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expense. How many teams a truck 

 will replace depends on the hauling 

 conditions, length of haul and many 

 other factors; but take this one in- 

 stance of a motor truck and trailer, 

 hauling on a two-mile plank road, 

 handling 30,000 to 40,000 feet a day 



at a cost of approximately $18, in-, 

 eluding driver's wages, depreciation, 

 interest on investment, taxes, gaso- 

 line, tires, oil, etc. What would it 

 cost with horses? 



The motor truck is unquestionably 

 the new and big factor in logging. 



With a Forester in Armenia 



"The people out here grow Lom- 

 bardy poplar as a timber tree. Little 

 groves of it or now and then fair-sized 

 patches is the nearest they come to 

 forests. Most of it is grown in long 

 rows along irrigation ditches. They 

 trim it off along the trunk so that it 

 develops into a very tall, thin tree. 

 They use these poles as rafters, etc., 

 in their mud houses. The really great 

 need here is fuel wood. The people 

 use manure cakes in their fires almost 

 entirely, as only the wealthy can 

 afford wood to burn. Twenty dollars 

 (about) was the price I heard quoted 

 for one cord. Except along the few 

 river beds where willows, wild olive, 

 and as far as I have seen, nothing else 

 grow, this is a treeless country. In 

 fact, the location of the villages is 

 noticed by the presence of trees, which 

 are on irrigated soil. My belief is that 

 this is due to lack of enough water or 

 to poor distribution of rainfall. 



"Now, to get down to what can be 

 tried out here. I have some Western 

 yellow pine seed, and some Douglas 

 fir. But it strikes me that some of the 

 real desert trees of America, such as 

 the mesquite, the Palo Verde, and 

 especially the eucalyptus, might do 

 well here. Also I am anxious to try 

 out some of the dry site conifers such 

 as the jack pine, all four of the nut 

 pines, and any other extreme drought 

 resisting species. It also seems to me 

 that the ailanthus should do well on 

 some sites here and make a welcome 

 shade tree. Then the thought comes 

 to me that there may be a number of 

 Australian species which might ht 

 and perhaps the Aleppo Pine, Pinus 

 halpensis Mill, might be worth trying 

 out. And are there not some very 

 hardy species that grow on the dry 



veldt in Africa and on the plains of 

 the Argentine? As to the irrigated 

 tracts it seems to me that there are 

 better species than the Lombardy 

 poplar. How about the American 

 Cottonwood? Could you send me a 

 few cuttings or some seed to experi- 

 ment with? 



"I am writing this, and in fact we 

 are all acting in our work, as if it was 

 a sure thing that nothing in the way of 

 another invasion of this district by 

 the Turks and Kurds was going to 

 take place. In reality we are always 

 living on a powder mine here. There 

 are some fifteen thousand refugees in 

 Urumia and all around us thousands 

 more. Three thousand fresh ones 

 came in a little south of here about 

 two weeks ago. Many of them were 

 really almost naked and the poverty, 

 famine, want and horror of it all make 

 your heart ache. I am glad I came 

 out to do what I could. This winter 

 is going to be the worst that ever 

 struck this region. Just at present it 

 is summer and so warm that the poor 

 people do not need clothes much. 

 Also they manage to scrape up enough 

 to keep alive, but when the cold 

 starts in there will be the most 

 terrible want that you can think of. 

 I assure you that when you have a 

 small mob of 50 Gilu, Kurdish and 

 Syrian men, women and little child- 

 ren pressing around you, filthy, dirty, 

 covered with sores, haggard and gaunt 

 and all of them crying out for any- 

 thing at all to eat, it makes you feel 

 pretty hard toward the plenty of the 

 United States and the way they are 

 not making use of it. Why, one 

 night's expenditures on wine, women 

 and song along Broadway would save 



