



FOREST NOTES 



The Central West Virginia Fire Pro- 

 tective Association, with Merritt Wil- 

 son, President, George B. Thompson, 

 Vice President, George W. Wilson, 

 Secretary-Treasurer, as well as Lloyd 

 Hansford of Parsons, H. W. Armstrong 

 and B. L. Roberts of the Cherry River 

 Boom and Lumber Company and 

 Charles U. Luke and E. P. Shaffer, rep- 

 resenting the West Virginia Pulp & 

 Paper Company, attending, met at 

 Elkins, West Virginia, on October 17. 

 W. Hoyt Weber, Forester and Field 

 Manager for the Association, and J. A. 

 Viquesney, State Forest, Game and 

 Fish Warden, submitted reports show- 

 ing work completed and men employed. 

 The State has constructed 13 lookout 

 stations and 4 patrol routes, and the 

 Government has supplied watchmen 

 and patrolmen, under the provisions of 

 the Weeks Law, for these lookout sta- 

 tions and patrol routes, numbering six- 

 teen in all. The Association has already 

 employed 8 patrolmen and authorized 

 the employment of two more, making a 

 total of ten patrolmen employed by the 

 Association, or twenty-six salaried men 

 in all. It is just one year since the 

 contract was signed whereby Govern- 

 ment aid was secured, under the Weeks 

 Law, to protect the forests from fire, 

 and under the triple alliance and co- 

 operation of Government, State and 

 private owners, it has been demon- 

 strated that millions of dollars can be 

 saved to the timber owners of the State. 

 The timberland owners of the forest 

 area of the State are greatly pleased 

 that ways and means have been devised 



to save the forests from fire, and all are 

 anxious to join this organization and 

 have their property protected under 

 this arrangement. 



A warning against tree repair fakirs 

 has been issued by the Massachusetts 

 State Forestry Association to its mem- 

 bers. It calls attention to the necessity 

 of exercising great care in having honest 

 and competent tree surgeons and points 

 out the damage that may easily be 

 done by men who are not properly 

 trained for the work and the exorbitant 

 prices charged by those who take ad- 

 vantage of the ignorance of the tree 

 owner. 



Here is an exact reproduction of an 

 application received by District Forester 

 Smith Riley of Denver for a position as 

 Forest Ranger. It is worth reading : 



-, Wyo. 

 Sept th 281914 



"Dear Sir, I hear that you Want 

 Forast-Rangers. and I think I Wood 

 Souit you & the Job Wood Souit me, I 

 have Ben in the West hear 9 years and 

 am ust to hard-ships and like to Ride, 

 all tho I am not no Bronko Broker. 

 What I mean, is "if they Buck to hard 

 they can throw me off" 'and I am ail-so 

 a good timber man as I have Ben in 

 the timber all of my life., I have a 

 comon School Edukation, "I am a 

 married man With no Children Just 

 me & Wife. My Wife has a 320 acare 

 Home-Stead in - - Co & has lived 



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