186 OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



cigar and set the underbrush alight. You cannot 

 force others to grow timber for your benefit unless 

 you are willing to offer your cooperation and assist- 

 ance to the extent of making it economically prac- 

 ticable for them to do so. You want lumber 

 without having to pay the cost of bringing it across 

 the country. Well then, you must put yourself in 

 the place of the grower and permit him to make a 

 safe and reasonable profit. 



Perhaps you own a small wood-lot on your farm 

 or your country place and you cannot now sell its 

 product because there is no local sawmill, and the 

 lumber yard nearby, accustomed to buy Pacific 

 Coast timber from regular wholesalers, is unwilling 

 to cater to your "whim" and help you out. Do you 

 therefore clear the land for firewood and then 

 neglect it, or are you a booster for the town forest 

 movement and the private wood-lot idea, with the 

 knowledge that, if others are confronted with your 

 problem, the sawmill and the market are bound to 

 come? 



A few years ago you seldom read in your ordi- 

 nary daily papers anything about wood shortage or 

 forest preservation, yet today practically every 

 newspaper in the United States declares in favor 

 of the movement for the perpetuation of our 

 forests. They are printing articles telling of the 



