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They can only be reached, and these grave errors 

 corrected, by making other methods to their pecuniary 

 interest; teach them, therefore, the value of their tim- 

 ber ; show them ways of turning their waste to profit ; 

 send to them pulp mills, chemical works and tanning- 

 extract plants ; help them to show the transcontinental 

 railroads the short-sighted policy they are pursuing; 

 build for them a double track road and give to them 

 lower freight rates and from that, now wasted, they 

 will furnish ties for the North, boxes for the Middle 

 West, cheaper lumber for your homes, perpetuate their 

 forests, operate their mills through the centuries, and 

 the song of the axe, the saw, and the hammer will have 

 no note of discord and continue in the land of the fir, 

 the spruce, and the cedar. 



