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pany, manufacturing cotton cloth at ica, though we have given so little at- 



Manchester, N. H., has said that in tention to it. 



1896 a single flood cost that corpora- It appears that the time for action 

 tion $100,000. There are in the east- [\as arrived for making a beginning, 

 ern mountain region several million e ' bills for forest reservations m the 

 , ,. ,, ? , ., White Mountains and the Southern 

 people directly dependent upon the A lachian Mountains, having been 

 steady continuance of the forest sup- before Congress in prev ious sessions, 

 phes. Many lumbering towns and have been i ntroduced i n the present 

 smaller cities have collapsed from the session. They have met no serious 

 exhaustion of the forest. Even the opposition, except that most serious of 

 larger cities, like Buffalo, have suf- all opposition inertia. Let every 

 fered when the hardwood market shift- friend of the forest come to the front 

 ed from Buffalo to Memphis. Com- at this time. I appeal especially to the 

 pare the ephemeral character of our friends and farmer sons and daugh- 

 mountain towns with the thrift and ters of New England who have gone 

 contentment of the people in the Black to nearly every western state, and to 

 Forest region in Germany, where all the many who have visited the White 

 sorts of small wares are manufactured Mountains from all of the states, 

 with no fear of an exhausted supply. Each is urged to write at once to his 

 The Black Forest is managed with a representatives in Congress, both mem- 

 view to permanent returns. This bers of the House and of the .Senate, 

 steadies the life of the whole people, asking that these bills may speedily 

 This principle is equally true in Amer- pass. 



AN ECONOMIC FACTOR IN FOREST 



PRESERVATION* 



BY 

 CARYL D. HASKINS 



Engineer, General Electric Company. 



""J" 1 HERE is no one fundamental of goods to foreign nations than are 

 industrial economics more widely brought in from foreign nations, so 

 recognized than that very simple one long will that nation continue to in- 

 relating to the maintenance and exten- crease in strength and prosperity in re- 



sion of foreign trade. * at ! on to th . ers - ^ H th ; s 1S obvious. 



-. It is less obvious what relation can ob- 



Foreign trade built Carthage, main- tain between the ma i nte nance and in- 

 tamed the revenues of Egypt, and gave crease of f ore i gn trade and the pres- 

 Greece first place for many centuries ervation of f orest areas. To the aver- 

 among the Mediterraneon nations. age mind> cons idering the problem in 



None can fail to appreciate the ad- a casual way, there might seem to be 



vantages of a creditor nation. So long but one possible connection between 



as a nation can compete successfully in the two matters the very simple and 



foreign markets, gaining a little from obvious one that, having once cut away 



year to year, in relation to other na- all of our forest tracts, we can no long- 



tions, in exports, sending out more er be an exporter of lumber. 



*Read at Annual Meeting of the American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C, 

 January 16 and 17. 



