Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1918 



1703 



Our Coal Bill Affected by Timber Shortage 



How Canada's Coal Prices are being 

 added to by Pennsylvannia\s Scarcity 

 of Mine Timber is interestingly told in 

 the following from the Philadelphia 

 North American. 



"One of the most serious problems 

 confronting the anthracite operators 

 is the ditTiculty in securing sufficient 

 timber to properly ensure the safety 

 of the miners. This is especially true 

 of the heavier timber needed for 

 gangway purposes, and at the present 

 time operations have been temporar- 

 ily halted on account of the inability 

 of timber contractors to meet the 

 ever increasing demands upon them. 



Virtually all of the mountains in the 

 anthracite fields have been stripped 

 of their virgin timber and in many 

 places the young growth has been cut 

 to meet the demand. Owners of the 

 few remaining virgin tracts are de- 

 manding fabulous prices. The cost 

 of mine timber has been steadily 

 climbing for the last several months, 

 and while the coal companies have 

 indicated their willingness to pay the 

 J) rices demanded, they have been 

 unable to get the needed supply. 

 Shipments of heavy gangway, slope 

 and shaft timber from the far south 

 have been greatly curtailed since the 

 freight congestion early in the current 

 year. In many instances timber 

 shipped from Georgia and consigned 

 to the mines has been commandeered 

 by the government for use in the 

 shipyards. 



Contractors throughout central 

 Pennsylvania are cutting every avail- 

 able stick of timber. Roadsides once 

 sheltered by giant oaks have been 

 stripped of that protection. Whole 

 rows of big trees that once gave 

 beauty to the farm lands have l)cen 

 cut down and sent to the mines. 

 Small tracts held by estates have 

 been disposed of at unprecedented 

 prices." 



HONOR FOR COL. GRAVES 



Col. Henry Graves, Forester of the 

 United States Forest Service, has 

 been elected Honorary Member of 

 the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 

 recognition of his eminent services to 

 forestry. 



The Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society was founded in 1854 and 

 shares with the Royal English Arbori- 

 cultural Society the leadership in 

 forestry matters not only in Great 

 Britain but to a large extent through- 

 out the British Empire. Its list of 

 1,500 active members includes the 

 names of a large number of pro- 

 fessional foresters in the British 

 Colonies and possessions, all over the 

 world, but the Society has less than 

 thirty honorary members, of whom 

 about half are distinguished foreign 

 scientists and administrators, mainly 

 European. 



The Society, in addition to the 

 publication of its transactions and the 

 consideration of papers at its regular 

 meetings, makes an annual excursion 

 for field study. It also offers annual 

 prizes and medals for essays on 

 practical subjects and for inventions 

 connected with appliances used in 

 forestry. Such awards have been 

 granted continuously since 1855. 



This distinction isshared by Colonel 

 Graves with onlv one other citizen 

 of the United States, Dr. C. S. 

 Sargent, who was elected an Honor- 

 arv Member in 1889. 



"WOODMAN SPARE THAT TREE" 



According to "The Little Journal," 

 ])ublished by Arthur D. Little, Limit- 

 ed. Cambridge, Mass., only about one 

 third of a long leaf pine tree is used as 

 merchandise, two-thirds being de- 

 st roved or discarded as waste. 



