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almost pure molybdenum. A hospitable cook had only 

 to suggest once that we tie up for lunch. 



Just above the mine is located one of the most impres- 

 sive waterfalls we have ever seen. We ventured to call 

 it Terrace Falls. The photograph does not do justice 

 to it. From the camp the falls appear to spring boldly 

 out from the cliff, the face of which is indented by a series 

 of irregular shelves or terraces over which the water is 

 dashed into foam and spume. The entire drop must be 

 fully a thousand feet and the volume is quite large. 



From this point a backward look showed us the tiny 

 valley wherein we had camped and distant Hart Lake be- 

 yond nestling between granite mountains. 



Cloudy Pass, reached over a Forest Service trail, of- 

 fered no great obstacles except at one spot where a fallen 

 tree held us up until the ax had cleared the way. 



The attainment of the summit was too easy for what 

 we found there. We would have been willing to pay for 

 the sight which met our eye by strenuous labor had pay- 

 ment been required. The view was by far the finest on 

 our trip. Lofty mountain ranges topped by peaks soar- 

 ing into the clouds snow tipped, dressed in glaciers, deep 

 canyons through which we looked out upon wide valley 

 and plain and forest spread out before us. Here was in 



truth the top of the world, a world of light and color 

 and beauty indescribable. Before our eyes had grown 

 satisfied with the view a driving snowstorm blew up 

 the pass and hastened our return to the valley. 



Early the following day we started back to Lucerne, 

 on the shores of Lake Chelan. Reaching our destina- 

 tion early that evening we loaded our equipment on the 

 good launch Ranger and headed for Chelan and civi- 

 lization again. 



Our exploration of Chelan and its wonders will keep 

 for another time. Because I know every true nature 

 lover will want to make a trip to Lyman Glacier I'm 

 going to tell you how to do it. 



To reach Chelan on the lake you travel by rail to the 

 station at Chelan, Washington, where the auto bus meets 

 you for Chelan. Take a boat here for Lucerne on the 

 lake. Here pack horses and guides are obtainable and 

 camp outfits are provided. From Lucerne your route 

 will be on an abandoned railway grade up Railway creek 

 to Hart Lake, and thence over the forest trail to Lyman 

 Glacier and Cloudy Pass. No hardships will be met, 

 the mileage is not great, but the ever-varying scenery, 

 much of which approaches the sublime, contributes to 

 make the trip one of enduring memory. 



PINE ROOTS AND POTATOES 



(Continued from page 173.) 



is over, Germany can theoretically once more obtain 

 food from the outside world, but the depreciation of the 

 Mark has made it very difficult for her to import any 

 quantity, and only the wealthiest can afford the luxury 

 of an all round diet. The poor still subsist upon pota- 

 toes, and row upon row may still be seen growing along 

 with pine seedlings on the cut-over patches. 



There are some in America who think that forestry 

 and agriculture are so widely divergent as to make 

 it advisable to divorce them, and place them under sepa- 

 rate governmental departments. Yet the nearer we come 

 to the enforced practice of forest conservation, such as 



has been the long established feature of continental Eu- 

 ropean nations, the more we are obliged to recognize the 

 close relation between the two sciences. In practically 

 every nation on the earth wherever agriculture and for- 

 estry are both extensively practiced, both are regarded 

 as a phase of agriculture, and both farms and forests 

 are centralized under a single department. Among the 

 wood-using industries of America, sentiment is turning 

 more and more toward forest conservation and growth. 

 Prlactical intensive forestry on a commercial basis is 

 for us not very far ahead, and no section of the Ameri- 

 can people will be more affected thereby than the farmers 

 of the country. 



MATCH MAKING 



Many types of machinery are used for match making. 

 To ])roduce the matches, the boxes into which they are 

 packed and the labeling of boxes requires a very in- 

 genious mechanism. There must be machines for cut- 

 ting the lumber into strips and small blocks, for dip- 

 ping the sticks, drying the matches, and packing and 

 labeling the boxes. Wood for the production of matches 

 and match splints must be easily worked and capable 

 of producing a moderate flame and must also have the 

 cai)acity of holding and dipping material well. The 

 I'nited States is the only country in the world which 

 makes and uses a round match. For this purpose white 

 pine is used in great quantities. The industry calls for 

 2-inch boards or deals of clear stock free from all defects. 



The soft wood of clear white pine is necessary for this 

 process because the machines in common practice punch 

 the sticks from blocks of the proper length. The square 

 matches of the "safety" type, which are commonly used 

 throughout foreign countries, and to an increasing ex- 

 tent in the United States, are made by turning logs into 

 veneer and chopping the veneer into suitable sizes for 

 the splints. Basswood and aspen are the species mainly 

 employed. While the United States produces its own 

 square matches to some extent, over 5,000,000 gross of 

 boxes are imported annually. Spruce veneer is used in 

 the manufacture of the paper-covered wooden boxes. 

 Daily Bulletin, Soutfiwestern District, U. S. Forest 

 Service. 



