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home supplies. In Butte City, the great Anaconda mine alone consumed 

 last year over 1,000,000 cubic feet of mining and building timber; and the 

 consumption of firewood for smelting, etc., in this one camp, was estimated 

 at a round 300,000 cords per annum. While to the mine superintendent 

 other questions of management may seem more important at present, the 

 question of timbering with regard to economy in the use of the material 

 may soon become momentous, as the general lumber market is bound to 

 advance in price with increased demand and decreased supply, for the 

 reproduction of which nothing but nature's slow processes are relied 

 upon." 



PLEASURE GROUNDS. 



It is easily within the memory of those living that pleasure grounds were 

 provided by the large cities of the world for the recreation of the people. 

 Until recent times the common people were looked upon as of too little 

 importance, or as having too little respite from their daily toil, for any 

 public provision to be made for their healthful recreation and pleasure. 

 The large tracts of forests and parks in Europe, whether owned by the 

 state or by private citizens, were kept for pleasure and hunting grounds 

 for use only of the nobility and gentry the privileged few. Within recent 

 times many of these crown lands have been utilized as parks for the people, 

 whose growing importance and needs command respect and consideration, 

 even under monarchial government. The recent European parks were, as 

 a rule, old private parks, or crown lands, now made free and adapted to 

 public use. And for this purpose they have been improved and so treated 

 as to bring out all the possibilities of landscape beauty. Warren Higley. 



TURTLE MOUNTAIN RESERVE. 



Under the leadership of Hon. W. W. Barrett, superintendent ef irrigation 

 and forestry, North Dakota, a forestry reserve will eventually be located 

 at Turtle Mountain, the watershed heights of the far north. Nothing is 

 more essential for the interests of agriculture in all that region so famous 

 for its wheat production. We must have this important link put into the 

 great chain of reserves ere long to be stretched from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. 



