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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



67 



THE FORESTER. 



PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Thk Forester is published monthly by the 

 American Forestry Association at 



No. 117 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C, 



where all communications should be addressed. 



The subscription price is One Dollar a year, 

 and single copies are sold at ten cents. 



Make all checks, drafts, etc., payable to The 

 Forester. 



New Members. 



Since the last issue of The Forester 

 the following named persons have been 

 elected to membership in the American 

 Forestry Association : 



Edward P. Brennan, 4018 Vincennes 

 Avenue, Chicago, 111. 



Mrs. Frederick Bronson, Greenfield 

 Hill, Conn. 



Dr. Arthur P. Chadbourn, North 

 Scituate, Mass. 



Mrs. Danske Dandridge, 2143 N St. 

 N. W., Washington, D. C. 



Lewis C. Flanagan, North Weymouth, 

 Mass. 



Prof. W. B. Graves, Andover, Mass. 



Charles Bulkley Hubble, Bank of 



Commerce Building, New York, N. Y. 



C. S. Hulbert, City Treasurer, Min- 

 neapolis, Minn. 



Bernard P. Mimmack, 1410 G St., 

 Washington, D. C. 



William G. Rockefeller, 292 Madison 

 Avenue, New York, N. Y. 



W. M. Shepardson, Middlebury, Conn. 



Two new vice presidents have been 

 elected by the Board of Directors : Prof. 

 Charles C. Georgeson, of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, who is stationed 

 at Sitka, Alaska, and Lieut. H. W. 

 French, U. S. Army, who is stationed at 

 Manila, P. I 



Opposition to Reservation. 



The following is from the El Paso 

 (Texas) Times, dated February 1 1 : 



A Santa Fe business man who was in El Paso 

 the other day let out the secret that a big scheme 

 is being hatched at Santa Fe and Albuquerque 

 to prevent the development of the new territory 

 being opened up by the El Paso & Northeastern 

 Railroad. 



It is said that the scheme originated in Albu- 

 querque and that Mr. Benedict, Superintendent 

 of Forestry for New Mexico and Arizona, has 

 been interested in the scheme. The Santa Fe 

 man who was in El Paso the other day stated 

 that the Government would be asked to set 

 aside as a forest preserve a strip of land ex- 

 tending from the Capitan Mountains, east of 

 White Oaks, to the Texas line, over 100 miles 

 in length and thirty miles wide. 



It is intended that this forest preserve shall 

 take in all of the Mescalero Indian reservation 

 and all ot that rich section of country through 

 which the White Oaks road now runs and is be- 

 ing built. Mr. Hawkins, attorney for tne road, 

 was asked what he knew about the proposition 

 and said: 



" I have heard some rumors to the effect that 

 a forest preserve would be asked for in the sec- 

 tion of country you mention, but I hope they 

 are merely idle rumors, for, if the Government 

 should take that land and close it up as a forest 

 preserve, it would simply be roping the people 

 who are investing their money there, and more, 

 it would be an outrage on the Territory of New 

 Mexico. I think it would be best not to men- 

 tion the matter, for I feel confident that if any 

 such movement is on foot the Department at 

 Washington can be relied upon to stand by the 

 people of New Mexico." 



It is understood that Mr. Benedict will be in 

 El Paso in a few days to make a trip through 

 the country which it is proposed to have set 

 aside as a forestry preserve. And it is a well- 

 known fact that of late years forest preserves- 

 have been a popular fad with the Land Depart- 

 ment, and in nearly every instance where a few 

 petitioners have asked for forest preserves the 

 petitions have been granted. The officials at 

 Washington seem to think that the agricultural 

 and timber lands of the West are not needed by 

 home c eekers and are only fit for forest or game 

 preserves. 



But if this latest forestry scheme is carried 

 into execution it will cost El Paso millions of 

 dollars by making useless one of the richest 

 sections of New Mexico, which is now being 

 developed and made tributary to El Paso, while 

 it would not interfere with the development of 

 the mineral lands of that section, it would tie 

 up the timber and agricultural lands and close 

 the fine cattle ranges. Those ranges would 

 market in El Paso every year thousands of 

 head of cattle and large quantities of wool, 

 and the agricultural lands would furnish thou- 



