MASSACHUSETTS 



has increased in greater and greater propor- 

 tions as we have been 'developing in commer- 

 cial power and prestige, while products them- 

 selves have been approaching exhaustion. 

 During the recent war New England was 

 fairly gone over with a fine-tooth comb for 

 forest products for every conceivable use, and 

 with results only too well known to all busi- 

 ness men. 



We have looked upon our forest products 

 as inexhaustible, and think that though New 

 England should be depleted, there are other 

 sections at our very doors with plenty for our 

 demands. Many of our statesmen and fore- 

 sighted, country-loving citizens have pre- 

 dicted our calamity, but they have been 

 heeded as one crying in the wilderness. 



THE COMMERCIAL ERA 



The commercial era has absorbed us. Es- 

 thetics and standards of economics in a new 

 country, whose natural resources are appar- 

 ently boundless, are as nothing compared with 

 commercial activities. There is bound to 

 come a time, however, when the pendulum 

 swings back, and unless our natural resources 

 are conserved, we are bound to suffer the con- 

 sequences. We are beginning to get a taste 

 of it already. 



We have in New England a natural forest 

 country that will respond to forestry devel- 

 opment as readily as any country on earth. 

 We are dependent upon the forest crop to 

 continue our innumerable industries located 

 everywhere throughout our five states. In 

 our studies of the Massachusetts wood-manu- 

 facturing industries in 1910 it was ascertained 

 that this State alone converted 550,000,000 



