all reports, it is a confirmed bachelor 

 outfit over there in the Islands. Stout 

 is peaceful, generally, but has developed 

 the bolo habit and it seems that leads to 

 trouble. So last spring he ran into the 

 real article; was one of a bunch be- 

 sieged by about 5,000 Moros (more or 

 less) in the town of Jolo. Fortunately 

 the fence around the town was a wall 

 and too high for the "brownies," or 

 else Stout might have had to prove his 

 name. There is some land classifica- 

 tion, and Stout is getting sharp on sug- 

 ar lands. Better come home, Stout! 



Drake, '06, has had a lot of fires to 

 fight this year (and he really fights 

 them), for it has been a bad year in 

 Arizona. In addition he has had lots of 

 extras built a "link" in the "ocean-to- 

 ocean" highway running through part of 

 his forest, built over thirty miles of new 

 phone line, and repaired over two hun- 

 dred miles of old line. This, with new 

 offices, and lots of law and red tape, 

 would keep anyone busy to say noth- 

 ing about the young son, who arrived 

 at the Drakes last March. Drake makes 

 a good showing on his forest, a hand- 

 some net income, and is evidently one 

 of the right type. 



Strothman, '10, on the California, has 

 been busy with reconnaissance, type 

 maps, tours of inspection, and lots of the 

 work that comes to a busy man on a big 

 job. Incidentally a four-pointer ran into 

 him and he had to defend himself ; it 

 was a good one. They worked hard, 

 were on the job, and the fires which 

 threatened all of North California evi- 

 dently did not get the start of the boys 

 on the California. 



Stickney on the Kaniksu at Coolin, 

 Idaho, is not fond of letter writing. But 

 occasionally he drops a line, and then 

 he always tells something worth while. 

 He is chesty on the matter of timber 

 sales, and he thinks that in White Pine 



anyway they stand first. Know your 

 business, go ahead and do, and then 

 have faith in your work is a good pol- 

 icy to follow. Some fine work in detail 

 reconnaissance, protection and experi- 

 mental work is doing on the Kaniksu. 



Fay Clark, '12, on the Missoula, has 

 been busy mapping ; uses plane table and 

 telescope alidade, works for 16 inches 

 to the mile, and means to get things ac- 

 curate for report, and plan on improve- 

 ments. It takes four days per section, 

 but it does the work, and he thinks it 

 superior to the "guess and miss" method 

 of the past. 



Gutches, '09, has had a busy time up 

 in Saskatchewan (Prince Albert). It is 

 rugged country for climate ; ice in the 

 wells on June 2. They are licking 

 things into shape un in that far-off land ; 

 Gutches reports trouble from rabbits, so 

 that even two-inch trees were simply 

 chewed off and the young stuff over 

 hundreds of square miles largely de- 

 stroyed. Evidently need protection for 

 fox, wolf, and marten up in that coun- 

 try. The rabbit has its "seed years," 

 and a seven-year period is claimed by the 

 "oldest inhabitants." Fire lines plowed 

 with ox teams are an important item in 

 the work. The oxen get the bit and 

 bridle same as horses. Much of those 

 Canadian Forest Reserves has been turn- 

 ed into prairie and needs artificial re- 

 stocking, if it is to pay for its care. Cor- 

 rect, and planting will be the only way, 

 and should not be delayed in a country 

 where it will take one hundred years to 

 grow any sort of a tree. Just now 

 Gutches is wrestling hard with brush 

 disposal and protection. The country is 

 large, people few, and danger from fire 

 (and rabbits) very great at times. 



Stretch, '07, has been right in his ele- 

 ment ; he handled reconnaissance and 

 timber sale work in Lodgepole on the 

 Wyoming. He has original ideas on 



