Forestry and Irrigatioa 



Vol. XII. 



MARCH, 1906. 



No. 3 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Write to The bill for national for- 



Your est reservations in the 



congressmen White Mountains of 



New Hampshire and the Southern 

 Appalachian Mountains, has been in- 

 troduced in the present Congress. The 

 Senate Committee on Agriculture and 

 Forest Reserves has reported favor- 

 ably upon the measure and the House 

 Committee on Agriculture is to 

 consider the bill at a hearing on April 

 11. Readers of Forestry and Irriga- 

 tion are earnestly urged to write their 

 representatives in Congress, or their 

 senators, and urge their support of 

 this measure. Say that you earnestly 

 desire that these forest reservations be 

 established, and ask them to see Speak- 

 er Cannon and urge upon him the 

 importance of securing a vote on this 

 measure at the earliest possible day. 

 The time for concerted action is at 

 hand. 



Wholesale 

 Lumber 

 Dealers Meet 



The Fourteenth Annual 

 Meeting of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, held in Washington 

 on March 7 and 8, was remarkable for 

 the keen interest shown in practical 

 forestry by the members of this pow- 

 erful organization. The session on 

 Thursday morning, March 8, was al- 

 most entirely given up to the discus- 

 sion of forestry as applied to the lum- 

 ber industry. The session began with 

 the report of the association's commit- 

 tee on forestry, which was presented 

 by its chairman, Mr. George F. Craig, 

 of Philadelphia. He was followed by 

 Mr. Gifford Pinchot, head of the U. 

 S. Forest Service, who spoke of the 

 government forest work and the desire 



of the Service to co-operate in every 

 way possible with the lumbermen of 

 the country. Mr. Alfred Gaskill, of 

 the Forest Service, then read an inter- 

 esting paper on "How Shall Forest 

 Lands Be Taxed ?" In the afternoon, 

 President Roosevelt received the dele- 

 gates to the convention in the East 

 Room. He shook hands with each of 

 the delegates and made the following 

 address : 



'T wish to state what a very real 

 pleasure it is to have the chance of 

 greeting this body here on this occa- 

 sion. I hope I need not say the very 

 deep interest I take in not only your 

 business itself but in the way in which 

 you are carrying it on. I want to con- 

 gratulate you with all my heart, and I 

 congratulate the country upon the way 

 in which the exceptionally intelligent 

 and energetic men who have been en- 

 gaged in lumbering have met and are 

 meeting the changed conditions of 

 their business ; they way in which they 

 are now seeking to put it upon a foot- 

 ing not of exploiting a given area of 

 forest and leaving nothing behind, but 

 of so handling the forest that in using 

 it it is yet left as an asset for their chil- 

 dren and children's children. 



"The great desire I have in connec- 

 tion with the government forest ser- 

 vice is that you lumbermen should 

 make the fullest use of that service, 

 and I think I need not say that it is 

 absolutely at your disposition, and that 

 the more you use it, the more you 

 work in conjunction with those en- 

 gaged in managing it, the better it will 

 be for the service, and I think for you. 

 I am pleased to learn that you are to 



