1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



211 



Michigan and northern Wisconsin, 

 where reports indicate 200 square 

 miles are affected. Newspaper reports 

 from Escanaba and Gladstone, Mich., 

 state that the towns of Saunders, 

 Ouinnesec, Shaffer, Ralps, Salvoie, 

 Cornell, Woodlawn, and Talbot have 

 been completely destroyed, and several 

 other towns seriously threatened. The 

 exact loss is hard to estimate, on ac- 

 count of the meager details, but the 

 loss in timber alone will be consider- 

 able, while the damage to farms, homes, 

 live stock, and real estate will be very 

 heavy. 



At the meeting of the 

 Lumberin- National Wholesale 



Lumber Dealers Asso- 

 ciation, held at Chicago in May, 1905, 

 a resolution was adopted to secure 

 funds for the endowment of a chair 

 of applied forestry and practical lum- 

 bering at the Yale Forest School. A 

 committee was appointed to have 

 charge of raising the fund. 



At the annual meeting of the asso- 

 ciation, held recently in St. Louis, Mr. 

 F. E. Weyerhaeuser reported for the 

 committee the progress of its work. 

 Some difficulty was encountered in 

 getting the work under way, owing 

 to the large territory to be covered. 

 Accordingly it was January of the 

 present year before the committee 

 undertook the active work of solicit- 

 ing subscriptions. Since that time, 

 however, the work has gone steadily 

 forward and $54, 601 . 20 has been raised 

 through 158 subscriptions, from the 

 following sources : 



Arizona District 5 $ 80,00 



Lumber trade journals l 100,00 



Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association l 500,00 



Pennsylvania State 1 1,000-00 



New York State 1 !l,000.60 



Michigan State 3 1,250 00 



Sugar Pine Manufacturers 2 1,250 00 



Southern Cypress Manufactur- 

 ers' Association 19 2il"500 



National Wholesale Lumber 



Dealers' Association 43 4,350.00 



Northern Pine Manufacturers' 



Association 18 19,200.00 



Yellow Pine Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation 48 20,646-20 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso 



ciation of the United States.. 16 3,050.00 



158 154,601.20 



The members of the committee hav- 

 ing this matter in charge are Messrs. 

 William Carson, J. T. Barber, J. B. 

 White, C. I. Mallard, N.W. McLeod, 

 E. G. Griggs, R. A. Long, R. H. 

 Downman, I. C. Enochs, J. L. Kaul. 

 and F. E. Weyerhaeuser. Mr. George 

 K. Smith is secretarv of the committee. 



New 



Hampshire 



Meeting 



The annual meeting of 

 the Society for the Pro- 

 tection of New Hamp- 

 shire Forests was held at Concord, N. 

 H., on May 9. The meeting was an 

 unusually interesting one. Mr. Asa 

 F. Williams, forester of the Berlin 

 Mills Company, addressed the meeting 

 on the subject, "The Influence of Log- 

 ging Upon Natural Reforestation." In 

 addition there were papers by Prof. 

 F. William Rane, of the Department 

 of Horticulture and Forestry, of the 

 State Agricultural College at Durham ; 

 Mr. Edwin A Start, secretary of the 

 Massachusetts Forestry Association ; 

 Hon. Henry F. Hollis, of Concord 

 (who has recently planted ten acres 

 of white pine), and others. Dr. A. D. 

 Hopkins, forest entomologist of the 

 Department of Agriculture, spoke on 

 "Insects Injurious to the Forests of 

 New England," illustrating his talk 

 with lantern slides. 



A legacy of $5,000, left by Mrs. 

 Julia B. Thayer, of Keene, N. H., was 

 announced ; also that Dartmouth Col- 

 lege has placed its large tract of 26,- 

 000 acres under forest management in 

 co-operation with the society, with the 

 Forester, Mr. Philip W. Ayres, in 

 charge. There were full reports upon 

 the proposed forest reservations in 

 the southern Appalachian and White 

 Mountain regions, and the society ex- 

 pressed its hearty appreciation for the 

 efforts that have been made looking- 

 to their establishment by the Senators 

 from New Hampshire, by Dr. Edward 

 Everett Hale, and by Governor R. B. 

 Glenn, of North Carolina. Governor 

 Glenn w r as elected a vice president of 

 the society, Dr. Hale already being an 

 honorary life member. The society 

 has selected a list of correspondents in 

 the several states of the Union to 



