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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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Summer Meet- 

 ing of the 

 American 

 Forestry- 

 Association. 



A special summer meet- 

 ing of the American For- 

 estry Association will be 

 held at Colorado Springs, 

 Col., July 10, 11 and 12. 

 There will also be a 

 meeting of the National Irrigation Asso- 

 ciation at the same place, and immediately 

 following. In the June Forester will be 

 printed in full the arrangements for these 



meetings. 



Dead, Down, 



use of a system of espionage that would 

 have prevented the cutting of green 

 timber, the cost, in connection with the 

 other necessary expenses would have used 

 all of the small percentage that is sup- 

 posed to be set aside for the Indian fund. 

 As it is, the only man who makes anything 

 out of the deal is the logger. The In- 

 dians get little or nothing, the manufac- 

 turers who get the logs pay more for the 

 logging than the logs are worth, if only 

 J* the dead and down timber is cut, and if 



obliged to pay the $13 per thousand asked 

 The Minneapolis Jon rua? by the government for all the green tim 



ber, they are also behind on that part of 

 the deal. 



" The men most interested in the per- 

 petuation of the law are half breeds and 

 the ' squaw men ' who have done most of 

 the logging. They are so interested that 

 they not only cut 'dead and down' tim- 

 ber, but everything else they can get away 

 with. For the most part they are irre- 

 sponsible, and the green timber cut nets 

 them as much for lo2ffin as the dead 

 stuff, while the men for whom they log 

 April 26th, makes the following comment have to pay the price. Further than this. 

 on the matter: " Wherever the responsi- it is pretty well established that these men 

 bility lies the fact remains that the lumber spend a considerable portion of their time 

 concerns that get the timber will have to when not employed in logging, in seeing 

 pay the additional price demanded by the to it that there will be plenty of ' dead ami 

 government for all green timber that went down' timber to log: when next 



and Green Tim- recently published the re- 

 ber Cutting. suits of a private investi- 



gation into the logging 

 operations on some of the Indian reserva- 

 tions during the past winter under the 

 " dead and down " timber law. The 

 Journal found, " that a considerable 

 amount of green timber had been cut 

 along with the dead and down timber that 

 was supposed to be cut under the con- 

 tracts." 



The Mississippi Valley L?i}nberman of 



with the dead. So long as the farcical 

 ' dead and down' timber bill remains on 

 the statute books, and lumbermen can be 

 found who are willing to contract for tim- 

 ber under its provisions, the government 

 can expect the law to be violated. In the 

 first place, however good the intentions of 

 the loggers may be, it is impossible to get 

 out the dead and down timber and not cut 

 more or less green timber with it, and in 

 the second place, the law itself offers 

 temptations that few if any loggers can be 

 found to resist. 



" Few lumbermen wdio have experience 

 in the work care to repeat it. The aim of 

 the law is to give employment to the In- 

 dians and to give them a revenue from the 

 sale of the timber. The well-known dis- 

 taste of the red man for work defeats the 

 first provision. Had the government made 



fered on the market. As a certain lum- 

 berman who has had experience under the 

 law expressed it, ' No man can carry out 

 a contract to cut " dead and down " timher 

 and expect to go to heaven.' As long as 

 this law is in force, the government is 

 offering a premium to dishonesty and 

 benefiting nobody. In the ilea Is of the 

 past winter, most of the lumbermen who 

 contracted for timber were ignorant of the 

 fact that green timher was being cut. 

 When they received notice that they were 

 expected 'to pay the exorbitant price de- 

 manded, there was no recourse. They 

 must pay the price or give up the log . 

 They had so much invested that there \^i- 

 no choice in the matter. They are losers, 

 as a result, and when the government has 

 more l dead and down' timber to sell, 

 they will not W anion-' the bidders." 



