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eighteen has grown to thirty-nine, and we have hopes 

 of sixteen more in the spring. 



Now I only speak about this, my friends, because it 

 is a kindred question. It is one of the things that 

 grows out of the agitation of forestry. A man or a 

 woman who preserves a tree in a practical way will 

 preserve the things that that tree shelters and produces 

 and that are useful to man. Again, I wish to bid you 

 Godspeed, and I hope you will carry with you to every 

 part of the United States the enthusiasm which you will 

 generate here the enthusiasm which you bring here 

 and which you will convey to one another and that 

 you will be a mighty band of missionaries all the way 

 from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. 



Address by Hon. W. A. Reeder 



Member of Congress from Kansas 



T REGARD it as a privilege to be permitted to speak 

 to so intelligent an audience from all sections of 

 this great country of ours, interested in so vital a work 

 as the preservation of our forests. I had the good 

 fortune to be born in one of the best valleys of Penn- 

 sylvania, the Cumberland Valley, but I had the better 

 fortune to be removed, very early in my history, to 

 the Solomon Valley, in the semi-arid regions of western 

 Kansas, and for considerably over a third of a century 

 I have lived in that section, and it has probably changed 

 my characteristics considerably from what they would 

 have been had I remained in the land of my nativity ; 

 also my interest in certain matters, particularly the 

 matters of irrigation and the preservation of our 

 forests. 



What a dense population we will be able to find 



