i'oS EDITORIAL ,_,, 



ous to leave the system of taxation in privilege of naming the editor of the 



such condition that trees which are department, and would 



already growing must be cut. to the paper in return. A gen. 



The i'/iicago Journal, in an editor- paper has the va.^t advantage that it 

 ial quoted in FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION circulal amongst many people who 

 for January, urged that all available are outside of the n nt; yet at 

 forest land everywhere should be the same time this arrangement will 

 taken in hand by the United States cost less than the mainten. 

 Government. While constitutional separate periodical. It would be de- 

 reasons may perhaps prevent the sirable to make this arrangement with 

 widest application of this policy, there a moderately low-priced paper, so that 

 is nothing to hinder State Govern- the society could get it.-, friend.-- to 

 mem- from establishing State for- promote the circulation of the paper, 

 ests, or from changing their tax laws. 



In the present critical condition of A correspondent and 



the country bounties for the plant- g^Siity subscriber of FORESTRY 

 ing of forests might not be out of AND I RRIGATIOX livi 



place. These, of course, should be in the State of Chihuahua, in Mexico^ 



on such terms that the young plant- W rites 

 ings will be properly cared for until ..,,,, 



they are well grown. The bounty rhere , 1S , much timber land in thl ^ 



from increased value, however, mav 5tate aml ! here are " rest nction- 



be ample inducement, if protection and to cutt ig down trees, so that the same 



technical advice are given bv the mistake is being made ot promiscu- 



State. ously cutting down forests that was 



Lands sold for taxes ought to be made in our own country some \ 

 bought up by the State, as in Wis- re^there were regulations 



consin, and planted to woods ; or ex- ;L matter. 

 changed for other lands to be plant- This 1S a reat ?*>' If tlu ' 



ed; or sold, and the proceeds used oi Mexico would see their opportunity 



to buy compact bodies of land for thev would regulate the cutting of 



forest planting. Here is a course their forests so that they would h 



that is open to every State. Constitu- for y ears to conie - the opportunity of 



tional limitation upon tax reductions supplying the markets of the t'nited 



will not apply here, because the State States: and most certainly would thi- 



forests will not be subject to taxa- be true if the States and the Mexi 



tion. Citizens should besiege their Federal Government would take the 



legislatures for this. forests in hand as public property: 



whereas, if lumber companies are al- 



The Western Worldhzs l"^ed to cut nthout restrict 'he 



ReformPress a forestry department timber crop will last but a few y, 



conducted by Mr. W. G. an(1 most of the profits will go j- 



M. Stone, president of the Colorado the hands of foreign invest 

 State Forestry Association. Here is Financial and lumber papers in thi- 



a good suggestion for State societies country constant!} 



devoted to various kinds of public ments in the w 'lilding rai 



improvement work. Instead of start- f l s;iw '""ills for thc p- 



ing a paper of its own. such a society velopjng the lumbering 



may often with advantage select a Mexi'- The financial string in 



suitable and favorably disposed paper the United State-, h 

 of general circulation, already in ex- 1 temporary a 



istence. and arrange for a special de- number of dea' nr- 



partment in it representing the move- chase of large tra timber lands 



ment for which the societv i work- by Americans in different part^ 



ing. The society might obtain the Mexi 



