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THE FORESTER. 



July, 



A. W. Belding, for four years forest 

 ranger of the Biscotasing district of On- 

 tario, under the Canadian Government, 

 died suddenly several weeks ago. He 

 was an expert lumberman previous to his 

 official service. 



The passing of the axeman from the 

 Michigan and Wisconsin fields to the 

 South, is becoming something like an 

 exodus. Among other recently an- 

 nounced purchases by Northern lumber- 

 men is a tract of 160,000 acres of Pine 

 timber lands in Calcasieu Parish, Lou- 

 isiana. 



The successful propagation and growth 

 of forest trees is admirably exemplified 

 in the Farlington Tree Plantation, in 

 Crawford County, Kansas. After nearly 

 two decades of experimentation on two 

 tracts of land, specially set apart for the 

 purpose, there is ample evidence of what 

 can be accomplished when scientific 

 methods are employed. 



The planting was completed hardly 

 more than a dozen years ago and since 

 then the only attention given to either 

 of the tracts has been to keep out the.fire 

 and to cut out the small inferior trees. 



One of the leading forest experts in 

 Scotland. M. Malcolm Dunn, died re- 

 cently. He wrote frequently upon for- 

 est, horticultural, and literary topics af- 

 fecting Scotland. For many years he 

 had been in charge of the grounds of 

 Dalkeith Palace, one of the Scotch es- 

 tates of the Duke of Buccleuch. 



Forest Fires. 



Marquette, Mich. Forest fires'-.are 

 burning north of Bessemer, the entire 

 range being under a dense cloud [of 

 smoke. 



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Four hundred million feet of standing 

 Pine in Lake County, Minn , have been 

 sold to former U. S. Senator Vilas and 

 Col. J. H. Knight, of Wisconsin, for one 

 million dollars. The sale is one of great 

 importance to the prosperity of the towns 

 bordering on Lake Superior, and North- 

 ern Wisconsin in general. 



Bangor. Me. A fierce fire has raged 

 in the woods along the line of the Mount 

 Desert Branch R. R. near the Green 

 Point road. 



North Eastham, Mass. The forest 

 fire in this section swept a territory of 

 1,600 acres, causing a loss of between 

 $12,000 and $15,000. 



The aggressive and successful prose- 

 cution of a pulp and paper company for 

 pollution of the Potomac River, has led 

 to the formation of a board of trade by 

 residents of Piedmont and Iuka. W. Ya.. 

 and Western Port, Md.. near by, to pre- 

 vent opposition to lumbering enterprises 

 which may be induced to locate there. 



Brewer, Me. A forest fire started on 

 the Bar Harbor Railroad, at the top of 

 Brewer grade, and burned fiercely ; but 

 spreading into a dead woodland district 



little damage was done. 



Santa Fe, N. M. Forest fires have 

 recently done great damage in the Jemez 

 and Via Mountains, destroying thousands 

 of dollars' worth of timber. The fires 

 can be seen for many miles. 



The consolidation of the interests of 

 five Michigan lumbermen, and the capi- 

 talization of a company at $550,000, is 

 announced, for the purpose of buying 

 and selling lands and timber, principally 

 in the Parishes of Calcasieu, Vernon, 

 and Rapides, Louisiana. The present 

 holdings amount to 143,000 acres, for 

 which an aggregate amount of $900,000 

 was paid. 



Kanab, Utah. Three immense forest 

 fires swept Buckskin mountains, in 

 northern Arizona and southern Utah. 

 Over 100 square miles of timber on the 

 Grand Canon forest reserve were de- 

 stroyed. 



Lewiston, Me. A crew of twenty-one 

 men were sent by Street Commissioner 

 Murphy to the farms on the Noname 



