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Taking the lead in the execution of this plan as fores- 

 ter a native of the region, for many years connected 

 with the Company's affairs, fulfilling a lifelong ambition 

 to promote the growing of timber, and because he sees 

 in it prosperity not only for his Company but his people, 

 putting his whole mind and heart into the work. Ad- 

 justments of interests involved are easy in his hands. 

 Enlightened and made friendly through employment, 

 through personal contact, through the schools, even by 

 dedication to their soldier dead of an area of newborn 

 longleaf pine, the country people follow him as they would 

 no other. And under him the Company's men playing 

 their several parts, safeguarding against fire, designating 

 the trees to be reserved for seed, and a whole logging 

 crew of the usual stamp, men of all sorts and of different 

 colors, but each to whom a share falls doing his work or 

 manipulating his machinery in a fashion to best carry out 

 the far-reaching plans of the Company. 



And as to the woods themselves these things : 



A stock of virgin timber sufficient to last the great 

 plants until new grown wood can be supplied. 



Young growth half way along in its development, not 

 general over the county indeed, but in some abundance, 

 nevertheless, and showing clearly what the soil will do. 



Close to town 800 acres fenced, protected from fire, 

 showing now the plants grown from seed of three species 

 of pines that were sown nearly a year ago, to be the show 

 place and site of trial and experiment. 



Lastly 5,000 acres on which fell and germinated the 

 long-leaf mast of 1920, fenced and protected too, green 

 now with a shade that is characteristic. 



To men whose minds were turned that ^ay, and so 

 open to receive impressions, those had here must have 

 been truly inspiring. And the thought that this enter- 

 prise is alone of its kind in the South or the countri 

 would not have been allowed too much weight ; such men 

 as the commission know that the times are changing in 

 favor of those with broad vision, who throw off the 

 shackles of past habits and ideas and look strongly into 

 the future. And the spirit of the thing, too, is of a kind 

 that is self propagating. 



Our country and its prosperity are bound up in its 

 forests! It is a big idea, worthy of an effort and allegi- 

 ance. But let us be sane and cheerful as we go about 



its propagation, seeing the good where we may, giving 

 credit where it is due, believing in a fortunate outcome 

 in spite of difficulties and setbacks. 



About forty leading lumbermen, timber owners, State 

 and Federal forestry and conservation officials and others 

 interested in perpetuating the forests of the South, put 

 in a busy two-day session at New Orleans. Fire protec- 

 tion and tax relief were the dominent questions discussed. 

 The advanced laws of Louisiana and the nationally known 

 experiments of Henry E. Hardtner at Urania, Louisiana, 

 and of the Great Southern Lumber Company at Boga- 

 lusa were also topics fully covered. 



On the return from Bogalusa, the party stopped off 

 at Slidell and inspected the excellent reproductions of the 

 Salsman Lumber Company. On return to New Orleans, 

 the Committee left for their homes. 



A party consisting of J. E. Rhodes, Secretary, and Man- 

 ager, Southern Pine Absociaition, W. DuB. Brookings, 

 Secretary of the Committee, J. W. Watzek, Jr., of the 

 Crosset Lumber Company, and A. G. T. Moore of the 

 Southern Pine Association made a special visit to the 

 properties of Hon. H. E. Hardtner, where they spent a 

 day in inspecting the results of this pioneer project in 

 reproducing Southern Pine. 



Members of the National Forestry Policy Committee 

 who attended the meeting were : D. L. Goodwillie, Chair- 

 man, Vice-President Goodwillie Brothers Box Manufac- 

 turers, Chicago; Dr. Hugh P. Baker, Vice-Chairman, 

 Secretary-Manager American Pulp and Paper Associa- 

 tion ; F. C. Knapp, President Peninsula Lumber Com- 

 pany, Portland, Oregon ; H. N. Shepard, President Mas- 

 sachusetts Forest Commission, Boston, Massachusetts ; 

 Dr. H. S. Drinker. Director of the American Forestry 

 Association and President Emeritus of Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, Philadelphia ; C. F. Quincy, Director of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association and President Q. & C. Com- 

 pany, New York; W. DuB. Brookings, Manager Natural 

 Resources Department of United States Chamber of 

 Commerce, Secretary of the Committee. 



The Comniittee in its investigation of forestry con- 

 ditions has traveled 9,999 miles and passed through thir- 

 ty-four states. 



The Committee will shortly submit a report to the 

 Chamber of Commerce on its nation-wide study of the 

 whole forestry question. 



Importing Wood For Newsprint 



npWO-THIRDS of the newsprint used in the United 

 ' States in 1920 was made from wood grown on foreign 

 soil. Out of more than 4,500,000 tons of wood pulp con- 

 sumed for all purposes 35 per cent came from foreign 

 markets. Over $191,000,000 was paid for the pulp wood, 

 wood pulp and paper imported. To this extent the United 

 States has become dependent upon markets outside its 

 control. This country can no longer draw its supply from 

 our rapidly disappearing eastern forests. As a result 

 primarily of forest depletion the cost of pulp wood rose 

 more than 110 per cent in the five-year period 1916- 



1920, and of wood pulp 35 per cent since 1918. These 

 and other facts are presented in a bulletin "Pulp Wood 

 Consumption and Wood Pulp Production, 1920," pre- 

 pared by the Forest Service in cooperation with the 

 American Pulp and Paper Association of New York. 

 Prior to 1909 practically all the paper consumed in this 

 country was manufactured here. This is no longer tnie. 

 The paper-making industry in the United States has 

 grown until its capitalization approaches the billion dol- 

 lar mark. "The trouble in brief," says the bulletin, "is 

 that we have mills without forests in the East and for- 



