for some years past, and within the past three years I 

 have taken from that tract 50,000 feet of lumber, and I 

 still have left at least 150,000 feet of serviceable lum- 

 ber. Cotton wood lumber is today selling in Yankton 

 at $25.00 a thousand feet. In 1918, $40.00. I think 

 I am safely within the facts when I say that almost any- 

 where in South Dakota one can easily grow timber 

 enough, with only the proper care for (the first two or 

 three years after planting, to make the land on which 

 it grows make a gain of at least $20.00 an acre each 

 year in valuation because of the timber thereon. Ten 

 acres of timber referring to only the ordinary varie- 

 ties of quick growing hardwoods like cottonwood will 

 easily increase in value to the extent of $20.00 a year 

 per acre, and under favorable conditions as to moisture 

 -and soil it will more than double the figures I have 

 given." 



IN THE MATTER OF PEAT 



L. W. AVER 



REFERRING to Peat developments, I have become 

 much interested in the game. I have been getting 

 information from every available source, correspondence 

 and talking with folks from the "Old Country," who 

 have used it for fuel, and have not learned much yet. 

 The Old Country folks tell me it is better than either 

 wood or coal. If this is so, its potential value to the 

 state is second only to its Iron Mines. 



I have already written to Washington for whatever 



