UNIVERSITY 



EOREST ENDOWMENT 



or paciric SLOPE 



Particularly California 



MOTHER NATURE is wonderfully lavish with her 

 favors towards some countries, and as strangely nig- 

 gardly to others. 



No more striking proof of this fact is found than 

 that of the distribution of the forests over the land- 

 surface of the earth. It is but little understood 

 that the most wonderful and valuable forest known 

 is that of Northwest America. 



This forest possesses more kinds or species of 

 resinous- wooded, needle-leaved, cone-bearing trees 

 than any equal area in the world, and these trees 

 are either the largest in dimensions, or they bear 

 the largest fruits, called cones, that the earth has 

 produced. 



This matchless combination of superlative quali- 

 ties has been bestowed by circumstances and forces 

 so wonderful as to give the phenomenon the char- 

 acter of a distinct gift or local endowment. 



Passing by the non-resinous, broad-leaved trees, 

 of which there is a liberal allowance, the resinous- 

 wooded, cone-bearing trees of the Pacific Slope 



