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THE FORESTER. 



February, 



Wood advising that steps be taken immedi- 

 ately to protect Cuban forests belonging to 

 the public domain. He urges that he be 

 empowered to appoint six inspectors, at a 

 salary of $2000 each, with instructions to 

 locate public property and to consult with 

 the officers of the rural guard in the vari- 

 ous provinces as to the best methods of 

 preserving the trees, which are now being 

 used at the pleasure of the first person who 

 desires to cut them, the result being, in 

 many parts of the island, a wholesale de- 

 struction of young trees. 



Transvaal for 125,000 gunstocks. The 

 gunstocks are to be shipped to an arms 

 firm in New York, where they will be 

 fitted to rifles and then shipped to South 

 Africa. 



A Question of Foresight. 



Owing to the lack of transportation the 

 forests of interior Cuba have been left 

 almost untouched, but the syndicates that 

 are buying up forest lands show so much 

 determination to cut and market all the 

 valuable timber in sight that the question 

 of forest preservation has already come up. 

 Cuba now has the opportunity presented 

 to her of putting a big padlock upon the 

 barn door and locking it securely before 

 the horse is stolen. Troy (N. Y.) Times. 



Damages For Forest Fires. 



A jury in the county court at May's 

 Landing, N. J., on Januarv 1310 rendered 

 a verdict against the Reading Railroad 

 Company for $10,500 damages for losses 

 caused by forest fires. The suit was 

 brought by the heirs of the Estella estate, 

 who asked $40,000 for damage done their 

 property by forest fires, claiming that 

 sparks from the locomotives of the defend- 

 ant company started the fires. 



An Irrigation Expert. 



The Vice-President for Wyoming of 

 the American Forestry Association is thus 

 spoken of in the Saturday Evening Post 

 (Philadelphia) in a recent issue: 



" Among the distinguished officials who 

 will represent this country at the Paris Ex- 

 position next May is Professor Mead, the 

 vState Engineer of Wyoming, and an irri- 

 gation expert of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. Mr. Mead has already made his 

 mark in the Western States. To his ex- 

 ertions is largely due the success of the 

 many irrigation congresses which have 

 been held in his part of the country, and 

 the better knowledge of fluvial conditions 

 and water rights now possessed by the 

 reading public. He was probably the first 

 to make maps that were truly hydro- 

 graphic rather than cartographic in char- 

 acter. By charting the water-supply, 

 water-flow, and water-shed he proved that 

 the problem of irrigation upon a large 

 scale was far simpler than had been be- 

 lieved by preceding experts." 



The Post accompanies the article with 

 an excellent likeness of Professor Mead, 

 and tells an interesting story of one of his 

 experiences. 



A Ban on Our Timber. 



Canadian discrimination against the 

 United States is expected to manifest itself 

 in the shape of a law forbidding the export 

 of Spruce timber for the manufacture of 

 pulp. 



Gunstocks for Oom Paul. 



Walnut and Cherry lumber has had a 

 boom in the press report that an Indiana 

 firm had received a rush order from the 



The Growth of Forestry Sentiment. 



" There is no doubt but that public sen- 

 timent in favor of forest protection and 

 renewal is growing rapidly," says the 

 Southern Lumberman, " and some time 

 in the not very distant future it will make 

 itself felt in legislation. Nearly all of 

 the lumber trade papers have from time to 

 time published favorable articles on the 

 subject, but trade papers do not have, nor 

 seek to have, any political influence. One 

 of the principal sources of wealth of the 

 State of Tennessee is its forests, and yet 

 one might search all the Acts of its Legis- 

 lature for a century past and find no men- 

 tion of trees except such as are used as 



