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on such a large scale that the larger companies have found 
pressing need for a systematization of methods and accounting. 
A technically trained man working from a basis of thorough 
understanding of present methods and conditions is preéminently 
the man for this work. It takes years of hard preparatory work 
under actual logging conditions to fit a man for such a position, 
but the future promises great things for the man who will 
persevere until he is a recognized authority on scientific logging. 
And it is the forester working from the inside, with a full 
knowledge of actual conditions who can best say to what extent 
forestry may be practiced by the logger. Briefly, these are the 
lines upon which I am working and by which I hope to show 
that there is a field for the technical man in private work.” 
He is a member of the Methodist church and in politics is a 
Progressive Republican. He is a member of the Concatenated 
Order of Hoo-Hoo. 
David T. Mason 
United States Forest Service, Missoula, Mont. 
David Townsend Mason was born March 11, 1883, in Newark, N. J., 
the son of William B. R. Mason, postmaster of Bound Brook, N. J., 
a newspaper publisher, manager of a water company and president of 
the Building Loan Association, and Rachel Manning (Townsend) Mason. 
He is a descendant on his father’s side of Captain John Mason, who with 
two brothers settled in Massachusetts in 1634. One of these brothers 
operated the first sawmill in New England, on the Piscataquis River in 
Maine. His mother’s ancestors came to New Jersey in colonial times, 
some of them having land of royal grant, part of which is still in the 
family. He has two brothers: Fred R. Mason, B.S. Rutgers ’o5 and 
M.F. Yale ’11, and H. F. R. Mason. 
He was prepared at the Plainfield (N. J.) High School and received 
the degree of B.S. from Rutgers College in 1905 and in 1908 the degree 
of M.S. At college he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Psi. 
He was married October 4, 1911, in Missoula, Mont., to Miss Georgia 
Evelyn Polleys of Missoula, Mont., daughter of Edward H. Polleys and 
Edna (Woodcock) Polleys. 
Since graduating from the Yale Forest: School, Mason has 
been employed in the United States Forest Service, where he 
has held the following positions: forest assistant, Montezuma 
National Forest, Colorado, and Washington, D. C., July 1, 1907, 
