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exploring them, there has been so little aone that the 

 field is practically untouched. If of a scientific turn 

 permission can be secured from the government to ex- 

 plore and excavate some of them under certain reason- 

 able restrictions. If merely a passerby you can find 

 arrowheads of flint, obsidian and petrified wood scattered 

 about with apparently prodigal hand while pieces of rare 

 pottery, bone ornaments, specimens of torquoise the 

 prized jewel of these people, stone metates or grinding 

 stones, small bone and shell images of frogs and other 

 animals are frequently picked up after heavy rains or 

 found in the loose debris formed of the dust and refuse 

 of ages lying deep on the floors of so many of the houses. 

 Nor is the Canyon de los Frijoles the only one of inter- 

 est. A few miles north is the great pueblo ruin of Otowi 

 (Ot-o-we) containing over 700 rooms and possessed 

 of no less than ten large circular underground kivas. 

 Here also is the wonderful "Tent city of Otowi" the 

 peculiar conical tent like formation of tufa containing 

 hundreds of caves, natural and artificial, many having 

 been used as dwelling places. 



Not far from Otowi is the ancient pueblo ruin of 

 "Puye" (Pui-yea), "the place of cottontail rabbits." 

 Here on top of a large mesa or table land standing boldly 

 out in the midst of a fairly open country, they built a 

 pueblo of worked tufa rock, quarried from the nearby 

 cliffs, a most unusual type of pueblo construction, while 

 the face of the cliff or mesa below is, JEor half a mile or 



more, fairly honey-combed with cavate rooms bored into 

 it. In this the porch idea has been used extensively, 

 almost every room having the row of holes above it in- 

 dicating a porch attachment. Besides these individual 

 groups there is to be found on every mesa and in every 

 canyon, large and small throughout the monument region, 

 similar ruins in endless and interesting profusion. 



Here then, in this new-old Bandeleir National Monu- 

 ment, named for one of the world's greatest ethnologists 

 and archaeologists, who devoted his whole life to a study 

 of the Pueblo and his habitations both ancient and 

 modern, the seeker after ruins peculiarly American can 

 find them to his or her hearts content. 



The area contains about thirty thousand acres of prac- 

 tically uninhabited country, covered for the gi eater part 

 by a fine stand of yellow pine timber, gashed by deep 

 canyons, and fairly well watered. Within its boundaries 

 are types of pueblo ruins not found elsewhere and on 

 no other part of the southwest can they be seen in such 

 numbers and in such close proximity to each other. 



As for camping places, during the summer months the 

 Monument has endless charming spots where beneath the 

 fragrant pines and close to springs and clear running 

 streams the tourist may camp at his pleasure in a climate 

 (unsurpassed in the world for outdoor life, bracing, in- 

 vigorating and health-giving. Try it next summer for 

 that tired feeling. 



THE PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE IN FORESTRY 



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ber famine most serious is unavoidable. The second and 

 third are matters of investment and persistent effort cost- 

 ing hundreds of millions of dollars and many decades of 

 time. In this regulation of the existing woods we may 

 well follow the Old World and say : 

 Keep a forest on the land. - ' ' ' 



Never devastate, never cut large areas of forest bare; 

 never cut, say, over one-third of what there is now upon 

 the land, and never return to the same area with your cut 

 in less than twenty years. 



It might be interesting to follow this suggestion or plan 

 and see where it leads ; suffice it to say that if inaugurated 



at once we would still have a deficit of over two hundred 

 billion cubic feet at the end of the first twenty years, 

 nearly two hundred billion deficit at the end 

 of second 20 years, and the growth would not catch up 

 with our cut before the end of this century. 



The matter is serious, and all this talk of optional 

 measures, sectional and state action, all see-saw and com- 

 promise, and all talk of more study, more experiments, 

 more learning in silviculture, all these things, are of no 

 avail, they merely delay, they assure continued devasta- 

 tion, aggravate the timber famine already started, and 

 defer by decades the proper rebuilding of our forests. 



THE PINES OF THE SOUTH 



trial development of many civilized countries. Enormous 

 quantities of lumber have been harvested from these 

 trees, and yet in spite of the heavy cutting which has 

 been going on for many years they still produce more 

 than one-third of the total lumber cut of the entire coun- 

 try. But expert lumbermen and foresters predict that 

 the major supply of southern pine lumber will be cut 

 off in the next 10 or 15 years. It is now evident that 



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the present supply will be exhausted before long, and in 

 order that the lumber industry may maintain itself, it 

 is necessary that special efforts be put forth to protect 

 the pine forest of the South from fire and to restore a 

 forest growth upon the many thousand acres of barren 

 forest land now loafing in all parts of the southern 

 pineries. 



