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THE FORESTER. 



January, 



take up other acres. It is said some- 

 thing like 10,000 acres have been 

 stripped of timber in the ten years of 

 the company's existence, the railroads 

 buying the lumber. The Government 



will demand a big round sum of the men 

 arrested and in the meantime the special 

 agents are investigating further into the 

 matter. Denver (Colo.) Post. 



Forest Policy. 



The much lamented denudation of the 

 famous "Presidential Range" in the 

 White Mountains seems to be in full 

 progress, according to reports emanat- 

 ing from that section. A year or more 

 ago it was reported that a deal had been 

 closed whereby this famous tract passed 

 into the hands of the Bartlett Lumber 

 Company, of Boston, whose mills are at 

 Bartlett, N. H. Forestry enthusiasts 

 held up their hands in horror, and the 

 press of the country printed column 

 after column of editorial comment, 

 pointing the finger of reproach at the 

 authorities of the old Granite State for 

 permitting a transaction which would 

 probably result in the denudation of that 

 world-famed range of mountains. We 

 learn that not less than eight distinct 

 logging crews have been sent into that 

 section to operate during the winter, 

 largely in the interest of the Bartlett 

 Lumber Company. If the intention of 

 the company is to strip the entire growth 

 from this spot much favored by tourists 

 their work will undoubtedly bring for- 

 ward loud and prolonged protests from 

 forestry interests, the general public and 

 the press of the country. Lumberman's 

 Review. 



Timber Cutting in Mississippi. 



Under the caption of "A Birthright 

 for a Mess of Pottage " The Timberman 

 has the following to say of the waste of 

 timber in Mississippi : 



Down in Sunflower and Bolivar Counties, 

 Mississippi, there is a practical exposition of 

 an uneconomical proposition that is so wide in 

 its scope and important in its influences as to 

 merit the serious attention of all hardwood 

 stum page holding and tapping railroads and 

 hardwood manufacturers. Both of these, as 



well as entire communities outside, are in this 

 connection such unnecessarily large sufferers 

 that they should adopt strong measures of re- 

 form. We refer to the getting out of pipe 

 staves and its effect on those mentioned. 



In the case in point it amounts to a frittering 

 away of the real and prospective assets of the 

 railroads tapping the territory named. It re- 

 duces the possible amount of forest product 

 tonnage to a minimum, indirectly damaging 

 the community and occasioning a loss to the 

 lumberman by depriving him of entrance into 

 a field peculiarly intended by nature to be the 

 scene of his operations. 



Than the Yazoo bottoms in Mississippi there 

 is, or rather was, probably no finer hardwood 

 timbered section on earth. In that portion of 

 it for miles on both sides of a line drawn from 

 Moorhead, on the Southern Railway, to Dun- 

 can, on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley branch 

 of the Illinois Central, there may now be 

 witnessed such operations as in this, as well 

 as numberless like sections, are wiping wide 

 expanses of territory from the map so far 

 as lumbermen are concerned, and all this at 

 little immediate profit and much future loss 

 to those short-sighted entities the railroads 

 who could, if they would, prevent it. 



The story of this locality is that of hundreds 

 of others. Several years ago Eastern parties 

 who had been attracted there settled at Moor- 

 head with the intention of developing the 

 heavily timbered country lying north. In 

 connection with this development a line of 

 railroad has up to this time been constructed 

 from Moorhead to Ruleville, a distance of 

 twenty miles. This road has been recently 

 purchased by the Illinois Central and will be 

 extended from Ruleville to the Yazoo & 

 Mississippi Valley Railroad, a further distance 

 of about twenty-five miles. Absolutely the 

 only natural resource of the country traversed 

 is timber, and the most liberal estimate that 

 can be made from the facts is that not to 

 exceed 10 per cent of as much of this as would 

 be available to the lumbermen will provide 

 revenue for the railroads; and even this per- 

 centage will not yield returns at all to be com- 

 pared with those from a like quantity of sawn 

 lumber. 



All of this, accompanied by the almost posi- 

 tive exclusion of lumbermen from the territory, 

 is the net result of conditions practically 

 created by the railroads, wherein the country 



