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should have a value; when our timber is utilized as 

 our cattle and hogs are utilized, and every part saved, 

 the other things required to perpetuate our western 

 Washington forest will follow as good investments. 



To the perfecting and teaching of these methods, 

 therefore, we should turn the attention of our Gov- 

 ernment, our chemists, and those who desire the per- 

 petuation of our forests. By such methods our lands 

 would be placed in the best condition for future timber 

 crops, and those crops could be fir, spruce, cedar, black 

 walnut, ash, or maple, and any of these would be 

 ready to harvest before our present timber is exhausted. 



Tardy forest reserves make possible wise provisions 

 for the disposition and perpetuation of the small rem- 

 nant of our timber still in the hands of the Govern- 

 ment, but laws for the use and perpetuation of this 

 timber must vary with location. No rule of selection 

 can be applied to western Washington or western 

 Oregon; no rule of clean cutting and reseeding can 

 be applied to eastern Washington or eastern Oregon. 

 Western Washington and western Oregon rainwall and 

 water supply are excessive, and need not be considered ; 

 eastern Washington and eastern Oregon need first 

 consideration be given to these questions; a general 

 law, to apply to the cutting and perpetuating of the 

 timber on all Government reserves, would prove as 

 wrong as have our laws in their application to these 

 areas. 



To these pathless jungles, where no man could live 

 except upon provisions packed upon his back, where 

 to make a clearing of an acre costs labor worth $200 

 and destroys timber worth $50 more; where the sun 

 sends but pencils of light, and the fallen timber, of 

 centuries back, is as sound as if always submerged; 

 where the surface is made up of gulches, canyons, and 



