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diminished during the next ten years skills, 437,000 acres more, for which 



that in 1903 only 52,000,000 feet were it paid $1,697,448, being an average 



cut. of from $2.56 to $4.26 per acre. Jan- 



The remaining original pine tim- uary i, 1903, it held 1,436,686 acres 



ber in Minnesota will be cut within of "forest preserve." There remain 



the next fifteen years. There is some 1,200,000 acres of forest land in the 



new growth coming on, and, while Adirondacks, which it is expected the 



pine will always be cut in Minnesota, state will acquire for $2,000,000. 

 the great logging industry which now The Forestry Commission of Penn- 



employs 15,000 men every winter sylvania has purchased 700,000 acres 



will suffer a great decline. of forest land at an average price of 



The population of the United States $2,75 per acre, and is continuing the 



increases 18 per cent every ten years, work. The purchase of land for for- 



and the population of Minnesota in- estry in both these states is properly 



creases more rapidly. The demand regarded as an investment, and not 



for forest products will increase. The as an expenditure. 

 Commissioner of Statistics estimates The legislature of Minnesota, of 



that there are in this state 12,000,000 1903, authorized the Minnesota State 



acres of arable land not yet under Forestry Board to purchase land with- 



cultivation. Cheap lumber will be an in the state, adapted for forestry, at 



important factor in developing this not exceeding $2.50 per acre, and pre- 



land. 



In 1897 the State of New York 

 owned about 1,000,000 acres of for- 

 est in the Adirondacks, since which 

 time it has purchased, through its 



ferably at the source of rivers, and 

 to maintain forest thereon according 

 to forestry principles, but appropri- 

 ated no money for the purpose. It 

 would be wise policy for the present 



Forest Commission, mostly in the legislature to make a suitable appro- 

 Adirondacks, but partly in the Cat- priation to commence this work. 



BEST USE OF WASHINGTON'S STATE 



SCHOOL LANDS 



BY 



FRANK H. LAMB 



"HE man who squanders his own 

 money suffers for his acts he 

 is rated a fool. 



The manager who allows the assets 

 of a corporation to become dissipated 

 is soon discharged from the service of 

 the company. He is a business failure. 



The trustee of the legacy of a widow 

 and minors who does not properly hus- 

 band the properties entrusted to his 

 care incurs the censure of the court 

 and the everlasting anathemas of the 

 wife and children. 



The men who are not true to 



great trust imposed upon them for a 

 specific purpose, wrong and injure not 

 only the grantor and grantee of the 

 trust, but if it be a public trust, injures 

 the public, not for the present only but 

 for all time. 



The people of the United States 

 through its representatives Congress 

 granted to the people of Washing- 

 ton for all time for the support of the 

 schools of the state certain tracts of 

 the public domain. At the time of that 

 grant the State of Washington con- 

 tained less than 350,000 inhabitants. 



