i 3 2 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION March 



forest in Siberia, 900 miles from Vlad- Hills National Forest, South Dakota, 



ivostok, to be delivered in Melbourne, This remarkable cave, which is located 



Australia, approximately 8,000 miles thirteen miles west and south of Cus- 



away, and nearly three times the dis- ter, the county seat of Custer County, 



tance from New York to San Fran- in a limestone formation, is believed 



c i sca by geologists to be an extinct geyser 



It is likely that no lumbering opera- channel. The national monument will 



tion of recent years more strongly il- embrace an area of 1,280 acres, 



lustrates the pinch in the timber sup- This cave, which was explored as 



ply in all parts of the world. In the i a t e as 1900, has been found to consist 



news of the concession, told in an o f a series of chambers connected by 



American lumber journal, is the sug- narrow passages with numerous gal- 



gestion of the difficulty that all coun- leries, the walls of which are encrusted 



tries may have to encounter in getting w jth a magnificent layer of calcite 



the wood which they need in the fu- crystal. The opening of the cave is 



ture. Every year timber cruisers are situated in Hell Canyon, the walls of 



going further and further afield and which are high and precipitous, 



cutting trees which in former times of The surface of the country in which 



abundance they passed because of the the cave is located consists of a high 



inaccessibility of the forest. rolling limestone plateau about 6,000 



In taking out the Siberian timber f ee t above sea level, 

 the Melbourne lumbermen will have 



to ship the entire year's cut in July ^ ^.^ Hampden Forestry 



August, September, and < Forestry \ssociation has been 



during the remainder of Association started . New y k 



5 no open water at not f()r propaganda purpoS e S) but as 



, f n( a business enterprise. It intends to 



What makes this unusual feature ot , , . . . ', 



buy and deal in forest properties and 



transporting bulky logs <S,ooo miles . , , 



. water rights on such properties; to 



quite feasible is that such unmanufac- , , ', 



, ( start a nursery and plant trees ; and to 



tured stock is admitted free, while > . , 



,, conduct any business, such as farm- 

 there is a heavy duty on all manuiac- . , J 



mg, that is necessarv m connection 



tured wood brought into Australia, the , . . J , . , 



with the administration of its forest 

 duty on lumber, for instance, being 



nearly five dollars a thousand board ^ r ?? e . 



, \I i\r iu If the taxation oroblem could only 



feet. At Melbourne a new mill is , . , , . J , 



L 7 r 4.^* be solved, forest development would 



being erected to manufacture these -. . c .*: , 



s . r, offer an attractive field for mvest- 



logfs into dressed stock, such as floor- , 



.;. , ments ; and it may do so anyway, 

 ing, ceiling, and other products, as 



well as into lumber. 



In this country it is customary to Not So Miss Mira Lloyd Dock, 

 have new mills conveniently near the Costly After of Fayetteville, Pa., 

 place of production, though, with the A11 member of the Pennsyl- 

 continually decreasing supply, the vania State Forestry Commission, 

 larger mills often find it profitable to said at the recent yearly meeting of 

 haul their timber by trams and rail- the American Civic Association : 

 roads many miles to their saws. "The cost of establishing a forest 

 The hope of the United States for a reserve and even of maintaining it for 

 steady supply of timber lies in the some time without expectation o-f rev- 

 application of forestry to all timber en ue is not only relatively but abso- 

 lands, private and public. lutely less than the loss from forest 



fires and from the devastating char- 

 Jewel Cave The President has just acter of floods originating from waste 

 National signed a proclamation lands. The work of restoring the 

 creating the Jewel Cave forest takes time, but not so much 

 National Monument within the Black time as is commonly supposed." 



