750 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



that it would be denied and that the rail- 

 road company would fight the case up to the 

 court of last resort. 



Northern Forest Protective Association 



At a meeting of prominent Michigan tim- 

 ber land owners in Marquette, November 5, 

 the Northern Forest Protective Association 

 was organized. This association has for its 

 object, as stated in the article of incorpora- 

 tion, "The preservation of the forests of the 

 States of Michigan and Wisconsin generally 

 and particularly from loss by forest fires, 

 and the enlistment of the aid of the United 

 States of America and the States of Michi- 

 gan and Wisconsin in preserving said forests 

 and preventing their destruction by fire, and 

 all other objects which will promote the 

 main objects as herein set out or incident 

 thereto." 



The chairman of the meeting was Thorn- 

 ton A. Green, of the Greenwood Lumber 

 Company of Ontonagon, and the secretary, 

 W. C. Howe, of the American Lumbermen. 

 The meeting was addressed by J. C. Sher- 

 man, of Marquette ; Thomas B. Wyman, for- 

 ester of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company; 

 A. E. Miller, attorney for the J. C. Ayer 

 estate, of Marquette; R. S. Kellogg, of Wau- 

 sau, Wisconsin, secretary of the Northern 

 Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation ; C. H. Worcester, of Chicago, of 

 the Worcester Lumber Company ; F. H. 

 Smith, of Traverse City; A. F. Kolpcke, of 

 Marquette, of the Peter White Land Com- 

 pany, and H. R. Harris, of Marquette, of the 

 Munising railway. The following officers 

 were elected : President, T. A. Green, Onto- 

 nagon, Michigan ; vice-president, C. V. R. 

 Townsend, Negaunee, Mich. ; secretary, T. B. 

 Wyman, Munising, Mich.; treasurer, J. C. 

 Sherman, Marquette, Mich.; directors, C. H. 

 Worcester, Chicago, 111.; G. A. Goodman, 

 Marinete, Wis. ; W. H. Johnson, Ishpem- 

 ing, Mich. 



In accordance with the method of similar 

 associations, the expenses are to be defrayed 

 by assessments levied by the directors upon 

 the total acreage of timber lands of the 

 members. 



Insurance Against Loss by Forest Fires 



A recent news item from Canada records 

 the insurance by Lloyds, of London, of six 

 thousand square miles of timber lands 

 against loss by forest fires. This, the first 

 insurance of the kind ever effected on this 

 continent, so far as we know, has been taken 

 out by one of the largest timber land owners 



in the province of Quebec, Price Bros. & Co., 

 Ltd., of the city of Quebec. This new form of 

 insurance was brought to the attention of 

 financial circles in Montreal and Toronto 

 recently when Price Bros, announced the is- 

 sue of $5,000,000 of five per cent, bonds on 

 their properties. The issue is to cover the 

 expansion of their lumber business into a 

 paper making company, with a 150 ton news- 

 paper mill now being built by Jonquieres, 

 Que., in the Lake St. John region, where 

 they are developing 15,000 horse-power. The 

 insurance of their enormous holdings of 

 timber lands against fire is intended as ad- 

 ditional security to the bondholders. It cov- 

 ers a term of thirty years. 



Insurance of timber lands against loss 

 by fire has been regarded as impossibile ex- 

 cept at prohibitive rates. It has remained 

 for the redoubtable and unterrified Lloyds to 

 prove the contrary. Timber land owners 

 will be interested to know the terms on 

 which this insurance was placed. 



The Taxless Town 



There is a little town in Sweden by the 

 name of Orson. Orson. And Orson is one 

 of the greatest towns in the world. 



Of course Orson isn't as BIG as London, 

 or New York, or Bagdad, or perhaps Osh- 

 kosh. But Orson has done something that 

 none of the so-called "great" cities of the 

 world has ever done. 



Orson has dodged all local taxes success- 

 fully and honestly. 



The Orson railway is free to every citizen 

 of the town. 



The telephone service is free. 



Schools and libraries cost the citizens ab- 

 solutely nothing. 



All because, a generation or two ago, the 

 patriotic people of Orson planted trees. Or- 

 son has a municipal forest that has yielded the 

 town $5,000,000 in the past thirty years. 



And the $5,000,000 has paid the running 

 expenses of the town. 



Of course there isn't anything to hinder 

 any American town from doing the same 

 thing. But we don't notice any American 

 town doing it. To date Milwaukee seems 

 to be the only American town that has even 

 thought about it. 



But it's worth thinking about, isn't it? 



Also it might be worth while to consider 

 at the same time the fact that while Orson 

 was paying her municipal expenses for the 

 past year from the proceeds of her well-kept 

 forest, the American nation, through neglect 

 of her forests, was suffering a loss of two 

 hundred million dollars and more than a 

 hundred lives. Boston Traveler. 



