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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



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Surveying Forest Lands. 



A party of engineers left Albany, N. Y . . 

 the latter part of July to survey the tract 

 of forest land in the Adirondack^, re- 

 cently given by the State to Cornell 

 University for forest experimentation. 

 The land consists of 30,000 acres in 

 townships Nos. 23 and 26 of Franklin 

 County, in the vicinity of Saranac Lake. 

 The purchase of this tract, a year ago, 

 consumed the greater part of the appro- 

 priation ($500,000) made by the Legis- 

 lature of 1898 for the extension of forest 

 preserves. 



Counterfeiting Nature. 



Entertaining in "shanty style" is the 

 up-to-date method of affording recrea- 

 tion for one's friends in the lumbering 

 districts of Canada. Recently a wealthy 

 lumberman took two hundred prominent 

 guests to his estate in the woods, where 

 modern conveniences were disdained for 

 the novel experience of a real shanty 

 dinner," with demonstrations of life in 

 a lumber camp. All the scenes were 

 represented on a beautiful lawn, which 

 for the time being was entirely trans- 

 formed into a wilderness which rivaled 

 the primeval forest. 



Canadian Incentive for Forest Study. 



The Commissioner of Crown Lands 

 for Ontario offers a prize of $10 for a 

 paper on "The Forestry Problem as 

 Applied to Ontario," to be written by 

 a graduate of the School of Practical 

 Science. No restriction is made as to 

 choice of subject. It may relate to the 

 engineering phase of forestry, to forest 

 fires and prevention, timber cutting, 

 forest reproduction, or any other allied 

 subject. 



Papers are not to exceed 2.000 words, 

 and the successful manuscript is to be- 

 come the property of the Bureau of 

 Forestry for publication in the annual 

 report. Manuscripts are to be sent in 

 to the Bureau of Forestry on or before 

 December 1, 1899. The decision as to 

 the merit of the manuscripts will rest 

 with William Houston, M. A , McMaster 

 College; Alexander Kirkwood, Crown 

 Lands Department, and Thomas South- 

 worth, Clerk of Forestry. 



A Montana Conflagration. 



A press dispatch from Anaconda, 

 Mont., stated that a forest fire broke 

 out in the mountains west of that place, 

 in the vicinity of Mount Haggin, a fort- 

 night ago. The fire originated near the 

 base of the mountains from the camp-fire 

 of some picnickers. It spread rapidly 

 through the forest on the sides of the 

 mountain, both east and west, doing 

 great injury to the property of a number 

 of woodsmen. The fire was said to be 

 visible 100 miles away. 



At midnight the sight was brilliant, 

 with the snow-capped peak of Mount 

 Haggin towering heavenward above the 

 mass of flames, which then covered sev- 

 eral thousand acres.- The mountain sides 

 are heavily wooded and there are no 

 prospects of rain. The fire must burn 

 Us way out, either t') perpetual snow or 

 to the timber line. 



The Signs of the Times. 



This will probably be the last season 

 of the Sawyer & Austin mill at La Crosse, 

 Wis. For some time there have been 

 rumors that this would be the case, the 

 company sawing all the logs it can and 

 selling the remainder and take the mill 

 down to Pine Bluff, Ark. The stump- 

 age in the new purchase is said to be 

 about 800,000,000. 



One more year and the great lumber 

 firm of Knapp, Stout & Co., of Menom- 

 onie, Wis., that has operated in that 

 section for forty years, will have cut the 

 last timber and the concern will take up 

 its residence in the South, where they 

 already have a large plant in operation. 

 Thus one by one the old lumber con- 

 cerns are winding up their affairs and 

 moving into the South or further West. 

 It was a source of great wealth, and 

 more fortunes have been made in 1 um- 

 bering than have been made out of any 

 one other product in the State. The 

 Lumberman's Review. 



