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present governor, who is much interested in the question, 

 half a million acres will have been acquired for such pur- 

 pose. In Michigan about 200,000 acres of land have 

 been set apart for forestry purposes. 



The legislature of Minnesota enacted the following law, 

 which was approved April 8, 1903: 



The Minnesota state forestry board is hereby authorized to 

 acquire by purchase for the state at not exceeding two dollars and 

 fifty cents (;?2.5o) per acre, and preferably at the sources of rivers, 

 any land in this state that is adapted for forestry, but not to 

 exceed in any one congressional township, one-eighth part of the 

 area of such township, and to take such steps as are necessary to 

 maintain forest thereon according to forestry principles. One- 

 quarter part of the net forest revenue from such lands shall always 

 be paid to the respective towns in which the lands are situated. 

 No money shall be paid by the state for any such land until the 

 attorney general shall certify that the deed thereof conveys a clear 

 title in the state. 



No appropriation was made to carry this law into effect, 

 and for the reason probably that 1 2 0,000 was appropri- 

 ated for the purchase of additional land in the original 

 limits of the Itasca state park. The state now has a 

 thousand acres of cut-over pine land in Cass county, 

 donated by the late ex-governor John S. Pillsbury, and 

 for which a preliminary working plan, after survey, was 

 made last summer. A bulletin on the same was issued 

 by the Forestry Board. Notice of expiration of redemp- 

 tion period has been served in respect of about a thousand 

 acres in Cook county, which the board also expects to 

 obtain for forestry purposes, under chapter 335 of the 

 laws of 1 90 1. If these are but crumbs, they foreshadow 

 better things. 



One of the results of forestry agitation in Minnesota 

 was the recent act of Congress for opening the Chippewa 

 reservation, creating a forest reserve of 200,000 acres, 

 and which secures to the Indian, for the first time in 

 his history, the true value of his timber. 



