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"If to the value of the total output of all our veins of gold, silver, copper, 

 lead, zinc, iron and coal, were added the value derived from the petroleum 

 wells and stone quarries and this sum were increased by the estimated 

 value of all steamboats, sailing vessels, canal boats, flat boats, and barges, 

 plying in American waters and belonging to the citizens of the United 

 States, it would still be less than the value of the annual forest crop by a- 

 sum sufficient to purchase at cost of construction all canals, buy at par all 

 the stock of the telegraph companies, pay their bonded debts and construct 

 and equip all telephone lines in the United States. It exceeds the gross in- 

 come of all the railroads and transportation companies, it would pay the in- 

 debtedness of all the States, counties, townships, school-districts and cities 

 included, excepting New York and Pennsylvania." What do we conclude 

 from these considerations and facts? That the lumberman, the purveyor 

 of these forest products, is a most necessary and important factor in our 

 civilization, that the Arbor-day oratory of "Woodman, spare that tree," 

 with opprobrium thrust at the wood-choppers is puerile and inappreciative 

 of the proportions which a reform in methods of forest exploitation must 

 assume. 



KATCHEWANOOKA LAKE. 



Photo by Houghton W. Wilson. 



