MATCHLESS 
EOREST ENDOWMENT 
or PACinc slope 
Particularly California 
Mother Nature is wonderfully lavish with her 
favors towards some countries, and as strangely nig¬ 
gardly to others. 
No more striking proof of this fact is found than 
that of the distribution of the forests over the land- 
surface of the earth. It is but little understood 
that the most wonderful and valuable forest known 
is that of Northwest America. 
This forest possesses more kinds or species of 
resinous-wooded, needle-leaved, cone-bearing trees 
than any equal area in the world, and these trees 
are either the largest in dimensions, or they bear 
the largest fruits, called cones, that the earth has 
produced. 
This matchless combination of superlative quali¬ 
ties has been bestowed by circumstances and forces 
so wonderful as to give the phenomenon the char¬ 
acter of a distinct gift or local endowment. 
Passing by the non-resinous, broad-leaved trees, 
of which there is a liberal allowance, the resinous- 
wooded, cone-bearing trees of the Pacific Slope 
