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lands which have a controlling influence on 

 the navigability of streams in the Appa- 

 lachian district, and, what is of even 

 greater importance, on the continued fer- 

 tility and freedom from erosion of southern 

 farm lands. 



This is, of course, not to mention the 

 tremendous stake of preservation of water 

 power which, in its way, holds one of the 

 keys to the future development of the 

 southern states. 



It will be an excellent idea for southern- 

 ers to communicate their wishes to south- 

 ern senators, and to keep a keen eye on 

 the proceedings of the upper chamber on 

 February 15, 1911. Atlanta Constitution. 



At least, it is to be hoped that the senate 

 will pass the Appalachian forest bill, au- 

 thorizing the government and the states 

 to take action toward conservation of water 

 and protection against floods. It is a 

 special order in the senate for Feb. 15, 

 having already passed the house, and it 

 should be adopted. Duluth Herald. 



Industries to Utilize Forest^Waste 



The Washington Conservation Associa- 

 tion is planning an active campaign to 

 bring into the state industries to utilize 

 forest waste. This will be worked out 

 along the lines of a plan prepared by the 

 secretary of the association, R. W. Douglas. 

 The immediate aim is to attract outside 

 capital and men of experience to locate in 

 the state to develop the secondary wood 

 and wood by-products industries. 



The plan, says the Seattle Post-Intelli- 

 gencer, contemplates the creation of a cen- 

 tral organization under the direction of an 

 intelligent head of unusual business ability. 

 It is proposed that this man devote his 

 efforts to presenting the opportunities in 

 secondary wood uses in Washington 

 throughout the East, and that the principal 

 industrial centers of the state through their 

 commercial organizations direct their ener- 

 gies toward securing plants for their com- 

 munities. 



Mr. Douglas has prepared a list of 

 nearly 500 articles which can be made In 

 this state from the lumber now wasted. 

 There are, he says, hundreds of others. 



"Of all the trees cut down," says Mr. 

 Douglas, "only a little more than one-third 

 of their material reaches the market. A 

 large proportion of the inferior wood sacri- 

 ficed could be utilized in a practical and 

 profitable manner. 



"Men of capital can be induced to estab- 

 lish in this state industrial plants similar 

 to those operated in other states, notably 

 Massachusetts, Michigan and Wisconsin, 

 for the secondary uses of wood and the 

 extraction of by-products from our inferior 

 wood and waste. 



Mr. Douglas states that some of the 

 waste lumber that can be utilized consists 

 of windfalls, fire-scarred trees, decaying 

 trees, stumps, bark, limbs, branches, tops, 

 slabs, spalts, back ends, edgings, unused 

 short lengths, unmarketable low grades of 

 lumber, sawdust, shavings, chips and drift 

 logs and boards, found on all beaches. 



The Forests of Labrador 



Official reports to the Newfoundland gov- 

 ernment of reconnaissances in Labrador 

 show that the country is heavily wooded, 

 and that in Hamilton Inlet, Sandwich Bay, 

 and other districts on the east coast there 

 is good timber and great water powers, 

 while the region, being open to navigation 

 for seven months of the year, possesses the 

 same advantages for the pulp and paper 

 industry as the mills in those parts of 

 northern Europe which supply European 

 centers today. 



In Groswater Bay, or Hamilton Inlet, 

 is one property of 4,500 square miles, or 

 half as large again as the tract possessed 

 by the Harmsworths at Grand Falls, New- 

 foundland. Adjoining it is a second area 

 of 1,200 square miles and a third of 600 

 square miles. All are well wooded and 

 conveniently situated on the shores of this 

 vast inland sea. Some distance south, ad- 

 joining these areas and having an outlet 

 at Sandwich Bay, are areas equally well 

 wooded of 1,200 square miles. 



Missouri's Forest Resources 



Last year, says the Drovers Telegram, 

 Missouri placed nearly $25,000,000 worth 

 of lumber and other forest products on the 

 market, but it is not maintaining its capa- 

 bilities in that line. A supervisor of the 

 Arkansas National Forest recently called 

 attention to this. According to this authority 

 the timbered area of the state dropped 

 from 60 per cent of the entire area of the 

 state in 1900 to 39 per cent in 1908. Less 

 than five billion board feet now remain 

 and at the present rate of consumption 

 this will last but a few years more. The 

 standing pine timber of Missouri is already 

 practically used up. There are millions of 

 acres of soils in Missouri that are worth- 

 less for agricultural purposes, but capable 

 of growing valuable forest trees. These 

 should be utilized for the growing of forest 

 trees, and not allowed to grow worthless 

 bushes and scrub trees. Were those recom- 

 mendations followed Missouri would, in 

 time, be growing more lumber and utilizing 

 its soil economically. She is not the only 

 state that needs to produce more timber. 

 The entire country needs more. Hannibal 

 (Mo.) Post. 



