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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE SPIRIT OF A LONG GONE AGE STILL INVESTS THIS SPOT WITH BEAUTY AND ROMANCE 

 In Apache land, near Roosevelt, there is a canyon named Pueblo, which is a thousand feet deep or more. Near its source the fforge is so narrow 

 that a stone can be thrown from one wall to another, and here the ancient Cliit Dwellers built their homes in great caverns that gave out on 

 similar caves across the canyon. Among these crumbling ruins, which still speak strongly of the lives they sheltered, one feels most keenly the 

 mystery of a race forgotten, long vanished from the eartli. 



We struggle for gain and advancement, and tlie suc- 

 cess attained is generally at the expense of bodily health 

 and spiritual vision. "What shall it profit a man, if he 

 shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" 



And yet, if there is merit in the contention that en- 

 vironment is a potent factor in man's development, how 

 shall he save it from shrinking unless he sometime walks 

 out of the sordid city streets into the open spaces where 

 he can see and think in three dimensions? 



If the body is afflicted with disease we may have re- 



course to the family physician ; but if the soul is sick go 

 to the mountain. He is a soul doctor. He will purge you 

 with the sight of yawning chasms, lofty towering peaks 

 and cliffs, and when your reeling senses have settled 

 down to the correct realization of proportion and the 

 relative importance of things, he will nurse you through 

 spiritual convalescence with azure skies, samphire lakes, 

 scented forests, mountain meadows, tumbling cascades, 

 and the health-giving ozone that God gave, to be breathed 

 by man created in His image. 



CTATISTICS compiled by the National Lumber 

 *^ Manufacturers' Association show that during the 

 12 months ending July 31 the mills reporting cut 15,- 

 602,000,000 feet of lumber and shipped 15,741,000,000 

 feet, or 8.9 per cent more than production. Shipments 

 for the first seven months of this year were 7.7 per cent 

 more than last year, with no increase in cut. During 

 July of this year 732 mills in all parts of t'l? cointry 

 and operating in all kinds of timber, cut 1,339,000,000 

 feet and shipped 1,566,000,000 feet, or 12.7 par cent 

 more than production. The cut in July this year was 1.3 

 per cent less than July last year, with shipments 19.6 

 per cent greater. 



A FTER generations of protection from the ax of 

 -^*- woodsmen, thirty-five acres of fine old oak trees near 

 Whig Lane, New Jersey, have been dedicated to the build- 

 ing of the Government's Emergency Fleet. Many of the 

 trees reach a height of 60 to 70 feet and they are supposed 

 to be from 150 to 200 years of age. The land on which 

 they grow has been in the Richman family since the early 

 settlement of Western New Jersey. It was only with the 

 need of the United States for timbsr for shipbuilding 

 that the consent of the family was obtained for cutting 

 the trees. The largest oaks are cut into big beams and 

 material for keels. A yield of 2,000,000 feet of lumber is 

 expected. 



