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when over 450,000 people were accommodated in the hotels during 

 the season, over 36,000 people being engaged as help, and the receipts 

 ran to $8,725,000, which is a sum about equal to the combined wages 

 and stumpage values of that year's lumber production in the Adiron- 

 dacks, and it is suggested that the lumber industry "amounts to prob- 

 ably not more than 20 per cent of the business of the Adirondacks." 



It appears that the referendum to the people of the provision for 

 additional purchase of State lands was an alternative to a proposition 

 to regulate cutting of timber on private lands. Some arguments in 

 favor of the latter proposition are also advanced. The vote on the 

 former proposition showed a favorable majority principally in Greater 

 New York, and in the whole State not more than 150,000. 



There are four timber protective associations in northern Idaho. 

 The annual reports of two of these are before us. 



The Potlatch Timber Protective Association in Idaho, in existence 

 since 1907, controlling 330,000, and patrolling 600,000 acres, reports, 

 owing to most favorable weather conditions, only one fire without 

 damage (an old burn), put out promptly at little expense; the total 

 assessment being 2j4 cents per acre as against 6 cents in 1915, and 

 25^ cents in 1914; the total expenditure of. the year being $13,680 

 as against $100,217 in 1914, when over $82,000 were spent in putting 

 out fires, and the patrolling absorbed more than double the expendi- 

 ture for that item in 1916. The report explains the difficulties which 

 the association has repeatedly experienced in collecting the assessment 

 from one of its members, the State, which owns some 500,000 acres 

 of good timber. With the assistance of Weeks law funds and the 

 Forest Service, a relief map of a part of the association's territory 

 as an aid in detecting, locating, and controlling forest fires, was con- 

 structed last summer, and this has created an enthusiasm for such 

 map work for other purposes. The report contains a very detailed 

 account of how such a map was made with costs — namely, 4 1/3 cents 

 per acre. 



The Coeur d'Alene Timber Protective Association, in Idaho, in 

 its eleventh year, reports for the year 1916 24 fires (of which three 

 from lightning), most of which were easily extinguished and did 

 little or no damage; only one destroying 80,000 feet of white pine. 

 This was, however, in an unusually favorable season. The actual 

 cost of the season's operation was shghtly above 2 cents of productive 

 acreage, the assessment being 1 cent per acre over all. 



