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Unknown Canada. 
Desiute the great emigration boom that 
Canada has enjoyed for some years past, the 
rapidity with which her vast northwestern terri¬ 
tories have been opened up to settlement, and 
the girdling op of the country with a network 
of railways and telegraph posts, writes James 
Oliver Curwood, there yet.remain huge areas 
absolutely unknown and untouched, where all 
sorts of wonders may be discovered. Indeed, 
the enthusiastic explorer, longing for new 
worlds to conquer, may well select Canada as 
his goal. Here he will find limitless tracts of 
country—blank spaces on the map—where there 
are mighty ranges of mountains, great rivers 
and lakes, wonderful forests and wild prairie 
lands. Away up under the Arctic Circle there 
are probably tribes, Indian and Eskimo, whose 
very existence is unknown, and here also roam 
vast herds of the grandest game to be found on 
the face of the globe, and, if reports are to be 
credited, many new and strange beasts. To 
penetrate into these unmapped lands calls for 
grit and stamina of the highest order. The 
pioneer must be prepared to face hardships and 
perils as great as those encountered by the most 
daring of Arctic and Antarctic adventures. 
New York Stale College of Forestry. 
With the senior class of the College of 
Forestry yet to register, there are represented 
in the student body of the New York State 
College of Forestry forty-seven of the sixty-one 
counties of the State and nine States other than 
New York. The total number of students in 
the college at the present time is 203, divided 
as follows: Freshmen, 127; Sophomores, 62; 
Juniors, 20. 
Nine States of the Union in addition to 
New York are represented as follows: Connecti¬ 
cut, Massachusetts, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, 
Vermont, Virginia, Minnesota, North Carolina 
and Wisconsin. 
Three Chinamen, who have been sent to this 
country for their education by the Chinese Gov¬ 
ernment, are registered in the Freshman and 
Junior classes with the idea of preparing them¬ 
selves effectively for the practice of forestry in 
China. 
Immediately following the registration of 
over 200 students in the State College of Fores¬ 
try at Syracuse, the student body organized a 
Forestry Society for the purpose of getting- 
closer together as a student body and for de¬ 
bates and original discussions upon various 
phases of Forestry in New York and through¬ 
out the country. I. A. Williams, of Virginia, 
was elected President; A. G. Smith, of Rensse¬ 
laer county. Secretary; A. V. S. Pulling, of 
Dutchess county, Treasurer.. and C. V. Sweet, 
of Oswego county; J. H. Rich, of Onondaga 
county; W. I. Galligher, of Broome county, 
Executive Committee. 
Colorado Marble for Lincoln Memorial. 
The white marble, of which the great 
$2000,000 Lincoln memorial temple is to be built 
on the banks of the Potomac in Washington, is 
to come from the Sopris National Forest, Colo¬ 
rado. 
This is said to be the first great building in 
the East to be constructed of this stone, known 
to the building trades as Denver marble, though 
much of it has been used as an interior finish in 
public buildings. In the West a notable example 
of its use is found in the new Federal building 
at Denver. 
While the marble quarries are in the midst 
of the national forest, they are on private land 
secured under the laws by which areas bearing 
deposits of building stone are disposed of by 
the Government. Under the law prospectors can 
locate and secure title to mineral deposits on 
the national forests just as they can on the open 
public domain. The marble company which owns 
the quarries is a large user of national forest 
timber in the working of its properties, situated 
near Marble, Colo. 
The history of the company is said to be of 
considerable interest, as representing indomit¬ 
able enterprise against difficulties. The country 
in which the marble deposits occur is extremely 
rough and precipitous, and for a long time was 
inaccessible because of a lack of transportation 
facilities. Large sums had to be expended be¬ 
fore the stone could be got out and brought to 
market. Up to 1907. when the product first 
began to attract attention, it is said that $1,000,- 
000 had been expended in developing the prop¬ 
erty. 
There is much waste in getting out the 
flawless white oak necessary for tight barrel 
staves. The forest service is trying to get man¬ 
ufacturers of parquetry flooring to use some of 
this waste. 
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