Acres. 



E. K. Wood Lumber company 10,670 



Poison Logging company 10,040 



George F. Stone 8,920 



Ruddock & McCarthy 7,810 



Olean Land company. 6,040 



Puget Mill and Timber company 5,760 



W. H. White company 5,280 



O'Neil Timber company 5,200 



Edward and Susan Lowe 5,040 



St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba R. R. 4,760 



H. S. Upper 4,360 



Merrill & Ring company 4,160 



Union Lumber company 4,120 



C. C. Bloomfield, et al 3,720 



Goodyear Land company 3,640 



George M. Burr 3,480 



C. H. Davis 3,440 



C. E. Burrows & Co 2,780 



James Campbell 2,760 



Mason County Logging company 2,680 



V. H. May 2,560 



James McNealy 2,420 



Lincoln Timber company 2,280 



Carston & Earle 2,240 



Total 318,640 



Constant Vigilance Required to Defend the Public Areas. 



Our public land areas, and particularly the forest areas, 

 require the constant efforts of vigilant and incorruptible gov- 

 ernment agents to defend them from the cupidity of men 

 eager to possess themselves of timbered areas of great value 

 or of water power sites, also of great value, on the terms of 

 the homestead law. Mr. Graves says that many of the areas 

 that speculators are now seeking to obtain contain from 

 100,000 to 200,000 feet of timber to the acre. Single claims 

 of 160 acres would have a value of from $50,000 to $75,000. 



