two years in the way we have perfected advc.nce plans for 



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transportation, for emergoncj/ labor, and for the :uiclr 

 assembling of fire fighting equipment and supplies. 



Perhaps the "best thing that ever happened to the 

 District was when we i;olie up to the fact that the Government 

 purse had a "bottom to it. 5?he old method of annual Spring 

 estimates for a total equalling the sum of the details of 

 the imagination of nineteen men did not inalre for economy. 

 7ith a fined total for the District to count on year after 

 year, the forest allotments "become only natter of the proper 

 weighing of their relative needs - In time these totals will 

 "become more or less definitely fixed. 



Assuming that a Torest could use $00,000. a year 

 to advantage, "but there being only $ 700, 000. in the District, 

 and the Forest's share "being 0,30,000. what ic tlie most that 

 can "be "bought in protection, development and use with that 

 ; ' ;1 30,000.? That is the question every one of you has had to 

 answer this year and it requires good hard "business sense to 

 answer it correctly - TThen all of you do the District will 

 "be running at lOOfj efficiency. 



Before I get through patting you on the baclr, I 

 want to point out an entirely distinct line of progress - 

 that of efficiency in silviculture! work in the woods, v/ith 

 the enormous timber sale business in sight last Svjnmor it 

 was up to us to looli closely at our marking methods and malie 



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