employing over one hundred wage earners, 

 thirty-three were engaged in the lumber 

 industry. 



Oregon's timber pays a large part of the taxes 

 of the State ; in some counties the bulk of them. 



During the coming thirty years, next to land 

 itself, the lumber industry will be the greatest 

 factor in advancing the industrial development 

 of the State and in creating and maintaining 

 prosperity. 



Approximately 4,000,000 acres of Oregon 

 timber, comprising 160,000,000,000 board feet 

 more than one-third of the present stand, has so 

 far been destroyed by fire. This timber, if stand- 

 ing, would be worth at least $240,000,000.00, and 

 would pay annual tax of $2,000,000.00, where 

 now practically no tax revenue is derived. 



For every thousand feet of timber burned, 

 the owner loses the value of the stumpage, 

 about $2.00, while the public loses about $8.00, 

 the amount that would have been expended for 

 labor and supplies in manufacturing it into 

 lumber. 



Forest Protection Work Conducted by 

 Timber Owners and the State 



The present Forestry Board was created in 

 1911. It is a nonpolitical board, composed of 

 the Governor, head of the Forest School at the 

 Oregon Agricultural College, and five additional 

 members, each representing and selected by one 

 of the following organizations: Oregon State 

 Grange, Oregon Forest Fire Association, Oregon 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, United 

 States Forest Service, Oregon Woolgrowers' 

 Association. 



Because four times as much timber has been 

 burned as has been manufactured and because 



