ed both men and timber. The Forest 

 Service, through Tom Spaulding and 

 Clark, is doing all that can be done 

 to get the dead timber located, cruised 

 and advertised with a view of getting 

 purchasers, and thus having it utiliz- 

 ed before it all goes to waiste by de- 

 cay. No small task in these moun- 

 tains to handle a crew of twenty, 

 mostly green men, and get a good job 

 done. This work includes some novel- 

 ties, among them an extensive study 

 for volume tables for that locality, 

 and railroad surveys which will help 

 in the disposal of timber. It was 

 found that volume tables of white 

 pine for other localities do not apply 

 on the St. Joe. 



Dwinelle, '12, says, "The Cabinet 

 Forest for me;" and he adds that 

 surveying is easy mostly up and 

 down, with now and then a little di- 

 version by way of a rockslide or a 

 burn. 



Dickson, '08, is still at Dauphin, 

 Manitoba. His million-acre forest is 

 in the lime-light; miles of aspen and 

 some spruce, a little muskeg and 

 plenty of Galicians. To get an extra 

 interest, he developes a little local 

 politics to see if it is he or the "Sa- 

 loon-keeper Ranger"who counts most 

 It is the same old story, through dark- 

 ness to light; and the darkness of the 

 North American people lies in their 

 politics. But Dick&on is hopeful. As- 

 pen logs have a good sale and a 12- 

 inch spruce is a tree of value up in 

 that farmer's prairie-paradise. Dick- 

 son is great on fire-lines and has 

 built literally hundreds of miles, for 

 after all it is fire protection which 

 forme the great job; so he is working 

 for a patrol system and for brush 

 disposal. If you have a good sugges- 

 tion en the practice of brush disposal 

 send it to Dickson. The lumbering 

 "slash" must go, and it is merely a 

 matter of time and method. 



Keplinger, '08, <s still at Wagon 

 Wheel Gap, Colorado, and is engag- 

 ed in a most interesting experiment. 

 The Service is here demonstrating ex- 

 actly what influence the forest cover 

 has on the run-off of water. A cou- 

 ple of small watersheds will be sub- 

 ject to careful daily observations of 

 snowfall, rainfall, run-off, etc.; and 

 after this is settled satisfactorily the 



watershed will be cleared and again 

 kept under observation. In this way 

 all errors of comparing different wa- 

 tersheds ie entirely eliminated. It 

 will take some time, but it will be 

 well worth the cost and effort. Few 

 men have the stuff to stick to such a 

 painstaking ;o>b without losing inter- 

 est, but we all know that when Kep- 

 linger finishes this job the results may 

 be relied upon 



A card from Savanne, Ontario, 

 bears good wishes to the Cluib from 

 Leavitt,'04, Winegar, '10, iMetcalf, '11 

 and O. F. Shaefer, '12, who held a 

 Michigan reunion up in the land of 

 beaver and muskoK. 



Leavitt was here at one of the mid- 

 winter conferences rnd told in a most 

 interesting way of his long career as 

 forester since leaving school. He is 

 the Forester of the Canadian Conser- 

 vation Commission, and his main work 

 last season was to serve the Dominion 

 Railway Commission in organizing 

 for them the forest fire protection 

 along the different lines of railway. 

 A big job, this, needs lots of enthusi- 

 asm and lots of tact to get everybody 

 interested, to get the earnest and effi- 

 cient co-operation 01' the railway men, 

 top and bottom, and to get the sup- 

 port and interest of the people along 

 these great lines of travel. Leavitt 

 reports progress, and also a very 

 earnest and helpful spirit among the 

 "real" people. 



Winegar is right in the swim, and 

 a fine photo (which, by the way, is no 

 fair substitute for the man at a prom- 

 ised winter conference) shows plain- 

 ly that big jobs and heavy responsibi- 

 lity agree wkh him. Winegar, Forester 

 to the Canadian Pacific Railway, is 

 located at Montreal and looks after 

 the forestry work in the eastern dis- 

 trict of this great trans-continental 

 line. Just now he is examining large 

 holdings to determine the amount of 

 their Standing timber. He is also in- 

 terested in the tie and timber sup- 

 pily of the great railway and in the 

 adjustment of claims of timber-land, 

 etc. He has recently secured Metcalf 

 and Schaefer to assist him. Metcalf 

 left the Forest Service to help Wine- 

 gar in his big ;obs It was a stroke 

 of good luck that Schaefer was free 

 and could be secured. A great team 



