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works, which are not included in an 

 investigation covering only manufac- 

 tured commodities. 



The wood-using industries require 45 

 kinds of wood, of which 20 grow in 

 Minnesota and all but three are native 

 to the United States. 



The widening and repairing of the 

 roads in the Mesa Verde National Park 

 is what is most needed to make that 

 reservation accessible to tourists, ac- 

 cording to the annual report of the 

 superintendent. This park is in south- 

 western Colorado and has an area of 

 about seventy-six square miles. 



The Northern Forest Protective As- 

 sociation of Michigan has just com- 

 pleted the posting of nearly one thou- 

 sand direction signs upon the outlying 

 roads and trails of the Upper Peninsula. 

 These signs were put up solely as a 

 kindness to woods travelers, and to 

 properly direct them to the location 

 being sought or to a place where pro- 

 tection and lodging could be found. 



This is the first effort with any 

 breadth of scope to properly designate 

 the roads and camps of the Peninsula, 

 and if it meets with the approval of 

 the general public it will be continued 

 until it is almost impossible for one not 

 familiar with the woods to become lost. 



Secretary Lane, of the Interior De- During the season of 1913 travel to 



partment, has asked the President to the Mount Rainier National Park in- 



withdraw certain lands for the pro- creased 52 per cent as compared with 



posed Denver Mountain Park, Colo- 1912, according to the annual report of 



rado, pending consideration by Congress the superintendent, recently made to 



of a bill for the creation of the park. Secretary Lane. Mount Rainier is one 



The area covered by this withdrawal is of the most accessible of the national 



over 34,000 acres. In a general way parks, being only 56 miles from Tacoma 



this land is of no substantial value for and 93 miles from Seattle, 



agricultural, mineral or other purposes, Near the center of the park is the 



though it is an ideal location for a park, summit of Mount Rainier, from which 



It is in a region of broken land, rocky radiates a system of glaciers ranking 



in character and having many canyons, in importance with any similar system 



but the City of Denver desires to in- or group of glaciers in the world, 



close the tract, if ceded to it for park There are more than a score of these 



purposes, police it, build drives to and glaciers from which flow headwaters of 



through it, and, generally speaking, four important rivers the Nisqually, 



make it one of the additional attractions the Puyallup, the White, and the Cow- 



of the city. litz. 



California led last year in timber sold from national forests, though Montana has the largest 

 number of sale transactions. 



_ The biological survey and the forest service have been co-operating in the extermination of ground 

 squirrels on national forests in California. The annual loss of range feed and grain crops from 

 ground squirrels is enormous. 



