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Travel Department of the American Express, New York City. The 

 purpose of the tour is primarily educational. The itinerary will in 

 general be a duplication of that of 1917, a choice of nine tours, varying 

 in length from 25 to 58 days, being given. Start may be made from 

 either Boston or Chicago, and the trip will include : Denver, Estes 

 Park, Yellowstone, Glacier Park, Seattle, Mt. Rainier, Portland, Crater 

 Lake, Klamath Lake, San Francisco, Yosemite, Los Angeles, San Di- 

 ego, Riverside, Grand Canyon, with an extension, similar to that 

 given in the previous tour, through Tusayan and Coconino National 

 Forests. 



Paper soles can be made just as durable and waterproof as the 

 best leather soles by the following process : Soak about 30 sheets of 

 paper in oil of turpentine, and then glue together with the following 

 composition : oil of turpentine, Spanish wire, resinous lac, and linseed 

 oil, to which some litharge or protoxide of lead has been added. After 

 being glued together, the packet of paper sheets is put under strong 

 pressure, by which means a strong sheet of cardboard is obtained. 

 The sheet is smoothed and trimmed, and then cut to shape, and makes 

 an excellent substitute for a leather sole. 



Ranger Walter Jones, of the Siskiyou National Forest, has devised 

 an eye protector for the use of lookouts. The device is simple. It 

 is made of cardboard, painted black, fitting over the eyes, and has a 

 long horizontal opening lined with narrow strips which prevent the 

 entrance of light from the sides, also from above and below. A test 

 will be made by several lookouts. Ranger Jones states that his device 

 will successfully protect the eyes against the bright glare in the 

 atmosphere at high elevations. 



Cascara bark stumpage on 800 acres in the Siuslaw is being adver- 

 tised. It is estimated that the yield will aggregate 20,000 pounds of 

 dry cascara bark. The upset price is three cents, being based on the 

 current price paid last year on several small scales. Pealing of cascara 

 bark is a home industry on the Siuslaw and is as a rule done by the 

 settler, with the help of members of his family. Many small sales ag- 

 gregating thousands of pounds, are made annually on the Siuslaw. 



A writer in the Revue dcs Batix et Forcts for February, 1919, ad- 

 vocates the greatly increased use of automobiles as a means of building 

 up the population in the country and in the forests. In his judgment 



