Another big drive is located now near Sauk Rapids, and 

 unless cold weather prevents it should arrive in Minneapolis 

 in time for cutting this fall. Three drives already have been 

 cut by the Smith and Northland Pine mills. 



During the entire cutting season last year only 80,000,000 

 feet of logs were handled by the mills. If the weather con- 

 tinues favorable several million of feet more should be cut. 



Had it not been for bad weather in July this year the sur- 

 veyor general says the cut would have been still larger. 



At its meeting in Indianapolis, October 1-4, Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, an expert forester and millionaire of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 was elected president of the national conservation congress 

 for next year. 



Amendments to the constitution placing the congress on a 

 permanent basis with a membership roll, instead of having 

 delegates appointed by states, municipalities and organiza- 

 tions were adopted. 



Fifteen delegates to the congress were appointed as rep- 

 resentatives of Minnesota by Governor Eberhart. 



The list follows: Capt. E. C. Anthony, Hastings; Hugh J. 

 Hughes, Minneapolis; D. C. Armstrong, Albert Lea; Henry 

 Oldenburg, Carlton; L. O. Cooke, Lake City; Daniel Shaw, 

 Thief River Falls; Albert Berg, Spooner; D. A. Wallace, St. 

 Paul; W. W. Sivright, Hutchinson; Z. D. Scott, Duluth; D. 

 M. Neill, Red Wing; A. E. Chamberlain, St. Paul; J. W. 

 Wheeler, St. Paul; H. A. Tuttle, Minneapolis; J. B. Irwin, 

 Minneapolis.. 



The oldest living things in the world are the sequoia trees 

 in the General Grant and Sequoia National Parks, The gov- 

 ernment has just issued a bulletin telling all about them and 

 how to get to them. These trees are also the tallest trees 

 known. Within the two parks there are 13 groves contain- 

 ing over 12,000 trees larger than 10 feet in diameter. 



It is estimated that some of these trees were growing 4,000 

 years ago. In fact, annual wood rings have been counted on 

 one of the fallen giants in the Sequoia park showing that it 

 had reached that age. 



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