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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 14. 1908. 
$250 in Prizes for 
Narratives of Outdoor Life 
Cash Prizes for True Stories—A Chance for 
Every One to Turn Experience to Account 
ONE PRIZE OF $100.00 
ONE OF $50.00 TWO OF $25.00 FIVE OF $10.00 
Forest and Stream wants true stories of life in the open. Not fiction, 
but narratives of travel, adventure, life in the wild, experiences with big 
game. They must be Forest and Stream narratives, with all that this im¬ 
plies. They must be based on your own experiences or the experiences of 
those you know. They must be above the level of the commonplace, the 
kinds of happenings that appeal to the real outdoor man, that stir the 
memory, that make the blood tingle. 
The competition is open to everyone. There are no limitations. Con¬ 
tribution' must be legibly written, preferably typewritten, on one side of 
the paper, Manuscript for the first and second prizes must not be less than 
10,000 words or more than 15,000. Manuscript to be considered for the 
$25 prizes must not be less than 5,000 words. 
Manuscript awarded a prize becomes at once the property of Forest 
and Stream. We reserve the right to reject any or all manuscript sub¬ 
mitted. Manuscript which does not receive a prize will be returned to the 
writer if accompanied by stamps. We always have need of good stories 
of the Forest and Stream kind. Every good manuscript which does not 
win a prize may be available for our use. 
HERE ARE A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR SUBJECTS: 
Adventures With Big Game at Home or Abroad 
Travel in Wild Lands Camp Lite in the Woods 
Small Game Shooting 
When photographs accompany manuscript their interest will be given 
consideration in determining the availability of the contribution, but no 
manuscript will be accepted wholly because of the quality of the photo¬ 
graphs. 
PRIZES IN DETAIL: 
$100 lor the best narrative ol Outdoor Lite not less than 10,000 words 
$50 lor the second best manuscript of not less than 10,000 words 
$25_Two prizes of $25 each for two manuscripts of not less than 
5,000 words each 
Five prizes of $10 each for the bes short <2,500 word) narratives of 
Outdoor Life 
This contest will close Dec. 15, 1908, and the prize winners will be 
announced in Forest and Stream at the earliest possible date thereafter. 
All communications should be addressed to Forest and Stream and plainly 
marked “Prize Competition.” 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 127 Franklin St„ N. Y. 
FOREST CENSUS. 
The National Conservation Commission has 
caused the first comprehensive attempt at a 
census of the standing timber in the United 
States ever undertaken. The Forest Service has 
for several years been eager to take such a 
census, and the Bureau of the Census has ex¬ 
pressed its willingness to co-operate, but funds 
have never been available. The Conservation 
Commission, however, needs the information I 
to help complete its inventory of the country’s 
natural resources, which it will include in its 
report to the President, and since that report 
is to be submitted on the first of next year, it 
needs the information at once. In consequence | 
the work on the census has been started with j 
a rush and is now under full headway. 
It may be a slight exaggeration to speak of j 
a census of timber, for of course it is impossible 
to count the individual trees in the forests; 
even the most ambitious plans of the Forest 
Service and the Bureau of the Census did not | 
contemplate that. But a trained man can with 
great accuracy “cruise” a tract of forest and 
estimate the number of board feet it contains. 
Large portions of the forests of the country, 
including practically all the national forests, 
have been estimated at various times, but these 
figures have never been brought together and 
no organized effort has ever been made to 
gather them into one total, nor to supply the 
deficiencies where hitherto no estimates have 
been made. 
As a result, the guesses as to the amount of 
standing timber in the United States, range all 
the way from 822,682 million to 2,000 billion 
board feet—a difference of more than a trillion 
(Continued on page 765.) 
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not responsibile for the views of correspondents. 
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