486 Forestry Quarterly. 



At the meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 Mr. Lewis Doster, Secretary, it was stated that in the last year 

 there had been a loss of nearly 40 per cent, in business as a result 

 of the substitution of paper, fiber, and pulp boards in box making. 



The annual loss to the State of Maine through failure to utilize 

 properly its wealth of timber is estimated by Fred. A. Gilbert of 

 The Great Northern Paper Co., at over $10,000,000 a year on 

 five of the most common kinds of timber, spruce, pine, fir, hem- 

 lock, and cedar. In addition to this the State is slowly losing its 

 principal asset, the standing timber. Only a little more than one- 

 half of what the State is capable of producing is marketed. The 

 rest goes to make up the losses due to waste, decay, fire, and 

 wind. 



Mr. Edwin A. Ziegler resigned on October 1st as Chief of 

 Computing in the Forest Service, to become an instructor in the 

 Pennsylvania State Forest Academy at Mont Alto, Pa. 



Mr. John M. Nelson, Jr., who had been Assistant Chief of 

 Wood Preservation in the Forest Service, was furloughed on 

 October 1st to accept a position with the Philadelphia & Reading 

 Coal & Iron Company at Pottsville, Pa. 



Mr. E. T. Allen, District Forester at Portland, Oregon, has 

 accepted a position with the Weyerhausers. Mr. C. S. Chapman 

 will succeed him. 



Mr. S. N. Spring, who has been working as a consulting for- 

 ester since leaving the Forest Service last February, has accepted 

 the post of State Forester of Connecticut. He will be assisted by 

 Mr. W. O. Filley. 



