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of a preventable nature should be made. This should be followed by a 

 later survey to determine if they still exist after the introduction of 

 mechanism that is to be developed to utilize them in some profitable 

 manner. 



This is a momentous problem and one that manufacturing lum- 

 bermen and stumpage owners should pay for. for they alone benefit 

 directly thereby. I submit to you gentlemen this statement of condi- 

 tions, and ask for your sincere assistance in support of an activity to 

 spread this information to the lumbermen themselves, for "If there be 

 any criticism to be passed upon the lumbermen it is that tliey have kept 

 their achievements too much to themselves. They have been satisfied 

 to make a large amoimt of worthless land extremely valuable, and have 

 not taken the trouble to explain their work to the people at large. This 

 is a period of great publicity and large advertising, and the lumber 

 industry must realize this fact in order to keep abreast of the times". 

 This quotation, substituting the name of lumbermen for iron ore 

 miners, is from a poblic document treating of iron ore deposits in the 

 state of Minnesota, and indicates the pleasant relations that exist be- 

 tween commercial and technical branches of this particular industry, 

 and is a sentiment that I wish might be encouraged and intensified be- 

 tween the practical lumbermen and the technical division of the forest 

 products industry. 



