10 THE PASSENG-ER PIGEON IN PENNSYLVANIA 



My feathers shall cover their heads and their legs shall 

 be bare, as my legs are bare." It was believed that 

 if the hair were lost the souls could never reach the 

 Happy Hunting Ground. 



The Forest of Northern Pennsylvania 



(From Altoona Tribune) 



Following is an extract from the introduction to 

 articles on great hemlock forests of western Pennsyl- 

 vania, in ''History of the Lumber Industry in the 

 United States," from the pen of John C. French: 



''When that romantic enthusiast, Ole Bull, with 105 

 followers, founded the ill-starred Norwegian colony, in 

 the summer of 1852, on the waters of Kettle creek, a 

 tributary of the west branch of the Susquehanna, in 

 the southeastern part of Potter county, and devoted so 

 much of his time and energy to building his castle 

 among the pines and hemlocks on the bank of Bull 

 Run, an almost unbroken forest stretched away to the 

 westward for a distance of more than 150 miles. It 

 was chiefly mature hemlock timber and included sev- 

 eral counties, embracing upward of 5,000,000 acres; 

 but there were strips of pine fringing the streams, and 

 ridges of hardwood timber which had succeeded the 

 original growth of evergreens, wherever forest fires or 

 tornadoes had destroyed it or where it had succumbed 

 to the insect blight." 



