1899. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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Annual Members Continued, 



Wendell M. Weston, Room 811, 53 State St., 

 Boston, Mass. 



J. M. Wilson, Secretary State Board of Ir- 

 rigation, Lincoln, Neb. 



C. M. Winslow, Brandon, Vt. 



Jos. Worcester, 1030 Valley St., San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. 



A. Wormser, Wormser City, Sweetgrass Co , 

 Mont. 



P. K. Yonge, Pensacola, Florida. 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



" Pitch Pine continues in capital de- marketing, but simply held as an invest- 

 mand " in London. ment. 



The agitation in the West for reforest- 

 ing denuded slopes and waste lands is a 

 hopeful sign for forest conservation. 



Large quantities of Mahogany are 

 being brought from the tropics to Balti- 

 more, Md., for finishing. 



The area and cost of the park lands in 

 Des Moines, Iowa, is computed as fol- 

 lows : West Des Moines, 340 acres at 

 an average cost of $330 an acre ; East 

 Des Moines, 112.55 acres at an average 

 of $364 an acre. 



Mahogany is said to have been brought 

 to England by Sir Walter Raleigh in 

 1595, but not to have come into general 

 use till 1720. 



President McKinley has issued the 

 necessary instructions to secure the ad- 

 mission of common Pine lumber into 

 Cuba free of duty. 



Eighty-three thousand acres of Pine 

 timber lands, near Pine Bluff, Ark., have 

 been sold for lumbering purposes at an 

 aggregate price of over half a million 

 dollars. This is said to be the largest 

 business deal of the kind in the history 

 of this section. 



Ten carloads of Black Walnut logs 

 were sold recently in Kentucky for ex- 

 port abroad, principally to London, Glas- 

 gow and Hamburg. 



A new railroad being constructed from 

 Hattiesburg to Jackson, Miss., will open 

 for development a very resourceful sec- 

 tion. The line runs for miles through 

 the virgin Pine forests. 



It is encouraging to note that the New 

 York State College of Forestry has suc- 

 ceeded in planting with valuable tree 

 growths the first fifty acres of burned 

 lands. The college expects to plant every 

 year at least 500 acres. This is the first 

 encouraging step toward reclaiming the 

 losses caused by forest fires. 



The United States has about 450,000,- 

 000 acres of forest, but this is being 

 rapidly depleted by the axe and by de- 

 structive fires. The Government is now 

 investigating means to prevent or control 

 the latter. 



The "Christmas Tree" Evergreen 

 has been adopted by the school children 

 of Montana, by a popular vote, as the 

 State tree. Much enthusiasm was dis- 

 played in the consideration of the sub- 

 ject, and the selection was made with 

 practical unanimity. 



Two thousand acres of timber lands, 

 covered with Fir and Cedar, in Skagit 

 County, Washington, have been sold to 

 Michigan capitalists for $36,000. It is 

 said that the timber will not be cut for 



An evidence of the fact that all the big 

 timber of the country does not come from 

 the Pacific Coast is found in a recent 

 letter to the editor of The Forester. 

 The writer tells of his firm cutting four 

 pieces of timber twenty-two by twenty- 

 four inches and sixty feet long, out of 

 White Pine. This timber was rafted 

 from Michigan the full length of the tree 



