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The plants are upon the ground, the opera- 

 tions are all laid out. It is perhaps just 

 as easy to produce 75 percent of the nom- 

 inal capacity of the mills as it is to pro- 

 duce 50 percent. Of course, the industry, 

 on this account, will respond to every im- 

 provement in market conditions with an 

 unnecessarily large increase in production 

 unless there be a suflBciently strong con- 

 trol of production to prevent it, and that 

 control the figures clearly show to be lack- 

 ing." 



Officers elected were: President, W. C. 

 Landon; vice-president, M. P. McCullough; 

 treasurer, George E. Foster; secretary, 

 R. S. Kellogg; directors, W. O. Brightman, 

 George H. Atwood, T. A. Green, and R. E. 

 McLean. 



Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association 



At the nineteenth annual meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association in 

 Philadelphia, Thursday, January 26, the 

 association's forestry committee reported, 

 through its chairman, J. S. Hess, as fol- 

 lows: 



The crusade for the conservation of our 

 natural resources received a strong impe- 

 tus during the administration of President 

 Roosevelt. The necessity for the conserva- 

 tion of the forests of the United States 

 for the proper use of them by the present 

 and future generations of American citi- 

 zens was brought to the attention of the 

 whole country. No class of people more 

 faithfully seconded the movement than the 

 lumbermen of the United States. At all 

 meetings of lumbermen during the last de- 

 cade the subject received their earnest at- 

 tention, but agitation without action that 

 will tell is of no avail. 



As Pennsylvanians we may well be proud 

 of what our state is doing in the direction 

 of conservation and reforestation. Nearly 

 1,000,000 acres are now in the possession 

 of the state and no forestry department 

 of any state has done more effectual and 

 systematic work than our own great com- 

 monwealth. The forestry department has 

 quietly gone forward with the work so 

 nobly begun by Professor Rothrock, and 

 so ably continued by the men at the head 

 of the department today. New forest re- 

 serves are being added as the means afford, 

 and men are at work sowing seeds and 

 preparing seedlings for the replanting of 

 the state forest reserves and the private 

 forest lands in the state. Our state is 

 engaged in the education of young men for 

 the work of forestry and the management 

 not only of our state reserves but also 

 of the forest land owned by private in- 

 dividuals. 



From an article in the Public Ledger I 

 gleaned the following: 



"Although the scientists of the federal 

 and of some state governments have long 

 recognized the growing danger in the rapid 

 spread of the chestnut blight, Pennsylvania 



is the only state which has organized a 

 thoroughly systematic study of the disease 

 and applied practical methods to check its 

 spread." 



Seeing what the forestry department is 

 doing with the small amount of money ap- 

 propriated, our association should join with 

 the friends of forest conservation in urg- 

 ing larger appropriations by the legisla- 

 ture to further and continue the great work 

 so nobly done with the limited means at 

 their command. 



The national government has been spend- 

 ing a large amount of money in the main- 

 tenance of national forest reserves in the 

 West. An equal amount should most justly 

 be spent in the acquisition and maintenance 

 of similar national forest reserves in the 

 South and East. The national reserves in 

 the West amount to 194,505,325 acres. They 

 are cared for by 1,500 national forest offi- 

 cers. The total expenditure during the 

 last year was $3,908,249. They yield a 

 revenue, but as the larger proportion goes 

 to the states in which they lie the actual 

 expense of maintenance is paid for by the 

 whole country. The states in which the 

 national forest reserves are situated are 

 Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, 

 Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Michi- 

 gan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mex- 

 ico, North Dakota, California, Oregon, 

 South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wy- 

 oming. Not one of the original thirteen 

 states, not one of the states that fought 

 the war of 1812, not one of the states that 

 assisted in the purchase of Florida or the 

 Louisiana country, not one of the states 

 with the exception of Florida that fought 

 the Mexican war ever received a dollar for 

 the conservation of forest lands from the 

 national treasury. 



The extensive forest reserves in the 

 West were taken out of the national do- 

 main and paid for by the whole country. 

 Common justice would dictate that the 

 South and East should also be taken care 

 of. The West is seeking further expendi- 

 ture on the part of the national govern- 

 .ment for the irrigation of her arid lands. 

 If the national treasury should provide for 

 the conservation of the forests of the W^est, 

 then also should the national government 

 assist in the establishment of national for- 

 est reserves in the Appalachian range in 

 the eastern part of the United States. 



We lumbermen and other citizens of the 

 East should join in this appeal for simple 

 justice and equity. The two things needed 

 then are: 1. An appeal to the legislature 

 for further appropriations to the state for- 

 estry department for the efficient prosecu- 

 tion of the work so well begun. 2. An 

 appeal to the Congress of the United States 

 for our Appalachian forest reserve. 



The officers were reelected: President, 

 Henry Palmer of Langhorne; vice-presi- 

 dent, F. S. Pyfer of Lancaster; treasurer, 

 T. J. Snowden of Scranton; secretary, J. 

 Frederick Martin of Philadelphia. 



