

 assist in making this a live, interesting journal by sending 

 in notes and longer articles to the several department edi- 

 tors. You must not expect these hard-worked editors to do all 

 the writing. 



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