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creation of the Forest Bureau, for having transferred to the Forest 

 Bureau all the lands that were in the possession of the Department of 

 the Interior that were suitable to be made into reserves, to be cared for 

 under proper forestry conditions. So the National Board of Trade 

 feel that the condition at the present time that has been attained, 

 the education that has developed, the interest that has brought about 

 and created a conservation commission, that the whole country, 

 through the educational work that has taken place throughout these 

 years, has become alive to the importance of the conservation and the 

 utilization of all of our natural resources. I am also here on behalf 

 of the deep waterways* and inland waterways people, being identified 

 and associated with them. I also have the privilege and the honor to 

 be the chairman of the executive committee of the American Forestry 

 Association, and we have worked for many years to help to develop 

 and create the sentiment that is making what we want done now 

 possible to be done. We believe, looking at it as we do from the 

 commercial side and not from the sentimental side, that the most 

 important thing we have to consider is the preservation and the 

 intelligent utilization of our forests, especially on the headwaters of 

 all of our streams, if inland waterways are to be developed and trans- 

 portation is to be furnished, not only for the present, but for the 

 future; that the preservation of the forests and reforestation, and 

 the proper use of them, are the fundamental and underlying ques- 

 tions that are involved in the whole question of conservation and 

 utilization of waterways. 



I am not going to burden you gentlemen with an address. I did 

 not come here to do that. I did not come here with any expectation 

 of acting further than as a spectator. I came here " swift to hear 

 but slow to speak." But the people of Pennsylvania, whom I also 

 represent as a member of the conservation commission of the State 

 of Pennsylvania, and had the privilege of representing that State at 

 the conference at the White House as well, are doing, and have done, 

 and have been pioneers in doing, what has been suggested that the 

 States shall do in your hearing to-day. The State of Pennsylvania 

 took this matter up more than fifteen years ago. We now own 

 830,000 acres of land, much of which was bought, I think, at the 

 averaging price of a little less than $3 per acre. The State is reforest- 

 ing. I visited plantations of the State last summer. They have 

 millions of seedlings. They are planting out this year about 800,000 

 pine trees on the reserves, and the State of Pennsylvania will within 

 ten years have an income from her reserves. Not only that, but the 

 State of Pennsylvania has been the pioneer in one of the most magnifi- 

 cent things that has ever been done by any State, and it shows. Take 

 the city of Philadelphia, which is known as the " City of Brotherly 

 Love." Its influence has extended throughout the entire State, and 

 that praiseworthy element has so influenced the people of the entire 

 State that their interest in suffering humanity has been so great that 

 our legislature appropriated $1,000,000 a year ago for the establish- 

 ment of camps for tuberculosis patients on the reserves of the State, 

 and that work is now being done as an example to every State on 

 behalf of those who are suffering from what has heretofore been con- 

 sidered an incurable disease. I visited these camps last summer. 

 The week before T was there 1C men and women had been sent 



