1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



397 



cussion of means to preserve the timber 

 on these mountains, particularly on the 

 higher slopes that have been recently 

 purchased by lumber companies, was 

 the key-note of the meeting. Ex-Gov- 

 ernor Rollins, president of the society, 

 presided, and Mr. Joseph T. Walker 

 acted as secretary. Addresses were 

 made by Senator William E. Chandler, 

 Mr. Winston Churchill, the author, and 

 a number of others. 



Mr. Philip W. Ayers,the society's for- 

 ester, presented a statement of his inves- 

 tigations for the Society in the mountain 

 regions of the state. He gave a history 

 of the work of the Diamond Match Com- 

 pan}' in New Hampshire, and of the sev- 

 eral pulp companies, including the Inter- 

 national Paper Company, J. H. Henry's 

 Sons, the Berlin Mills Lumber Com- 

 pany, and others. He spoke of having 

 met different granges, farmers' insti- 

 stutes, teachers' meetings, and women's 

 clubs throughout the state. x'Vccording 

 to Mr. Ayers, there is a strong senti- 

 ment throughout the .state in favor of 

 the establishment of a state nursery 

 for the distribution of trees and seeds 

 adapted to forest growth in New Hamp- 

 shire. Another subject which the pub- 

 lic is coming to regard with favor is the 

 exemption from taxation, for a term of 

 fifteen years, of land properly planted 

 to forest. 



Mr. Aj'ers presented numerous letters 

 favoring a reservation by the federal 

 government in the White Mountains. 

 They were from Col. John Hay, Secre- 

 tary of State at Washington, D. C. ; 

 Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D., of 

 Boston ; Senator J. H. Gallinger, of 

 New Hampshire; Mr. Filibert Roth, of 

 the General Eand Office, and several 

 others. Letters were also presented 

 from Dr. B. E. Fernow, Director of the 

 New York State College of Forestry at 

 Cornell University, and from the Bureau 

 of Forestry at Washington. 



Mr. Winston Churchill, the author, 

 was the next speaker. He had con- 

 ferred with President Roosevelt on the 

 subject, and expressed the President's 

 hearty approval of the plans to save the 

 White Mountains from desecration. 



Mr. Orton B. Brown, of the Berlin 

 Mills Lumber Company, was listened 



to with particular attention, as his 

 company has recently purchased the 

 remaining virgin spruce forest on the 

 northern slope of Presidential Range of 

 mountains. He said the timber was 

 needed by his company for cutting this 

 winter and succeeding winters, but for 

 the coming season they would not cut 

 the points of greatest scenic value un- 

 less compelled to do so by business exi- 

 gencies. He stated that his company 

 would sell the land again at a fair price, 

 being naturally interested in the scenic 

 beauty of the state and anxious to pre- 

 serve it. They are willing to contrib- 

 ute toward it, but his company could 

 not afford itself to maintain so valuable 

 a piece of land as a public park. 



Mr. George H. Moses, Secretary of 

 the New Hampshire State Forestry 

 Commission, presented a motion that 

 the Society heartily cooperate with the 

 committee appointed at Intervale, of 

 which Dr. Edward Everett Hale is 

 chairman, to present the subject before 

 Congress. This motion was unani- 

 mously adopted. The committee re- 

 ferred to is one appointed at a meeting 

 held at Intervale, N. H., early in Sep- 

 tember for the purpose of bringing to 

 the attention of Congress the necessity 

 of establishing a forest reservation in 

 the White Mountains. The committee 

 consists of Dr. Edward Everett Hale, 

 chairman; ex-Governor Frank W. Rol- 

 lins; Rev. Dr. Daniel Merriman; Hon. 

 A. E. PilLsbury, Boston; Mr. Henry 

 James, 2nd, Cambridge; Prof. J. Raynor 

 Edmands, Cambridge; Mr. J. vStickney, 

 and Mr. H. P. Nichols. 



A .strong plea for concentration of 

 effort and cooperation of all forces was 

 made by Col. Henry O. Kent, president 

 of the New Hampshire State Forestry 

 Commission, especially in regard to 

 measures to be brought before the New 

 Hampshire Legislature next winter for 

 the establishment of a nursery or some 

 source of supply of seedling trees for 

 distribution throughout the state. 



Tlie active support of the Woman's 

 Clubs of New Hampshire was pledged 

 b}' Mrs. Sarah G. Blodgett, president 

 of the New Hampshire State Federation 

 of Women's Clubs. Several represent- 

 ative club women, including Mrs. Ellen 



