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Pennsylvania with it many mines and factories using great quan- 

 tities of mine timber, boxes, pails, and baskets, in their operation, 

 should be impressed with the value of this class of material, and thus 

 create a market for large quantities of fire-killed timber. 



On a part of the Stone Keserve, an area of about 3J acres, lie 25 

 M. ft. B. M. of fallen timber killed by fire. It stood for about two 

 years only to be wind swept, and having no root system to hold it, 

 fell. This is in a place six to eight miles from a railroad, and acces- 

 sible only by a very poor trail road. One man made an offer to pay 

 fl.OO per M. feet for all logs sawed mill measure, 50 cents per M. for 

 shingles, 50 cents per M. for lath, and 30 cents per M. for fence posts. 

 This prospective buyer says "that by taking all fire-killed and down 

 timber, there is still left a good profit at these rates." Another, a 

 boss logger, not wishing to make a bid says "$12.00 per M. can be 

 safely paid for all the better stuff, and fire wood or charcoal be made 

 of the inferior material." 



Confining this subject to our own State, we must first realize that 

 each reserve because of its geographical and geological position would 

 be governed by its own peculiar conditions. The money consideration 

 in the disposal of fire-killed timber in one case could hardly be used 

 as an example for every other. However, having in mind the idea of 

 advanced forestry, and the thought that fire-killed timber is a great 

 detriment to growing trees, seedlings, and necessary undergrowth, as 

 well as to the cause of forestry, its removal is warranted at an ex- 

 pense equal to its revenue. Personally, I believe that its removal 

 is warranted at a cost in excess of its return value. Such a deficit 

 is to be regarded a good investment on account of the improved con- 

 ditions obtained in the then cleared and growing forest. 



Again, with a careful system thoroughly thought out for each re- 

 serve and operated under good management, there will eventually 

 be a return of revenue far above the expense, and plus this, give a 

 clean forest, a practical object lesson in applied forestry, an oppor- 

 tunity to train unskilled labor, as well as create a force of local 

 workers, breed a friendly instead of a hostile feeling to the cause of 

 forestry, and last, but far from least, leave a general result that "He 

 who runs may read." 



Each reserve, with an idea of profit from fire-killed timber, must 

 first cater to the need of its local market, and then create a market for 

 the remainder of the product, the idea being to make the former bear 

 the expense, and from the latter, the fragments, receive the clear gain 

 or profits of the operation. 



At my station, the Stone Keserve in Tioga county, from personal 

 observation and information received from loggers, lumbermen, and 

 local residents, it is believed the amount of fire-killed fallen timber 

 warrants the erection of a model plant for the manufacture of lumber, 



