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sawed lumber of usual thickness, or sawed as thin as more 

 economical use will allow, will, in all reasonable expecta- 

 tion, when added to the careful conservation of the stand- 

 ing and growing timber, supply the market with three times 

 as great an amount of surface measures of lumber that will 

 fill the same requirements as would come from the same 

 timber if handled by past methods. 



The Government reserves may be conservatively handled 

 and successfully reforested if sufficiently large areas or 

 grants are laid off that will take so long a term of years 

 to cut it over that, by proper regulations as to the methods 

 of cutting and as to the trees to be left and by the complete 

 protection and cultivation of all the new growth, an equal 

 amount of lumber in quantity and a much larger number of 

 trees will, in the course of fifty or seventy-five years, be 

 ready for a new cutting, beginning at the same original point 

 and following the same order as that followed in the first 

 cutting. This will apply to the greater part of the Govern- 

 ment reserves if they can be handled in the above manner 

 to produce the best results and serve the public interests in 

 the long run. But to accomplish this it will be necessary 

 to overcome or neutralize the public prejudice against large 

 operators or so-called monopolies. 



Expensive milling plants with the roads, railroads, plan- 

 ing mills, box factories and other equipments cannot be 

 made a reasonable or satisfactory enterprise to enter upon 

 without a long continued supply of timber to warrant the 

 large expenditure. Numerous small cheaper mills and 

 equipments and limited capital to operate with can not suc- 

 cessfully and economically handle the timber and supply the 

 demands for lumber. To secure a perpetual supply it is ab- 

 solutely essential that the first cutting of the timber should 

 occupy so long a time in going over it that the new growth 

 would equal the original stand and should be made to supply 

 as much or more on the second cutting. 



