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of Pueblo. It is full of beauty and grandeur. There are very many 

 trees, and they are beautiful. We have all kinds of pines, and as 

 you go through that region you find it is a perfect paradise of the 

 most beautiful trees you ever beheld, and you will find there the 

 beautiful silver robed tree of the Rockies. Men are sneaking in 

 there, and if they are not checked they will soon denude that region 

 of those magnificent trees. Arizona has been almost desolated on 

 account of this greed. This is called the Wood Mountain Valley 

 Reserve. I prepared a paper which I sent on to Washington, and 

 they have acknowledged the receipt of it! This paper gives a de- 

 scription of the park and the reasons why it should be opened. It 

 is most accessible to all of the great prairie states. If we wish to 

 go to the Yellowstone Park we have to go down into our pockets 

 to the tune of about $125.00, and this park can be reached from 

 Omaha at an expense of $20.00 for the round trip. Another ad- 

 vantage in having that park south of us is that people living in that 

 sunny climate will not have to go from 100 above to 

 where they find the water freezing, which is almost too 

 much of a shock. My wife went with me to the Yel- 

 lowstone Park this summer, and she wanted to know if it 

 was possible to get away from this terrible heat, but a few mornings 

 later she was not able to dress herself because her fingers were too 

 numb with the cold. If you go from seven to eight hundred miles 

 south of that you will find a superior grandeur and a greater di- 

 versity of timber, you will see what a desired advantage it is, and 

 I think you will agree with me that this park should be opened. 



Pres. Loring : I want to repeat what I said last year. The story 

 seems almost incredible if it could not be corroborated. A gentle- 

 men in Massachusetts purchased eighty acres of land on which there 

 had been pine. Forty acres of that land was entirely clean. Forty 

 acres remained with a few trees standing, and he re-seeded the land. 

 The gentleman bought it sixty-five years ago. Sixty-five years ago 

 he went in there and trimmed up the young trees, and during all 

 his life he took great pleasure in trimming and caring for those 

 trees in that forest, removing the trees as they needed removal and 

 doing what was necessary for the proper care of the trees. Two or 

 three years ago his son sold 700,000 feet of pine timber from those 

 forty acres. I was a little trightened when I made the statement, 

 but it was corroborated by Mr. Warren Manning, who lives in 

 Massachusetts. This man took 700,000 feet of timber from those 

 forty acres, which he sold for $10.00 a thousand. I ask the asso- 

 ciation now, and I simply repeat the question I asked then, what 

 legacy can a man leave his children that will give him less trouble 

 to accumulate than that? 1 saw in Massachusetts in a field some 

 of the finest pine I ever saw in my life. I saw growing in a field 

 this beautiful timber, and as I admired it a man came along and said, 

 "It is beautiful, is it not?" The people of the neighborhood had 

 enjoyed it for years. The man said, "I have seen potatoes growing 

 in that field." So I speak of these things to encourage you to plant 

 trees. There are trees growing in our parks in Minneapolis that 

 I planted from seed, and they are more than eight inches in diameter 



