hope of being more accurate in the fu- 

 ture. 



Birch, '13, has been on the Sierra, do- 

 ing a variety of work, from "June i ith" 

 to laying out resort and camper's lots 

 about the lakes, and tending to petty 

 correspondence. He believes in the Si- 

 erra as well as the Kern, thinks the elec- 

 tric car and engine is coming soon, and 

 that the mountain forests will be devel- 

 oped immensely during the next ten 

 years, Those power plants with falls 

 of over 2000 feet and plenty of water at 

 that, are enough to make one stop and 

 wonder what next. The summer was 

 hot and dry on the Sierra and every- 



body was on the jump and lookout, but 

 the results of organization are telling 

 in California, and while the state al- 

 lows Tanalpais to burn almost in the 

 city limits of Frisco, the great National 

 Forests came through without great 

 losses. And those great summer days 

 on the backbone of the Continent! No 

 wonder one loves the Sierra ! 



Goddard, '13, has been with the Priest 

 River Experiment Station, and enjoys 

 the brush and the work in spite of the 

 skeeters and flies which evidently put 

 on special frills this year. He writes the 

 most enjoyable letters and the club 

 hopes that he may continue in this, and 

 not drop in with the rank of the silent 

 ones. Goddard likes the Kaniksu, and 

 no wonder, for Priest Lake is a great 

 pool even in a storm, with old Dave 

 Coolin at the sail, holding the sheet with 

 a suspender. They are trying lots of 

 interesting things in cruising, among 

 them the empirical yield studies, etc., 

 all of which are things in which God- 

 dard is specially interested and compe- 

 tent. 



St. Clair, '12, is with the C. P. R., 

 headquarters Calgary. He has had a 

 busy summer, with over 70 men in the 

 field doing reconnaissance. 



Wegner, '12, is with St. Clair, and 

 quite a bunch of Michigan men were out 

 with them during the summer months. 

 St. Clair is interested particuarly in the 

 "immediate future" ; "get the stuff cruis- 

 ed and get it out, and do it cheaply," 

 seems to be his motto, and he is wonder- 

 ing if he would not have been better off 

 if he had put in his two years in a log- 

 ging enterprise. Better come back for 

 a conference, St. Clair, and talk it over. 



Conover, '13, is at Grant Pass, Ore- 

 gon, and has as bailywick the great 

 range of the Siskiyous. Has been on 

 "June nth" watching for fires, and do- 

 ing the usual varieties. He is looking 

 for an antidote for grasshoppers, for 

 these pests seem immune and have a 

 penchant for seedlings of the Sugar 

 Pine, and Port Orford Cedar. He is 

 planning a combination of nursery and 

 turkey ranch, which is a perfectly satis- 

 factory "working plan," especially as 

 Thanksgiving is near at hand. Conover 

 did some plane table work in the Smith 

 River, likes the board, since compass 

 has too many notions in that country. 

 Has been watching Redwood logging, 

 and is not impressed with it from any 

 point, even as to camp sanitation. But 

 he does get enthusiastic when he speaks 

 of stands running fourty million to the 

 fourty (!), with plenty of trees fifteen 

 feet in diameter and over. We shall 

 miss you, Conover, better come back 

 for a conference. 



There is really lots more to report, 

 but the editor shakes his head, and so 

 good night ! 



