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and now growing up to grass for pasturage, and thus destroy- 

 ing trees that would become fit for marketable lumber. Even 

 the trees big enough for cross-ties are cut out and sold. I find 

 a great many prominent gentlemen say "Pooh !" at this, and af- 



Photo 194 

 Cutting away the Timber Dries up the Stream. 



firm that there is "any God's quantity of good Oak trees in this 

 country for fifty years to come." Mr. Grafton, Chief of the Sig- 

 nal Service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, knows bet- 

 ter, and realizes the gravity of the situation, as do nearly all 

 railroad men. If railroad "cross-ties" are so abundant as some 

 would 'have us believe, why does Mr. E. H. Harriman order one 



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