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" On Monday Geo. the nation with material for homes, their 

 Pennsylvania White, of Elimport, industrial establishments and millions of 

 and William Wei- dollars of exports. Without its forest 

 ;hans, of this city (W'illiamsport, Pa.), revenues and the wages from the work- 

 ,vere arrested by Constable Mitchell and men engaged in forest industries, the 

 yesterday morning given a hearing before country would be crippled. In the hun- 

 \lderman Kellenbach on a charge of start- dreds of half-deserted villages, whose idle 

 ng a forest fire on land owned by David dismantled lumber mills attest a once pros- 

 stuempfle, of this city, with intent to de- perous community, whose furnaces have 

 itroy trees. The case against the men been cold for many a day, the whirr of 

 vas worked up by Constable Mitchell, the saws forgotten, can be found the ex- 

 /vho has been made special detective by planation. Forests that were intended as 

 he County Commissioners, and the prose- a source of supply for all coming genera- 

 tion was carried on by District Attorney tions, were stripped, ravished, to satisfy 

 iaupp. the greed of one generation and the all- 



The story of the affair is simple. In devouring forest fire came to complete the 



fVpril the men were working for Stuempfle devilish work. Lands that would have 



fe Dunbar, sawing logs and the ring of a furnished timber supplies for ever are only 



nail kept coming off so that they decided areas of burnt stumps, worse than waste. 



:o make a fire and weld it on. The wind Farms have succeeded in some places, but 



:arried blazing leaves about and set fire to there are millions of acres that will never 



he trees and about nine acres of worthless be profitably farmed. In his unthinking 



imber was burned before it was extin- greed the lumberman accomplished his 



ruished. The two men worked with own ruin. Before he was aware extinction 



)thers to extinguish the fire and it was of timber stared him in the face. He 



shown that they did not start it maliciously moved his machinery to some distant place 



>r intentionally. and began life anew, amid new friends 



The District Attorney insisted that they and unravished timber. Each week we 



)e held for court so that a jury might de- read in the press of some timber firm in 



:ide their guilt or innocence of criminal the middle Norhtwest that has cut out of 



legligence. They were held in $100 bail timber, and is seeking new fields for work. 



: or court."- -Williamsport Gazette, July It is their own indictment. There is only 



nth. one solution of the problem for American 



^ timber owners and that is that lands more 



valuable for timber growing than agricul- 



" Were our lands tural purposes should be so managed as to 



Ene'nT 1 held as permanent pro- secure a constant future supply."- -F. H. 



ducers of lumber as Lamb, " The Manufacture of timber on the 



:hey would prove themselves to be, such Pacific Coast of North America" in Timber 



nvestments would be held at a lower rate an d Wood-working Machinery, London, 

 if interest. The manufacturing plants 

 >vould be built in a more permanent man- 



ler, there would be a greater incentive for "It is true, now 



.he upbuilding of large, well arranged and but Forests 668 ^ a ^ we nave Arbor 



kVell managed industries. Those in the Day, and the chil- 



Dusiness would have a greater incentive dren turn out here and there and plant 



:or the bestowing of their life work upon a few trees, and the sentiment which is 



ts details, there would be an esprit dc there inspired may bear fruit in time to 



:orps among lumbermen that does not come, yet the planting of an occasional 



low exist, and which is not shared by his tree along the highway or in the towns and 



icighbors. Why should American him- cities is of no particular consequence. A 



Dermen be held as robbers and ravagers few trees in Jerusalem or Antioch were 



Dy a certain class of people? They supply as nothing compared to the destruction of 



