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present annual cut in California. With stumpage at a hypothetical 

 value of $10 per thousand feet, this annual product will be worth 371/2 

 million dollars. The forests will be operating at their maximum 

 capacity in producing timber, so far as that is consistent with the other 

 two main purposes, for the timber will then all be needed. We may 

 not use very much of it in the form of lumber as it is used today, but 

 we will have other important uses for it, such as for paper, alcohol to 

 drive our airships, breakfast food, etc. Of course, to secure anything 

 like the maximum yield and to permit such forestry at all a thorough 

 system of protection throughout the State will be in operation. Pro- 

 tection will be easier then than it is now, for the sentiment of the 

 people will be entirely favorable to it. They will realize how important 

 it is. It will also be easier because the forests will have been man- 

 aged long enough to make them far more easily accessible and to 

 get rid of much of the dangerous debris. The management of the 

 forest industry from the handling of the seedlings to the conversion 

 of the product into useful articles for mankind will be on the highest 

 technical plane. 



The 6 million horse power estimated to be available will have been 

 developed from the waters flowing in the State, and perhaps with the 

 best of forest management this amount may even have been in- 

 creased materially. It will move the trains on the railways; it will 

 heat the houses ; it will pump the water for irrigation ; and irrigation 

 itself will be far more extensive than at present — thanks to better 

 utilization of streams now flowing, to pumping water from under- 

 ground storage places, and to the better regulated streamflow. With 

 California developed so intensively, the use of the forests in prevent- 

 ing floods will be of the highest importance. 



While California is already the greatest recreation State in the 

 Union, and now derives a good share of its income from tourist 

 travel (not less than $25,000^000 per year is said to be brought into 

 southern California alone), it will be far more important in the future. 

 A wonderful highway system will exist then, the logical develop- 

 ment of the splendid system now being brought into existence. The 

 trees planted along these roads will make them far more attractive 

 than they are now. While the highways will be tremendously impor- 

 tant economically and in attracting tourists, an enlightened public will 

 recognize that the forests are still more important, and the people 

 will spend money freely in their protection and development. Millions 



