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"The experience we are gaining each year 

 in the prevention and control of forest fires 

 is greatly reducing the loss of timber from 

 this cause. Our interest in the stumpage 

 value of this timber is a mere bagatelle as 

 compared with the interest of the community 

 at large, for it is safe to say that in logging 

 and manufacturing the timber now standing 

 in the five northern counties of Idaho not 

 less than $200,000,000, and more likely $300.- 

 000,000, will be paid out in the one item of 

 wages to residents. 



"Any one of the 322 forest fires which we 

 successfully fought in igop with but small 

 loss, or in fact any one of the thousands of 

 small fires which were discovered by our 

 patrolmen before any serious damage had 

 been done, had it not been for the most ex- 

 cellent work of our men, might have devel- 

 oped into conflagrations which would have 

 swept away hundreds of thousands of dollars 

 of our investments, millions in the wages of 

 our employes and caused untold loss in life 

 and property of the residents of the locality. 



"The moral as well as the financial sup- 

 port of the state board of land commissioners 

 has been a potent factor in the success of 

 the last year, as well as in previous years." 



These trustees were elected for the North 

 Idaho Forestry Association : President, A. 

 W. Laird, Potlatch Lumber Company, re- 

 elected ; vice-president, J. P. McGoldrick, 

 McGoldrick Lumber Company; secretary- 

 treasurer, W. D. Humiston, Potlatch Lumber 

 Company ; T. J. Humbird, Humbird Lumber 

 Company ; C. P. Lindsley, Craig Mountain 

 Lumber Company; E. N. Brown, Clearwater 

 Lumber Company, and A. L. Flewelling, 

 Monarch Lumber Company. 



The Potlatch Association elected A. W. 

 Laird, president ; George A. Day, vice-presi- 

 dent, and W. D. Humiston, secretary and 

 treasurer. The directors are G. A. Day, C. H. 

 Fancher, E. N. Brown, G. A. Rubedew and 



A. W. Laird. The president announced that 

 the loss from fire in the Potlatch district 

 last year was practically nothing, notwith- 

 standing the danger caused by the clearing of 

 a right of way for the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & Puget Sound Railway. 



At the meeting of the Clearwater Fire 

 Protective Association the following officers 

 were elected : President, E. N. Brown ; vice- 

 president, G. A. Day; secretary and treasurer, 



B. E. Bush. The directors are E. N. Brown, 

 G. A. Day, W. M. Deary and George R. 

 Schofield. 



The meetings were attended by James Tur- 

 rish, Western Land Company; G. A. Rube- 

 dew, Rupp & Holland ; E. M. Hoover, Pay- 

 ette Lumber and Manufacturing Company ; 

 F. A. Silcox, acting district forester, district 

 No. i, Forest Service; F. H. Fancher, Mil- 

 waukee Land Company ; J. P. McGoldrick, 

 McGoldrick Lumber Company ; A. W. Laird, 

 Potlatch Lumber Company; E. N. Brown, 

 Clearwater Lumber Company ; T. J. Hum- 

 bird, Humbird Lumber Company; W. D. 

 Humiston, Potlatch Lumber Company; 



F. J. Davis, Edward Rutledge Timber Com- 

 pany ; George A. Day, state land commis- 

 sioner ; B. E. Brush, state of Idaho, and 

 W. G. Weigle, government supervisor of the 

 Coeur d'Alene forest reserve. 



Kansas 



The Arbor Day proclamation of Governor 

 Stubbs of Kansas, deserves perpetuation as 

 an appreciative eulogy of the tree : 



ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION 



"The genial days of spring call to our 

 memory again the duty we owe to that an- 

 cient and useful friend of man the tree. 



"In all ages of the world it has been true 

 to our interest and loyal to our service. It 

 has furnished the cradles and coffins of our 

 ancestors; tables for the king and cottager 

 alike. It has given comfort and shelter to 

 the peasant and the prince to the pauper and 

 the potentate. 



"Trees are the royal family of the vegeta- 

 ble kingdom. Neither the quarry nor the 

 mine has done more for civilization than the 

 forest. Neither stone nor steel can outlive 

 or outrival the usefulness of the tree. It 

 is more useful to civilization than silver 

 more valuable to civilization than gold. It 

 gives us food and fire and shelter; it gives us 

 books and newspapers and a greater variety 

 of the necessities and luxuries of life than any 

 other article of ancient or modern commerce. 



"Trees have always figured in our divine and 

 patriotic relations. Among them the religion 

 of man was born. Groves were the first 

 cathedrals of our race. Birds singing in their 

 boughs and branches gave us the first idea 

 of sacred music and the choir. God planted 

 them in Eden for the sustenance of our first 

 parents. From their leaves were fashioned 

 the first garments that covered their naked- 

 ness. When God's displeasure threatened 

 the extinction of our race Noah looked into 

 the forest and found there the means of sal- 

 vation. It was under the oak tree that Jeho- 

 vah conversed with a great man in Israel. 

 It was in the tree tops that David heard the 

 voice of the Lord. It was among the palms 

 of the Garden of Gethsemane that Jesus spent 

 the last evening of his life. The battle for 

 American freedom was consummated under 

 the apple tree of Appomattox. 



"For centuries, and until man came to 

 profit by its use, nature denied the tree to 

 the greater part of Kansas. We are now 

 learning how it conserves the moisture in our 

 soil, that it changes and modifies our climate, 

 that it gives beauty and charm to our land- 

 scape, that it can solve the problem of slides 

 and drifts and floods, that it influences our 

 civilization and adds materially to the wealth 

 and happiness of the people. 



"Therefore, I, W. R. Stubbs, Governor of 

 the State of Kansas, in accordance with the 



