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of free citizens will do away with the unrest and bring harmony into 

 the industry. Unless the private timber owners realize their obligations 

 and responsibilities in the permanent development of the forest re- 

 sources, public ownership must ultimately become the only solution of 

 this labor unrest. 



Private Forestry 



Some years back the territory of the Chateaugay Ore and Iron Com- 

 pany, in the Adirondacks, was pointed out as one of the worst exam- 

 ples of what forest destruction and creation of waste by ax and fire 

 could do to mar the scenery. It is gratifying to note that for a number 

 of years the Delaware and Hudson Company and its subsidiary com- 

 panies — the Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company and the Northern New 

 York Development Company — under present management have tried 

 to make amends by supporting a Woodlands Department, which is 

 charged not only with exploitation, but with the systematic handling 

 of the woods interests, including reforesting operations on a compara- 

 tively large scale. 



Lately the Society of Northeastern Foresters held their annual sum- 

 mer meeting at Bluff Point, partly as guests of the company, as re- 

 ported in another place of this issue. In this connection we were privi- 

 leged to inspect a progress report of the company's Superintendent of 

 Woodlands, Mr. H. R. Bristol, from which we extract the following 

 facts : 



It appears that the property mainly involved, located in Franklin and 

 Clinton counties, New York, covers approximately 110,000 acres, of 

 which 80,000 acres are still revenue-producing. In the past, revenue 

 has been mainly derived from the sale of pulpwood, under the articles 

 of a long-term contract, and which in the last four years has yielded an 

 average annual gross revenue of $140,000. The contract terminates 

 this year, and the immediate future income will be confined to small 

 sales of hardwood and possibly aspen. Cutting regulations have not- 

 been possible under the terms of the contract above mentioned except 

 in the matter of closer utilization. 



Small beginnings, however, in reforestation were made more than a 

 decade ago, but little was accomplished until 191 5, and the report in 

 this respect refers mainly to the last three years. 



The expenses of the Department average about $120,000 per year, 

 of which around 10 per cent is for supervision. Some $20,000 in all- 

 were spent for line and timber surveys ; for topography the United 



