IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 
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The forest resources to which the cities of Seattle and Tacoma are 
so greatly indebted, have been vast, but, as it is at last evident to the 
least observant, they are not exhaustless. How fortunate that by the 
generosity of nature only ordinary prudence will suffice, as we have 
just seen, to renew the face of the world! Today the efforts of the 
United States government, of the state government, supported every- 
where by public sentiment, the consensus of opinion of all intelligent 
men, are sure to find reward in recurring harvests of the finest lumber 
ever garnered to the profit of enlightened men. 
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