>r one season at a cost of $12,430 reduces the patrol force 

 85 men, whose wages would have amounted to $38,310 a 

 jt saving in patrol cost of $25,880. 



My idea in advocating the use of hydro-aeroplanes in North- 

 stern Minnesota was that the U. S. Navy Department fur- 

 ;h the machines and establish a training station for aero- 

 tuts in connection with the naval militia station at Duluth. 

 state^ of Minnesota might then co-operate, at slight ex- 

 mse, with the federal government in the carrying out of 

 rstematic aerial patrol. By such an arrangement, Minne- 

 )ta would profit in having adequate protection over mil- 

 ms of acres of forest, worth to the state millions of dollars 

 year for timber production and recreation purposes. The 

 Jnited States government would profit through protecting 

 le Superior national forest and through training up a corps 

 competent aeronauts for the national defense. The prop- 

 sition was taken up with the Washington authorities more 

 in a year ago. Secretary Daniels seems to be favorably 

 iclined toward the plan, and it is probable that some such 

 -rangement can be worked out in the near future. 



