1901 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



what an extent cheap wood has entered as 

 a. factor into our prosperity, into the open- 

 ing and settlement of the West, and into 

 our rapid industrial development, no one 

 can doubt that they are the beginnings of 

 what may be great things. Little by little 

 the best of the slowly grown forests of 

 northern New England, of Pennsylvania, 

 of Michigan, Wisconsin, and a good part of 

 Minnesota, have been cut off, and now the 

 lumbermen are yearly working their way 

 deeper into the woods of the Appalachians 

 of the southern timber belt, and of the far 

 West. Often the land which has been 



cleared has been turned into farms, fre- 

 quently it has been left to be burned by 

 fires, only in a few places and but recently 

 has it been held and managed for a second 

 crop. Future generations will probably 

 have cause to look back to the movement, of 

 which the setting aside of the forest re- 

 serves has been perhaps the most conspicu- 

 ous event, as one of the important chapters 

 in the industrial history of the country. 

 Though these have thus far been only a 

 beginning, the site on which the twen- 

 tieth century can erect a splendid edifice 

 has been secured. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 Dr. Schenck's Business Problems of American Forestry. 



Biltmore, N. C, Dec. 20, 1900. 

 Editor of The Forester : 



Dear Sir : A recent issue of The For- 

 ester in reviewing my booklet, " Some 

 Business Problems of American Forestry," 

 questions the reliability of the data form- 

 ing the basis of my financial demonstra- 

 tions. 



Since 1S97 I nave been in the habit of 

 collecting financial data published in lum- 

 ber papers and obtained by correspondence 

 with leading lumbermen, with the view of 

 using them in my annual lectures on forest 

 finance. The seventeen problems given 

 in " Some Business Problems of American 

 Forestry " are taken from my collection. 

 The following list specifies the authority 

 on which the premises of each problem 

 relies. 



1. A Longleaf Pine Problem (Flori- 

 da) : Personal investigation made in south- 

 ern Pine belt for the Division of Forestry 

 and correspondence with a Florida lumber- 

 man. 



2. Another Longleaf Pine Problem 

 (Florida) : The same source. 



3. A Red Fir problem (Oregon) : 

 After clippings from Northwestern Ltim- 

 berman. 



4. A Yellow Poplar Problem (North 

 Carolina) : My own timber tallies and my 



essay entitled " Our Yellow Poplar," copy 

 of which I send you under separate cover. 



5. Another Yellow Poplar Problem 

 (North Carolina) : My own tallies made 

 for property in my charge. 



6. An Adirondack Problem : After 

 Pinchot, Graves, and clippings from lum- 

 ber periodicals, mixed with personal im- 

 pressions. 



7. A Spruce Problem : From the 

 same as No. 6. 



8. Another Spruce Problem : From 

 the same as No. 6. 



9. A White Pine Problem (Min- 

 nesota) : Pinchot and Fernow's publica- 

 tions on White Pine interwoven with data 

 received from a correspondent at Duluth. 



10. A Shortleaf Pine Problem (Ar- 

 kansas) : After my own investigations 

 into the growth of. Shortleaf Pine and foot- 

 ing on data furnished by a correspondent 

 in Arkansas. 



11. Influence of Forest Fires on Rate 

 of Interest : My own experience based 

 upon five and a-half years constant contact 

 with nature in the region referred to. 



12. Stumpage Prices of the Future: 

 After Gannet and Fernow. 



13. Forest Taxation in the United 

 States : Data from a correspondent in 

 Massachusetts. 



