part of that three million acre 

 mammoth, the Sequoia-Kern. Con- 

 gratulations of the Club! Lyons is 

 strong on estimates; hit a forty by 

 about Y 2 of one per cent. And now 

 he wonders if it was just luck, or 

 science. Both, Lyons, strike an aver- 

 age. Lyons believes in careful work: 

 has done a lot this spring on the 

 Eldorado: worked over some six 

 hundred million feet in rough coun- 

 try, and says that he can beat an 

 Angora Goat on a 130 degree slope; 

 in fact he could scale the side of the 

 house if there was any estimating. 

 Lyons was slow about his answers to 

 the questions, but they are in now, 

 and the following is part of what he 

 has to say about the Forestry Course. 

 My chief regret as to the Forestry 

 Course is that I did not get a longer 

 whack at it. Am sure that I'd been a 

 much more valuable man to the Ser- 

 vice if I had known from the be- 

 ginning of my college course what I 

 wanted to do, and prepared for 

 Forestry from the start. For Mich- 

 igan as I found her, I think I got a 

 lot out of everything I tackled. It's a 

 hard proposition to cram enough 

 Forestry into a fellow's cranium to 

 last a lifetime in two short years. 

 True, you get it out in the works, but 

 how many hard days would be made 

 easy and indefinitely more valuable if 

 a fellow had the training before hand. 

 Most of us, especially post graduate 

 men, were handicapped because we 

 didn't have time to get what you had 

 to give us. Mulford's systematic 

 drilling was excellent. A fellow can't 

 get too much surveying and mapping: 

 actual retracing of old survey lines 

 and finding corners, should be part 

 of a fellow's work before entering the 

 Service. Logging practice is excel- 

 lent. I can see, over and over, how 

 much my logging experience has 

 meant to me. Few of us can absorb 

 knowledge without really getting in 

 and working at the job to find out all 

 about it. Your Forestry Administra- 



tion is excellent, and Pm sorry we 

 didn't have it before. None of my 

 course were useless. 



"I do not believe that any man 

 should be allowed to leave a forestry 

 school unless he knows how to pack, 

 ride, cook, and care for himself re- 

 mote from civilization. A Supervisor 

 has plenty of work for his force to do 

 without having to send a man out to 

 locate his Forest Assistant or to 

 go along to cook for him. I don't 

 care if a man knows everything in 

 Forestry from A to izzard, if he 

 doesn't know how to adapt himself to 

 the many varying conditions of cli- 

 mate, country and people, he has a 

 mighty big handicap, and hasn't re- 

 ceived all that he should have before 

 going out to the "job". A course in 

 business methods and correspondence, 

 especially the latter, is a necessity. 

 It's a real art to sit down and write 

 or dictate a letter, and say what you 

 want to say simply and directly. I 

 notice frequently that our best letters 

 are not the long-winded big-worded 

 sort, but the kind that say what is 

 wanted simply and directly. 



"Plans, plans, plans. Too much 

 emphasis can not be laid on plans. A 

 Supervisor has a plan for every emer- 

 gency, and the system mostly in 

 vogue now and the right stunt, I be- 

 lieve, is to have everything tabulated 

 in concise form; and it's some stunt 

 to get it all down that way without 

 getting too much or too little." 



All good gospel, Lyons, and right 

 in line with the things we need to 

 do. 



"Rex King ('10) to Hazel E. 

 Heaton, Mesa, Arizona," says a 

 card. Congratulations of the Club! 



Jesse Charles Nellis ('11) to Marie 

 Akehurst, 1334 Irving Street, Wash- 

 ington, B.C. Congratulations of the 

 Club! 



Evans ('10) sends in a card with 

 a most excellent picture of Weaver- 

 ville, California, showing mountains, 

 erosion and agriculture. "On the 



