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SETH BULLOCK, 

 Supervisor of Black Hills Forest Reserve. 



* * * A practical administration of the forest reserves, one that 

 takes into consideration not only the preservation and propagation of 

 the timber, but the necessity of the mine as well, will not, in my 

 opinion, retard the development of mining, but on the contrary will 

 materially assist it. * * * It can be truly said that a veritable 

 forest has been used underground in the mines of the Black Hills 

 during the few years they have been in operation. 



CAPT. GEORGE P. AHERN, 



Chief Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 



* * * There is a vast natural forest wealth in the Philippines 

 waiting development. * * * This archipelago is one of the fertile 

 spots in the Orient. The market for our product is strong and close at 

 hand. Labor is not very difficult to procure, and ample protection is 

 secured to life and property. * * * The Pacific is indeed an 

 American ocean ; we have the choice islands in that great sea, and we 

 have the most fertile spots at the gates of China. 



AUBREY WHITE, 

 Comniissioner of Crown Lands, Province of Ontario, Canada. 



So far as the Province of Ontario is concerned, we derive our prin- 

 cipal revenues from the sales of pine timber, there being no state tax. 

 We do not pay one five-cent piece for state purposes. * * * Our 

 great .revenue comes from two sources: One, a grant by the Federal 

 Government, and the other, the proceeds of the sale of our timber. 

 This last year we derived from timber alone $2,800,000. When we 

 want to dispose of our timber we survey it into blocks, or " berths," as 

 we call them, and invite people to come and bid for them. * * * 

 We sold one square mile at our last sale and got $36,500 for it. So we 

 have a very valuable asset and are taking care of it — we are not giv- 

 ing it away. 



A. L. FELLOWS, 



Consulting Engineer, TT. S. Geological Survey. 



One of the greatest needs that this country has to-day is a cheaper 

 form of power, so that industries as yet undeveloped may in their 

 turn add to the national life. * * * Electrical power may be gen- 

 erated in many ways, but in none more practically than by the use of 

 water. We here avail ourselves of one of nature's resources without 

 in any way exhausting her reserve supplies, as is done in the present 

 wasteful use of coal. * * * The development of electrical energy 



