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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



whereas the American mills must em- 

 ploy American vessels only. 



To the uninitiated, this would look all 

 right, but it is not, for the following 

 reasons : 



First, that an American steamer 

 costs just about double as much as a 

 vessel built, say, in Great Britain. Then 

 our laws and regulations compel us to 

 carry more men than any foreign ship 

 carries. More wages to our men, high- 

 er cost of feeding them, greater ton- 

 nage measurement and many other 

 charges that the American vessel must 

 pay, which are too numerous to ex- 

 plain in this article. 



Suffice to say, that if the American 



ship has to pay tolls of $1.20, then for 

 deck load say 40 cents per M extra, it 

 will add about $1.60 per M of lumber. 



The foreign ship will carry lumber 

 from British Columbia to, say, New 

 York, for $3.85 less than the American 

 vessel, thereby putting our American 

 mills completely out of the running. All 

 this comes immediately after having put 

 lumber on the free list. 



It is a stunning blow to the lumber 

 industry of this coast. The lumbermen 

 demand relief of Congress by allowing 

 them to use the same vessels as their 

 competitors in British Columbia, there- 

 by putting them on an equality. 



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PACIFIC COAST CONDITIONS 



1 ERIC AN FORESTRY has ar- All these articles will be designed to 



ranged for a series of articles on give to the general public a knowledge 



western lumber conditions and of western forest conditions which the 



problems, with the idea of pre- public does not now possess, and they 



senting the practical inside viewpoint of 

 some of the big men in the business 

 there. These articles will include a 

 commercial sketch of the merchantable 



will be found of decided value and much 

 interest. 



As the American Forestry Association 

 and its magazine AMERICAN FORESTRY, 



western species of lumber, the little in its now rapid development, finds it 



known ones also, and will tell of the necessary to keep in close touch with 



many uses of this lumber, some new the forestry and lumbering conditions 



ones having been recently discovered. in the chief forested regions, plans are 



There will also be articles on the world's bein g rapidly perfected to have its in- 



markets and the trend of trade, the pos- formation from these various regions, 



sibilities of extending the trade, on the of the most rehable and accurate char " 



f\ r*4~(i't~ 



transportation from mill to market, the The padfic coagt ion ^ ^ 



various features of production and the k and mogt valuable b forests in the 



problems connected with it, the closer country and Mn g. 7. Allen, of Port- 



utilization and the uses of special prod- landj Qre., the forester of the Western 



ucts and by-products, and an analysis of Forestry and Conservation Association. 



the situation of private timber holders has agreed to assist AMERICAN FOR- 



covering investment, fire protection, in- ESTRY in presenting the articles in refer- 



terest and taxes. ence to conditions there. 



Ranchers Fight Fires. 



Ranchers within and adjacent to the Sierra National Forest, California, have formed 

 a cooperative association for the prevention of forest fires. They need to use fire in clearing 

 land for farming, and will do it on a community basis, with all members present to prevent 

 the fires' spread. 



