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first time it has ever been done in this 

 way on this continent. We passed a 

 law in Oregon which is the State law, 

 in which we simply said that every 

 owner of timber land must patrol his 

 land during the season of fire danger, 

 and if he did not do it, the State 

 would do it for him and spend an 

 amount not to exceed five cents per 

 acre in any one year, and that this 

 additional expense would be put on 

 the tax roll for the man to pay, and if 

 he did not pay the State would take 

 the land away from him. In that way 

 we worked this problem out. It took 

 money for the State to take over a 

 man's land and patrol it, and we had 

 to have money to do it. We did not 

 ask for an appropriation large enough 

 to do that, but we simply allowed the 

 State to provide this, and did not say 

 exactly how the State was to meet the 

 expense of this work, and the State 

 immediately contracted with the ex- 

 isting patrol association to patrol this 

 land. That is, the Patrol Association 

 has to hold the sack, as it were, and 

 has to pay for it that year, and then 

 it puts in its bill to the State in the 

 fall, and the next spring the State 

 puts that man's land on the tax roll 

 for that sum, with the penalty clause, 

 for collection. We have to have 

 money to do that, and we may have 

 lo borrow this money from the bank 

 in order to do it, but the owner has to 

 pay for it, and while it comes ^ year 

 late sometimes, still it comes, and 

 then the State pays under its contract. 

 Now, that law is very popular; 

 there is very little objections to it, 

 because it is a safeguard. It says that 

 a man must patrol his lands — ab- 

 solutely must — and if he does not, the 

 State will do it for him, and it says 

 that the land shall be patrolled ade- 

 quately. The law says the patrol 

 shall be adequate for the country to 

 be patrolled. 



How Slash is Handled 

 Nobody can ever complain of any- 

 thing that this association does, be- 

 cause the association would be punish- 

 ing itself if it asked anything un- 

 reasonable. We have in mind trying 

 in Washington this year something 

 new in the slash burning section. We 

 have considered a great deal out there 



what is required for slash burning. 

 We tried it by making it compulsory 

 and some years this was a failure. Our 

 system now is to allow that to be 

 within the discretion of the State. 

 We put in the law that the owner 

 must remove any dangerous debris 

 covering forest lands, — that any 

 dangerous debris covering forest lands 

 is a public nuisance, and the owner of 

 it has got to abate that nuisance and 

 if he does not do it the State can come 

 in and the cost of the abatement is a 

 lien against the property. So this 

 and other sections in that bill I think, 

 is going to be the correct way of 

 carrying out what we ard intending 

 to carry out. 



Our troubles are pretty well smooth- 

 ed out, and I think it bears witness 

 when I say that we have 13,000,000 

 acres patrolled by the association out 

 in the west, and you can do it here if 

 you get the cooperation of the State, 

 the Government and the timber 

 owners working together for the com- 

 mon good, and I do not believe that 

 you can work this matter out in any 

 other way. ( 



TO GIVE 2,000,000 TREES 



After planting seedlings on the 

 State forests, the Pennsylvania State 

 Forester will have 2,000,000 trees left 

 for distribution for private reforesta- 

 tion. More than half this number is 

 white pine. 



EXPERIMENTAL MILL 



The Forest Products Laboratories 

 of Canada, Montreal, are drawing 

 plans for the erection of an experi- 

 mental pulp mill. Researches are to 

 be carried on in the making of sulphite 

 and sulphate pulp, and the mill is 

 expected to be of considerable benefit 

 to the industry. A government ap- 

 propriation has already been made for 

 the purpose. C. B. Thorne, of the 

 Riordon Pulp and Paper Company, 

 and H. Helin, of the Wayagamack 

 Pulp and Paper Company, are assist- 

 ing the laboratory in -planning the 

 mill and the companies they represent 

 are giving the services of draftsmen 

 and engineers. 



