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A plan is under consideration for making lion roadside fruit trees, which in one year 



use of water to develop 3,200 horse power produced $2,000,000 worth of fruit. The 



for distribution to mines in the neighbor- favorite trees for roadside planting are the 



hood of Cripple Creek, Col., the source of Cherry, Plum, Apple, Chestnut and Wal- 



the water supply being Beaver Canyon. nut. 



A steel rock dam will be built, having a 



storage capacity of 150,000,000 cubic feet. The Douglas Fir was named after David 



Douglas, a botanist who explored Califor- 



The kingdom of Saxony, from its 430,- nia in the first quarter of this century. It 



000 acres of forest, mostly Spruce and is distributed over a wide area from the 



mostly on poor mountain land, derives an coast to the summit of the Rockv Moun- 



annual net income of $1,900,000, being tains. On the coast it attains the greatest 



$4.50 per acre. This is being done with- proportions, specimens being sometimes 



out exhausting the forests ; on the contrary, found rising to a height of 300 feet with a 



they are worth double to-day what they circumference of 30 to 50 feet at the base, 



were forty years ago. The ordinary average is, however, about 



150 feet clear of limbs, with diameter of 



The former method of transporting logs 5 or 6 feet at the base. The straight, clear 



from the forests in the northern part of stem, bare of branches almost to the top, 



Pennsylvania to the saw- mills in Williams- makes the tree peculiarly valuable from a 



port by floating them down the river has lumbering point of view. 



been abandoned by one enterprising firm 



there on account of the uncertainty of the A prominent English lumber manufac- 



water supply in recent years. Hereafter turer, Thomas J. Marone, aftering touring 



the logs will be moved by rail. this country and Canada in quest of sup- 



plies, says : 



In no part of the world are the forests "The people of this country fail to re- 

 more appreciated, probably, than in Cen- alize what the people of European coun- 

 tral Africa, in the region inhabited by the tries have known to their sorrow for years 

 tribe of pigmies discovered by Henry M. that the willful destruction of forests 

 Stanley. These people, none of whom brings want in the end. 

 exceed four feet in height, never leave the " Reforestization is now being practiced 

 forest under any circumstances. They are in all these older countries, but for fifty 

 perfectly formed and fairly intelligent, but years to come Europe will have to look to 

 are timid and wary of strangers. America for the greater portion of her 



supply of lumber. Will America, with 



In the reconstruction of the Ontario the destruction I see on every hand, be 



Cabinet consequent upon the retirement able to supply this demand even if we are 



of Hon. A. S. Hardy, Hon. J. M. Gib- willing to pay a good price?" 



son, for four years in charge of the Crown - 



Lands Department, has become Attorney- The far-reaching effects of forest de- 

 General. The new Commissioner of struction become more apparent day by 

 Crown Lands is Hon. E. J. Davis, lately day, sometimes in ways seldom thought of 

 Provincial Secretary, who is the head of by the general public. An instance of 

 one of the leading tanning firms of this is the perturbation caused among bee- 

 Canada, keepers by the destruction of the Ka^s- 



wood forest, their anxiety for the future 



A practice in vogue in France, Germany, being shown in the following comment in 



Belgium and other European countries, is an exchange : 



to plant fruit trees along the public roads. " The problem is indeed a serious one ; 



The local governments plant the trees and the States of New York, Pennsylvania, 



cultivate them as a source of revenue. In Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, that 



Belgium there are three-quarters of a mil- have produced such large quantities of 



