LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Chapel Hill, N". C, May 1, 1912. 

 To His Excellency, Hon. W. W. Kitchin, 



Governor of North Carolina. 



Sir : — A great gain lias been made during the past year in forestry 

 work in North Carolina by the organization of the JSTorth Carolina 

 Forestry Association. As the North Carolina Geological and Economic 

 Survey was instrumental in organizing this Association and as the Asso- 

 ciation is working in very close cooperation with the Survey, the proceed- 

 ings of the Association are in part the record of forestry work of the 

 Survey. For this reason I recommend that the proceedings of the annual 

 convention of the North Carolina Forestry Association, which was held 

 at Raleigh, February 21, 1912, be published as Economic Paper No. 25 

 of the publications of the North Carolina Geological and Economic 

 Survey. I am including in this same Economic Paper a report on the 

 Forest Fires in North Carolina During 1911, and also some Suggested 

 Forestry Legislation for North Carolina. 



Yours respectfully, 



Joseph Hyde Pratt, 



State Geologist. 



