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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A Forest Fire Engine 

 that weighs 74 lbs. 



'T'HE Northern Forest Fire Engine 

 tured above can be packed by one 

 man and will throw 20 gallons of 

 water per minute at 90 pounds pres- 

 sure. It has no grease cups, being 

 lubricated by the Alemite System. 

 All gasoline and cooling connections 

 are made with flexible metal tubing 

 guaranteed not to break or leak from 

 vibration. The Machine's special 

 base anchors it wherever you put it. 

 No need to bolt it down Just set it 

 on the ground and start it. 



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-MORI OALLONS PER HORSE POWER" 



We also manufacture a 2-cylinder, 

 2-man Northern Forest Fire Engine 

 that will deliver 35 gallons of water 

 per minute at 90 pounds pump pres- 

 sure weight 140 pounds. Both ma- 

 chines have the advanced features 

 of construction described above. 



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Excerpts, Magazines of Early 



Dates, With a Few 



Books. 



All in excellent condition and re- 

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REDWOOD GROVE DEDICATED 



A grove of magnificent redwood trees in 

 Humboldt County, California, has been 

 dedicated to the memory of Col. R. C. Boil- 

 ing, the first American officer of high rank 

 killed in the World War. In an address at 

 the dedication ceremony Madison Grant, 

 councillor of the "Save the Redwoods 

 League" said : 



"Let us on this solemn occasion in dedi- 

 cating this grove of Redwoods to the mem- 

 ory of Colonel Boiling resolve that we 

 shall continue the effort to preserve for 

 those that come after us some portion of 

 the heritage that was ours. 



"Xo more destructive animal has ever 

 appeared on the face of the earth than the 

 American back-woodsman with his ax and 

 his rifle. Since the Civil War, we have 

 plundered half a continent. No such de- 

 struction since Caesar plundered Gaul has 

 been accomplished in like time. In fifty 

 years we have killed all the animals of the 

 plain that in their millions had lived there 

 for tens of thousands of years. The bison 

 has long since gone, except where protected. 

 The antelope is all but gone, the herds of 

 elk are dwindling fast, and your mighty 

 California grizzly is utterly extinct, so that 

 even a battered skull is a highly prized 

 trophy for a museum. The smaller animals 

 and birds are many of them verging on ex- 

 tinction. Our fish in their abundance have 

 utterly disappeared from many streams in 

 the East, and if it were not for artificial 

 restocking, would have entirely vanished. 

 In many parts of the country, like the Red 

 River Valley, the richest soil known to man 

 has been exhausted in a generation. 



"But bad as this slaughter of life has 

 been, much of it can be restored if only 

 we have a place of refuge for it when it is 

 brought back. That refuge can be only 

 the forests, and what have we done with 

 our forests? Chopped them, and burned 

 them, and wasted them ; and now almost 

 the last of the great stands of timber are 

 here on the Pacific slope. We are in the 

 center of the best of them. Probably no- 

 where on earth does there exist a forest 

 to compare in continuous grandeur and un- 

 qualified beauty with the Redwoods that 

 are found along the Eel River and to the 

 north. We have reason to believe that no 

 finer forest ever did exist on earth during 

 the millions of years since vegetable life 

 first appeared. It is, therefore, not merely 

 a privilege, but it is a sacred duty for 

 .Americans to guard and to preserve what 



little is left of this heritage our fathers so 

 cheerfully wasted. This is not a matter 

 of sentimentalism. It is not a vague ideal- 

 ism. It is a reality. These trees are part 

 of our national monuments, our national 

 inheritance, of far more value to ourselves 

 and to those who come after us than any 

 of the works of man." 



MAKING PACKING BOXES 



Among the secondary wood-using in- 

 dustries the manufacture of packing boxes 

 ranks first in New York State. This use 

 of wood includes box shooks, packing 

 boxes, piano and organ shipping boxes, 

 packing crates, and all kinds of material 

 used in the industrial establishments for 

 storage and shipment of factory products, 

 according to a bulletin issued by the New 

 York State College of Forestry. 



New York being the Empire State in 

 manufacturing, the demand for boxes in 

 which to crate and ship the output of the 

 factories is natuially large. The annual 

 consumption of lumber in the manufacture 

 of boxes in New York amounts to 324.- 

 219,000 board feet. This surpassed the lum- 

 ber used in planing mills by 94.000,000 

 feet in 1919, the last date for which com- 

 parative records have been obtained. 



Adding to the amount of wood used in 

 the class of containers, just described, may 

 be placed baskets, berry crates, and minor 

 packages which brings the quantity of 

 lumter used up to 332,746,000 board feet. 

 These figures do not include the cigar and 

 tobacco box industry nor the wood used in 

 cooperage. 



LEHMAN CAVES NATIONAL MONU- 

 MENT 

 By a proclamation of President Harding, 

 signed January 24, a 593-acre tract in the 

 Nevada National Forest was set aside as 

 the Lehman Caves National Monument. 

 For twenty-five years these caves have 

 been known locally, and for some time 

 individuals have been trying to gain control 

 of them, but the action of the Chief Execu- 

 tive retains them safely for all the people 

 and prevents the destruction of the many 

 objects of scenic and scientific value. The 

 area remains a part of the National Forest, 

 but the monument can be used for no pur- 

 poses that interfere with its preservation 

 as a national monument. It is the eleventh 

 national monument to be established in a 

 National Forest, and the first one in Ne- 

 vada. 



A YEAR-AROUND SERVICE 



You can order Books through our Book Service Department at a Sav- 

 ing of 10 per cent. This offer holds good any time during the year to mem- 

 bers of the American Forestry Association. 



