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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



stand of spruce I know of in the whole 

 region) to supply a new mill of 100,000 

 feet capacity a day, located in Wood- 

 stock, N. H. 



Almost every Forest Service man 

 has heard of J. E. Henry & Sons' plant 

 in Lincoln, N. H. Mr. Henry, Sr., 

 told me they used between forty and 

 fifty millions of feet per year of spruce. 



I could continue north, citing simi- 

 lar instances of large concerns who are 

 laying waste the beautiful forest. 

 The only hope is that a bill will soon 

 be passed creating the National For- 

 ests ; and I hope 1 will have the pleas- 

 ure of working on the one located in 

 the White Mountains. To be back 

 among those old peaks is my desire 

 and before long at that. Then I will 

 be content, and not till then. If there 

 is anything I can do to be of direct 

 assistance to you in furthering the 

 cause do not hesitate to call on me. 



With a rousing cheer for the efforts 

 and aims of the association, I am 

 very truly yours, 



NELSON ~L. LEGRAXD. 



Out of the Mr. A. W. Frederick, 



Woods of Northfork, California. 



Shortsighted- . ., 



ness writes these encouraging 



.words : 



"It seems to me that your views of 

 forestry find the true highways and 

 byways of right government in a re- 

 public. You certainly see the way out 

 of the private woods of shortsighted- 

 ness into a beautiful vista of liberal 

 public forestry. Your statement of 

 the difference between paternalism and 

 popular government can never be gain- 

 said. 



"I will inclose list of names of my 

 teacher friends and will personally or 

 by letter address them and call for 

 volunteers." 



No Appro- An electrical engineer, 



priation Will w h ose profession makes 



Do More , . ,, 



Good him appreciate the need 



of the work, writes : 



"I have been all along a thorough 



believer in the work of the American 



Forestry Association, but I desire to 



become a member at this time because 



it is striving to secure a Federal For- 

 est Reserve in the White Mountains 

 of New Hampshire and in the South- 

 ren Appalachians. I do not believe 

 that any appropriation of equal 

 amount which passes Congress at this 

 session will accomplish more of per- 

 manent good to the community than 

 will this, if it is passed." 



The 



Situation 

 In Ohio 



The following letter 

 from W. A. Russell, of 

 Beaver, Ohio, to the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture has been referred 

 to this office by the Forest Service as 

 valuable information : 



"I received the circular on The 

 Waning Hardwood Supply, by Will- 

 iam L. Hall, Assistant Forester. The 

 circular is all too true, as the forests 

 in this part of the country are disap- 

 pearing very rapidly. It is alarming, 

 in the last year, the number of tracts 

 of timber that have been cut away, 

 more than 60 per cent, of what was 

 standing at January ist, 1907. Every 

 station along the railway is glutted 

 with ties made of all kinds of hard 

 and soft woods, a great many of them 

 made of poles that are not really more 

 than one-half the dimensions of a first- 

 class tie. 



"Most of such ties come from tim- 

 ber land that was cut over years ago. 

 Such cutting of the second growth is 

 setting the future timber supply far- 

 ther away. There is a great deal of 

 rough, stony, hilly land in southern 

 Ohio that would be better for the 

 country if it had never been cleared. 

 The lumbermen are trying to buy 

 every piece of timber left, and if it 

 were not for a few level-headed men, 

 who look at things differently, they 

 would exhaust this country of the still 

 remaining timber in the next twelve 

 months. At the present rate of cut- 

 ting, we will in three years from now 

 have none, or very little, left. 



"The forest is dying off so much 

 faster than it did twenty years ago. 

 It is all more or less dying and going 

 back, causing a great many people to 

 sell their timber. The country here 

 has had, and still has, some of the 



