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After 10 or 15 years, when the plantations have become self-support- 
ing and begin to yield valuable material, the former owner of the land 
or his successor may be given opportunity of reclaiming his property 
by repaying price received for the land with interest and cost of plan- 
tation less share of the taxes paid toward the forest improvement fund ; 
submitting, however, in the use of the forest growth to such regulations 
as Seem necessary to insure continued value as a cover. 
By some such plan, in which I can not see anything impracticable, 
the advantages of codperation and State credit are secured, and yet 
those who are directly benefited have paid for it: at the lowest rate, 
however. 
What I have seen of the enterprising spirit in your State, and espe- 
cially what I have heard of the management of your board this after- 
noon, has inspired me with the belief that it is not chimerical to expect 
action of this kind from your public spirit. 
