profit besides. In addition he had the timber still 

 standing to represent a profit, cash. A letter of in- 

 quiry to him might elicit a satisfactory reply. 



P. C. RECORDS, Castle Rock, Minn. 



Agricultural College, North Dakota, April, 4, 1919 



Mr. W. T. Cox. 

 State Capitol, 

 St. Paul, Minn. 

 Dear Sir: 



I plead guilty of being slow in answering your kind 

 favor of March 12th. I have been speaking from one 

 to four times a day the last seven or eight weeks and 

 my correspondence has been correspondingly neglected. 



I have no definite data on the commercial value of 

 trees that have been planted in this state. There are 

 Cottonwoods that have been cut down in this state and 

 sawed into lumber and used for building farm houses. 

 In Turner County, South Dakota, there was a grove of 

 six acres of cottonwoods that was cut down and mark- 

 eted. This grove was thirty years old. If my memory 

 serves me right they got 88,000 feet of lumber and 

 three-hundred cords of wood from the six acres. This 

 of course may not be correct but I remember that I 

 roughly figured out that they made a bigger net profit 

 from the trees than if they had grown wheat on that 

 land the thirty years. I believe it would be a wise 



