1899. 



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trouble with the owners of saw-mills in 

 the hills, who have been cutting down 

 timber on public land. 



John Norris was arrested by Deputy 

 Marshal Crocker, twelve miles north of 

 Florissant, El Paso County, charged with 

 cutting the prohibited timber. He was 

 taken before James B. Severy, United 

 States Commissioner, Colorado Springs, 

 and gave $500 bonds. Denver {Colo.) 

 Republican, March 2. 



the Federal Building. He was assistant 

 postmaster at Momence, 111., where his 

 father was postmaster; but his health 

 was not good because of the confining 

 work, and he came West. Santa Fe New 

 Mexican. 



Forest Superintendent W. H. Bun- 

 tain, successor of J. D. Benedict, is 

 actively at work in his new position at 



The Leader learns that Superintendent 

 E. B. Hyde, of the forest reserve, on 

 Friday seized a lot of logs near Twenty- 

 five Mile creek, belonging to Jerry Dun- 

 lee, on the charge that they were illegally 

 cut on the reserve. Chelan {Wash.) 

 Leader. 



Forest Policy. 



The National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association held its annual 

 meeting at Boston, Mass., during the 

 first week in March. The meeting was 

 concluded by the usual banquet, and 

 among the speakers on that occasion was 

 the Hon. John M. Woods, of Boston, a 

 member of the Massachusetts Forestry 

 Association, who was introduced to 

 speak concerning a lumberman's interest 

 in forestry. Mr. Woods said, in part: 



"Gentlemen, I want to say to you here 

 that you think perhaps in some parts of 

 the country the lumber business is old. 

 I want to say to you here that you are 

 meeting here to-night on the anniversary 

 of the first exportation of lumber from 

 the United States 200 years ago from 

 this part of the country the first cargo 

 was sent abroad. 



"As the chairman has said, I have one 

 or two specialties. I will touch on only 

 one of them now. The first is on the 

 lumber business the forestry of the 

 United States, and something about the 

 legislation that has taken place in this 

 country. As you know, the Pilgrims 

 landed in 1620, and in 1631 eleven 

 years afterward the first law that was 

 ever made in this country was passed in 

 regard to it. It was enacted by the Pil- 

 grim colony that there should be no fires 

 set on the Lord's day and that any one 

 that set any fire, if it did any damage, 



should pay ten shillings or be publicly 

 whipped In 1639 it was further enacted 

 that no man should set a fire on the 

 Lord's day, the last day of the week, and 

 if he did, and it did any damage, he 

 should be required to pay a fine of forty 

 shillings, and if it were done by a minor 

 his parents or guardians should pay. In 

 1697 the first effort was made to find out 

 the value of woods in North America. 

 The English Government sent a commis- 

 sion here. The chairman was Mr. 

 Bridges, who was a ship builder in the 

 English dock yard at Portsmouth. He 

 came here under a royal commission, and 

 the commission read that he was to ascer- 

 tain the conveniences of the woods of 

 North America for furnishing woods for 

 the royal navy. In 1699 the first cargo 

 was shipped abroad. The largest part 

 of this cargo was cut on the Piscataquis 

 River, a little river that runs up from 

 Portsmouth, N. H., about forty miles 

 from here. 



"There was no further legislation to 

 amount to anything during the colonial 

 period, and there never has been since 

 to amount to anything. In 1743 Gov- 

 ernor Wentworth, of the territory of New 

 Hampshire, was appointed commissioner 

 of all his majesty's woods in North 

 America. You can have some idea, gen- 

 tlemen, of the size of his commission. 

 The king instructed the commissioners 



