NEWS AND NOTES 



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Washington Post and Richmond Times-Dis- 

 patch are promoting the movement. 



The Post-office Department aids the good 

 roads movement by insisting Rural Free 

 Delivery routes shall be kept in good con- 

 dition. 



President Taft, in a recent letter to the 

 Washington Post, shows himself to be an 

 earnest believer in the effort to supply the 

 Nation with adequate highways. 



Wise Conservation Legislation in Wisconsin 



At its last session, the legislature of Wis- 

 consin enacted a law containing the following 

 wise provision : 



"Whenever the state of Wisconsin shall 

 hereafter convey in any manner whatsoever 

 any of its lands, the conveyance thereof shall 

 be subject to the continued ownership by 

 the state of all minerals in said lands and all 

 mining rights therein, and shall also be sub- 

 ject to continued ownership by the state of 

 all water-power rights on such lands or 

 in any manner appurtenant thereto." (Chap- 

 ter 374, 1909, Section 207 m. In effect 

 June 12, 1909.) 



S. M. Higgins Supervisor of Michigan 

 Forest 



Mr. S. M. Higgins, for several years a 

 resident of Michigan, has been appointed 

 supervisor of the two National Forests in 

 Michigan, with headquarters at Au Sable. 

 He will take charge immediately. 



This appointment marks the beginning of 

 Federal forest administration in Michigan. 

 The waste areas Forester Pinchot hopes to 

 develop into profitable stands of pine trees. 

 Mr. Higgins will select and map lands which 

 will restock naturally, lands adapted to plant- 

 ing white and Norway pine, and lands too 

 barren for present operations. In addition, 

 he will plan a system of fire protection. 



State Forester of Connecticut 



Mr. Samuel N. Spring replaces Mr. Austin 

 F. Hawes as state forester of Connecticut. 

 Mr. Hawes is now state forester of Vermont. 

 Mr. Spring graduated from the Yale Forest 

 School in 1903. After graduation he or- 

 ganized the department of forestry in the 

 University of Maine, where he served two 

 years as professor of forestry. In 1905 he 

 entered the Government service and re- 

 mained until 1908. At the time of his leav- 

 ing the Forest Service he was the head of 

 ihe Section of Tree Planting. He left the 

 Forest Service to enter private work as a 

 consulting forester. His service in Connecti- 

 cut begins October i, 1909. 



Black Butte Mountain Fir Forest 



On page 607 of this issue will be found a 

 cut (photograph furnished by Mr. W. B. 

 Dennis, of Black Butte, Oreg.) of a fir 

 forest growing near the top of Black Butte 

 Mountain, Oregon. 



Black Butte Mountain is one of the buttes 

 in a spur of the Callapooia range, which 

 range connects the Cascade and Coast ranges. 

 Black Butte is geographically in Section 16, 

 Tp. 23 S., R. 3W., W. M., in the southern 

 part of Lane County. 



Black Butte Mountain contains a large de- 

 posit of cinnabar ore, which is being mined 

 and reduced to metal in a reduction plant 

 on the property. The mountain is densely 

 covered with fir of the character shown in 

 the photograph. 



Oregon Caves National Monument 



On July 12 President Taft, by proclama 

 tion, set aside an area upon unsurveyed land 

 within the Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon, 

 containing certain natural caves of unusual 

 scientific interest and importance, as a na- 

 tional monument. This was done under the 

 act of June 8, 1906, entitled "An Act for the 

 Preservation of American Antiquities." 



Club Women for Conservation 



Mrs. P. S. Peterson, chairman of the for- 

 estry committee of the General Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, and delegate to the 

 Seattle Conservation Congress, visited Los 

 Angeles, Cal., and spoke on conservation. 

 Among other things, she said : 



"Clubwomen are taking up the movement. 

 We wish to have it become a part of public 

 sentiment that shall command the attention 

 of men, women, and children a subject that 

 can be spoken of from the public platform or 

 discussed at the family fireside." 



Mrs. Peterson also spoke of the waste of 

 coal, and of the forests, the need of con- 

 servation for business and agriculture, and 

 of the strong work Mr. Pinchot is doing to 

 save our resources. 



Year-book of the New Hampshire Society 



The Society for the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests has issued its seventh 

 annual report or year-book. This is a hand- 

 some, illustrated volume of seventy-eight 

 pages, containing the Appalachian (Weeks) 

 bill, the new forest law in New Hampshire, 

 the amended law for highway trees, several 

 interesting papers, and the reports of the 

 forester, secretary, and treasurer. The secre- 

 tary, Mr. Allen Hollis, may be addressed at 

 Concord, N. H. 



