Industrial loss will result if congress finally curtails the 

 work of the wood products experiment section of the forest 

 service, in the opinion of Chief Forester Graves. In the agri- 

 cultural appropriation bill the amount provided for this work 

 is cut from $170,000 to $100,000. 



In explaining the features of this branch of the forest serv- 

 ice, Mr. Graves, in a statement, declared that multitudinous 

 users of lumber had been shown how they could secure a max- 

 imum of service and durability from a minimum of material. 

 In experiments to determine the best methods of utilizing and 

 conserving timber, in discovering the best methods of using 

 the by-product and in studying hundreds of allied questions, 

 Mr. Graves contended that this division of the forest service 

 had been paying for itself many times over. 



Oscar Erickson of Crookston, is trying to interest the Elk 

 lodges of the state in stocking the Superior forest reserve with 

 elk. He suggests that the animals be brought here from the 

 Jackson hole country in Wyoming, where they starve by the 

 thousands each year for lack of feed. Several prominent 

 members of the B. P. O. E. have assured him their support in 

 the movement. 



The Superior reserve is well watered, there is a good stand 

 of timber and the animals would be protected from the cold 

 winds by dense underbrush. Erickson believes the govern- 

 ment would assist the lodges in bringing a trainload of the 

 animals to Minnesota. 



The North Wisconsin Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 on January 25 completed the tearing up of twenty miles of 

 the logging road northwest of Hayward, which with branches, 

 etc., amounted to about forty-eight miles. Most of the rails 

 belonged to the Omaha road and were taken to Altoona. 

 However, about six miles belonged to the Edward Hines Lum- 

 ber Company, which shipped them to Gulfport, Miss., where 

 they will be used in Southern operations. 



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