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bill of half a billion dollars, and live in luxury. 



And so will the giant live and rule ; and when he dies 

 there will die with him the last remnant of the great 



material. And yet the nation's only hope. 



Probably never will the nation's needs be better filled 

 than then, but it will be the work of efficient pigmies, 



DR.AGGING OUT LOGS WITH A TEN-HORSE TEAM. A METHOD SUCCESSFULLY USED IN THE DOUGLAS 

 SPRUCE DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. THE GIANT OF THE PACIFIC COAST SLEEPS, BOUND 

 BY THE SHACKLES OF OVER-INVESTMENT AND CARRYING CHARGES, BUT WITH THE GRADUAL WEAKEN- 

 ING OP PRODUCTION IN THE SOUTH HE WILL SPRING INTO POWER AND RULE THE GREAT AMERICAN 

 LUMBER INDUSTRY WITH AN IRON HAND, UNTIL IT IS NO MORE. 



American lumber industry as we have known it. A lum- and the mighty giants we have known will be no more, 



ber industry there will always be, but a tame, prosaic (Many of the photographs used in this article zvere 



industry of puny operations, each tiny mill grinding out furnished A^nerican Forestry through the courtesy of 



its apportioned grist from a strictly limited supply of raw the United States Forest Service.) 



MAN-CAUSED FOREST FIRES ARE PREVENTABLE DO YOUR PART 



