APPENDIX B 



of others, including Professor Bruner, to warrant him 

 in determining to visit the spot and to see for himself 

 what had happened there. I confess to have been quite 

 troubled over the fact that Mr. Hall was to visit this 

 plantation, as I felt sure that it must have disappeared, 

 and its disappearance would be an argument against 

 the possibility of foresting the sandhills, in spite of any 

 carelessness that might have resulted in the failure of 

 the experiment. So I waited for a week or ten days, 

 in a more or less troubled state of mind, when one day 

 Mr. Hall walked into my office in a state of great ex- 

 citement. I called to him and said, "What is the mat- 

 ter, Mr. Hall?" when he answered, "Why, I have 

 seen them." "Seen what?" I said. "Those trees," he 

 said. "What trees?" I said. "Oh, those planted in 

 Holt County ten years ago" ; and then he went on and 

 in much excitement told me what he had seen. The 

 pine trees were from 18 to 20 feet high. They had 

 formed a dense thicket, in which forest conditions had 

 already appeared. The growth was greater than on 

 similar trees planted in the eastern part of Nebraska. 

 Mr. Hall was most enthusiastic in his description of 

 this little plot of pine trees. At last I became some- 

 what troubled, as I feared that through some mistake 

 the trees had been planted on a patch of good soil 

 instead of on sandhill soil. However, Mr. Hall as- 

 sured me that that plantation was on the "sandiest of 

 sandhills." 



The result of this experiment was to dissipate all 

 doubt as to the possibility of growing pine trees on the 

 Nebraska sandhills, and as a consequence Mr. Hall 



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