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time. The railroads annually require an immense 
number of ties, and no kind of timber is better fitted 
for that use than the Larch. 
Those who regard only immediate profit, and look 
solely to the most expeditious way of realizing money, 
from an undertaking, will not be likely to plant 
timber. But those who are willing to wait, or who 
desire to make a profitable investment for their 
children, cannot engage in any enterprise with greater 
certainty of ultimate advantage than forest planting. 
The immense consumption of timber, annually 
increasing with our increasing population — the 
multiplied uses for which the more valuable kinds 
are indispensable—the wide plains towards the Rocky 
Mountains rapidly filling with emigrants, who must 
long be wholly or in part dependent on remote 
districts for their supplies, render it absolutely certain 
that the price of timber must in a few years be greatly 
enhanced. 
