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dustry is an extremely intimate one, for mines can 

 not be developed without timber, and usually not 

 without timber close at hand. In many regions of 

 the West ore is more abundant than wood, and where 

 the ore is of low grade, transportation of the nec 

 essary mine timbers from a distance is out of the 

 question. The use of the mine is strictly limited to 

 the man who has timber available close at hand. The 

 very existence of lumbering, the fourth great in 

 dustry of the United States, depends upon the success 

 of your work and our work as a Nation in putting 

 practical forestry into effective operation. 



As it is with mining and lumbering, so it is in only 

 less degree with transportation, manufacture, and 

 commerce in general. The relation of all these in 

 dustries to the forests is of the most intimate and 

 dependent kind. It is a matter for congratulation 

 that so many of these great interests are waking up 

 to this fact. The railroads, especially, managed as 

 they are by men who are obliged by the very nature 

 of their profession to possess insight into the future, 

 have awakened to a clearer realization of the vast 

 importance of economical use both of timber and of 

 forests. Even the grazing industry, as it is carried 

 out in the great West, which might at first sight ap 

 pear to have little relation to forestry, is neverthe 

 less closely related to it, because great areas of win 

 ter range would be entirely useless without the sum 

 mer range in the mountains, where the forest re 

 serves lie. 



The forest resources of our country are already 



