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lack of capable and active subordinate 

 officials. It is difficult to find men famil- 

 iar with the forest conditions and the uses 

 of the woods of the Philippines, who are 

 entirely satisfactory in other respects. It 

 is believed that the best means of securing 

 a competent and efficient force is to employ 

 new men and train them on the ground 

 as speedily as possible. In this work 

 Messrs. Bruce and Hamilton will be able 

 to render valuable assistance. 



The Bureau was recently reorganized so 

 as to consist of an officer in charge, an in- 

 spector, a botanist, a chief clerk, and sten- 

 ographer, a translator, a law clerk, a record 

 clerk, 10 assistant foresters, and 30 rang- 

 ers. It is the intention of the officer in 

 charge to work up a forest service on the 

 lines of the work carried on in the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, through its 

 Division of Forestry. The wholesale de- 

 struction of timber will be stopped, and 

 the cutting will proceed under regulations 

 looking to the future yields of the forests. 

 The fire question will also receive close 

 attention. 



Mr. Bruce and Mr. Hamilton have 

 sailed from San Francisco for Manila on 

 the transport Indiana. 



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Two Lumber "It is time that in this 

 Journals on country, at least in loca- 



Forest Methods, tions where the timber is 

 to be had, the lumber busi- 

 ness should cease to be a matter of this year 

 and next, and it should cease to be a short 

 term of destructive enterprise and be a per- 

 manent investment such as would attract 

 trust funds or any capital which desired 

 a long term safe investment ; inasmuch as 

 it is as safe as any that can be imagined 

 safer if possible than government bonds, 

 and will pay a better interest." T/ie 

 American Lumberman. 



" Two things impress themselves upon 

 the mind in this connection. One is that 

 both private holders of timber lands and 

 public officials should become interested 

 at once in practical forestry methods and 

 aims as exemplified in the work of the 

 national government through its division 

 of forestry. The other is that owners of 



timber lands should realize more fully 

 than ever before the inevitable future en- 

 hancement in the value of their holdings. 

 Such a realization will do much to pre- 

 vent waste and the rapid manufacture of 

 trees into lumber when the price of the 

 latter is depressed. This, with care and 

 proper laws to protect the timber against 

 depredation and fire, will do much to pro- 

 long the integrity of our forest resources." 

 Lumber Trade Journal. 



Report of N. Y. The New York Forest, 

 Forest, Fish and Fish and Game Corn- 

 Game Commis- mission in its recent an- 

 sion. nual report to the Legis- 



lature, made the follow- 

 ing recommendations : 



" That the Constitution be so amended 

 as to provide for the practice of conserv- 

 ative forestry on State lands (a vast estate 

 of 1,384,128 acres, of a value variously 

 estimated at from $5,000,000 to $10,000,- 

 000, of which this Commision has sole 

 care and control, and which it must pro- 

 tect from damage by trespass, fire and 

 poaching), and the sale of dead, dying or 

 mature timber under proper safeguards. 



" That the excellent work done by the 

 United States Government in connection 

 with our foresters, as shown by the report 

 of the United States Forestry Department, 

 herewith submitted, be continued and an 

 appropriation of $3,500, as requested, be 

 made for that purpose. 



" That a force of rangers be appointed 

 for the prevention of forest fires, timber 

 stealing and poaching on State land. 



" That all town fire wardens be allowed 

 a moiety of the fine in criminal actions, 

 after payment of expenses, in cases where 

 they can secure evidence that will lead to 

 conviction for setting forest fires. 



" That the Board be allowed to set 

 aside certain limited portions of the State 

 lands as game refuges, and absolutely to 

 prohibit the killing of wild animals therein. 



" That the anti-hounding law be per- 

 manently extended, and that no dogs of a 

 breed which will pursue deer be allowed 

 in the woods at any time. 



" That the killing of does be prohibited 

 at all times." 



