has special qualifications which make 

 him an excellent man for the job, 

 as well as for the future management 

 of these lands. His Kentucky home, 

 his schooling and his experience on 

 the Philippine Constabulary all come 

 in good stead. But Bruner is not go- 

 ing back to the Islands. 



Knapp, '12, keeps up his reputation 

 as a "live wire." He took the exam- 

 ination for the Philippine Service; re- 

 ceived an appointment on the Sno- 

 qualmie Forest in Washington; was 

 made Instructor of Forestry at the 

 University of Washington; and lately 

 received appointment as Instructor of 

 Forestry at the University of the Phil- 

 ippines at Manila, soing over in April. 

 Considerable doings in six months, 

 tout Knapp is equal to it. He and his 

 cob pipe seem to take vicissitudes eas- 

 ily, especially if they are promotions. 



Sweeney, '12, was too good a man 

 to hold as Forest Assistant on the 

 Medicine Bow, so he was transfer- 

 red to special work in gathering in- 

 formation wthich is necessary for ra- 

 tional timber sale^ practice. He is 

 studying the costs of various steps 

 in logging, transportation and milling 

 under the great variety of conditions 

 found in District 2. When this work 

 is done we will know exactly what a 

 fair price for stumpage is in any ipart 

 of the District and there will be no 

 discrimination such as always comes 

 with "flat- rate price" enterprises. He 

 was caught up in the mountains in 

 deep snow and had to improvise a 

 pair of barrel-stave skis. They say 

 his Sunday suit suffered very consid- 

 erably 'before he got down to civiliza- 

 tion, and a few yards of plaster were 

 needed to make up deficiencies in 

 skin. But then that is part of life in 

 the Colorado Rockies. Experts like 

 Senator Shafroth never go that near 

 to the "brush"; they make their ex- 

 tensive studies on the platform in 

 University Halls, and discover that 40 

 per cent of all the National Forests 

 are above the timberline, and also 

 that It takes 200 years to grow an En- 

 gelman spruce. Such lands should 



be in lemon orchards and not in for- 

 ests. Query: Who gets the lemon? 

 Brower, '08, is at Ogden, running 

 the big nursery. He claims ;he has 

 not only the finest stands of trans- 

 plants, 'pine and spruce, but also the 

 finest 'boy in the Service. It takes 

 two pages of typewritten stuff to make 

 a valuation survey record of the boy, 

 therefore we abstain. 



Starker, '12, has run to game pres- 

 ervation and wants a formula for de- 

 termining the exact difference be- 

 tween the damage done by a black- 

 tail doe and that by a billy mazama. 

 He wants it on the Ge plan and 

 wants it a la Deutschland. Give it 

 to Kotok, Starker. In the meantime, 

 keep an eye out for that spare seat 

 in the legislature. 



Coulson, '12, worked on the Tahoe, 

 helped in a survey and cruise which 

 was done for 4 % cents per acre for 

 the field work, and also helped set out 

 about 15,000 treew. These planta- 

 tions are, as yet, only experiments; 

 but their value is very great and the 

 men in the field are just beginning to 

 appreciate them. 



Grossman, '12, says it makes him 

 homesick to see a perfectly good 

 Northern Pacific train leaving Great 

 Falls, Montana, for St Paul and Chi- 

 cago, "it is the only good thing out 

 here, this train for Chicago." Better 

 put it Ann Arbor, and come and tell 

 us about it. H e says the Kaniksu 

 Forest is O. K., plenty of water, moun- 

 tains, and the only drawback is as 

 stated. 



H. S. Sackett, '06, for years with 

 "Products" in Chicago has left the 

 Service and is with a Forest Products 

 Company in New Orleans. Absolute- 

 ly reckless, this. He hobnobs with 

 the "big bugs" at the Pickwick Club, 

 and is associated with the Jas. D. La- 

 cey Co., timber owners and timber 

 brokers. 



Scherer, '12, is at Flagstaff, Arizo- 

 na, and knows all about grazing cat- 

 tle and sheep, as well as the working's 

 of the experiment station. This sta- 

 tion is one of several which are to 



