36 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



(From Mr. Frank J. Waterous.) 



Gen. C. C. Andrews, ST. PAUL, MINN., Feb. 13, 1908. 



Forestry Commissioner, 



St. Paul, Minn. 

 My Dear Sir: 



The proposed Constitutional amendment as recommended 

 by you appears to me to be thoroughly practical and feasible, and 

 I am satisfied that if the people of our State understood the situa- 

 tion that the amendment would carry by an overwhelming 

 majority. 



Is there not some way that a campaign of education can be 

 inaugurated calling the people's attention to the importance of this 

 matter? Yours sincerely, 



FRANK J. WATEROUS. 



(From Hon. J. R. Morley, Chairman House Committee on 

 Forestry, Legislature, 1905.) 



Gen. C. C. Andrews, OWATONNA, MINN., M^arch 3, 1908. 



St. Paul, Minn. 



Dear Sir: 



I have read with much interest the Constitutional amend- 

 ment proposed by you for presentation to the next Legislature. 

 And I can assure you that I am very much pleased to see these 

 steps taken toward reforesting the cut-over lands not fit for agri- 

 culture. 



And I think the State should take the necessary steps at once 

 to reforest these cut-over lands. It is common knowledge that 

 our forests are fast becoming depleted and the average citizen is 

 indifferent about it. But if the State does not interest itself in the 

 matter of reforestation it will never be done. 



Such a system of reforestation as you propose would put Minne- 

 sota in the front rank in this particular enterprise, as she has been 

 in everything she undertakes. Let the people become once inter- 

 ested in this matter and realize the benefit that will accrue to pos- 

 terity, and your measure will become instantly popular. No time 

 should be wasted, and I hope you will use every effort to get this 

 matter before the people, to the end that public sentiment may 

 crystallize and results may be got at the hands of the next legis- 

 lature. Yours truly, 



J. R. MORLEY. 



