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boxwood, paving blocks, crate wood, lath, shingles, baled shavings and 

 sawdust, poles, fence posts, stakes, fire logs, cordwood, w^ood distilla- 

 tion, charcoal, wood ashes for lye and compost, acid wood butts, and 

 pulp wood. All of these could be marketed in a local or foreign 

 market at a profit on the total production. 



Having three streams of sufficient volume to generate electrical 

 power to operate such a plant, also to supply power to operate a 

 pumping and watering system for the five acre nursery of the reserve, 

 the installation of such a system Avould not be amiss. 



Certain kinds of fire-killed timber can be disposed of to local buyers, 

 as in the cases already mentioned, and some cordwood could be sold 

 to those making their homes nearby, and at no cost of labor or 

 material to the Department; but such sales will be slowly made, and 

 the period to exhaust the thousands of cords of stove wood and the 

 many thousands board feet of lumber in log form will be long, after 

 which the real cleaning up must be done by the State. Until this is 

 done the reserve is open to fire, being practically without trails or 

 fire lanes, at the present time. With a plant as mentioned, or any 

 ether of value, and an organized working force fully equipped, the 

 question of the disposal of local fire-killed timber will be quickly 

 !b:olved, leaving a benefit in wages, a better sentiment toward forestry, 

 and a lasting benefit in the impression of its advantages. 



Thus briefly are outlined my ideas of the very important question 

 of the ^'Disposal of Fire-Killed Timber," on the Stone Keserve, a 

 matter on which I have had too little time to go into minute detail. 

 After careful consideration it is believed each acre of State land 

 having such timber, can be successfully handled, leaving to the State 

 a money profit and an improved acreage for reforestation. Of the 

 opportunity afforded by the danger of fire-killed timber to improve 

 the ranger ser-vice, its relation to the question of roads, fire lanes, 

 and trails, and a regularly employed labor force, cannot be entered 

 upon at this time. That fire-killed timber has a bearing on all these 

 matters is well understood by those who have given the subject con- 

 sideration. 



Finally, with a sales division of the Forestry Department organized 

 to study and ascertain the needs of every portion of this State or 

 nearby states, many or all of these products and by-products of the 

 reserves could be disposed of to advantage with permanent benefit 

 to the Department of Forestry. 



