
and OQ 
are ideal vacation months | 
in Northern 
WISCONSIN 
Fishing, golf- 
ing, hiking, 
canoeing—Aut- 
umn is in all its 
glory in the 
great North 
Woods. Hotel, 
cottage and 
camp accom- 
modations. 
Bargain 
Vacation 
Fares 
Call or write for illustrated folder 
with large detailed map, informa- 
tion about fares and list of resorts. 
C. A. Cairns, 
Pass’r Traf. Mgr. 
C. & N. W. Ry. 
226 W. Jackson Blvd. 
Chicago, Ill. 

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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
been appalling. Trees have been cut 
and piled and burned in great pyres. 
There was not sufficient revenue to 
warrant the harvesting of anything 
save pulp and pine. Yet a day will un- 
doubtedly come, and that day is not 
very far off either, when these very 
same hardwoods that have been de- 
stroyed so wantonly will be worth as 
much as the coveted pulpwood. 
In discussing the devastation of the 
region in question with an advocate of 
commercialism, he pointed out to me 
with particular pains that the build- 
ing of this storage reservoir was of 
the utmost necessity to the mills on the 
Black and Moose Rivers, that it was 
a public benefit because the people em- 
ployed by these great corporations 
would be able to continue work through- 
out the summer, now that means of 
power generation were increased dur- 
ing the months when the water supply 
was naturally at its lowest; and be- 
cause, in turn, local trade would be 
helped on account of the mills pdeing 
able to run full blast at a season when 
they were habitually closed down. 
ROM a commercial standpoint his 
argument was solid, but it does not 
refute the issue at stake, namely, the 
overriding of the conservative policy 
in regard to the forests of our state, 
and the utilization of public lands for 
personal gain. 
Relative to the wholesale destruc- 
tion of the seventy-five hundred acres 
of timberland in connection with the 
building of the Beaver River dam noth- 
ing can now of course be done. The 
work was rushed at such a speed that 
the forest went down over night, so to 
speak. North of Beaver River station 
the track of the Mohawk and Malone 
division of the New York Central is 
being raised fourteen feet in order to 
escape inundation—a pretty *feat of 
engineering handled by the Walsh Con- 
struction Company of Davenport, Iowa. 
Wherever one looks, steam shovels, hy- 
draulic pumps, temporary railroad sid- 
ings, workmen’s shacks and lumber 
camps dot the wide reaches of a tree- 
less land. And everywhere human 
creatures are ceaselessly toiling, cut- 
ting down and burning up and mak- 
ing a graveyard out of the forest. 
By next spring the charred stumps 
and debris and wide waste of naked 
land will be under water. A lake that 
is very liable to become a vast mud hole 
during periods of drought will cover 
up the old deer trails and pleasant 
camping sites of bygone days. 
Noe we will ask ourselves again: 
“Haven’t the Adirondacks already 
a sufficient number of lakes without 
making any more? Are we going to 
witness operations similar to this one 
It will identify you. 
carried on in other localities because 
pulp mills and factories need more elec- 
tric power? Are we going to stand by 
without protest and see the wild wil- 
derness of the North Woods sacrificed 
to commercialism, so that in time with — 
our tremendously increasing popula- ; 
tion there will be nothing left but rocks — 
and erosion, with the gaunt figure of 
Famine stalking in the background?” 
Not only because it takes centuries — 
to grow forests, and because the pros- . 
perity of a nation is based on its for- . 
ests, but primarily on account of fu- 
ture water supply and the necessity of 
maintaining a place of wholesome rec- 
reation for work-harassed humanity, 
and as well a sanctuary for wild life, 
should the Adirondacks be rigidly — 
guarded against commercialistic greed. | 
Oe resources appearing on the sur- 
face so vast, we think with chil-— 
dish persistency there will be no end 
to them, and this attitude of improvi- 
dency is especially true in regard to 
trees. Statistics prove that the rate 
of forest destruction throughout the 
United States, let alone the Adiron- 
dack region, is a blight and shame on 
our nation. <A day of reckoning will 
come, and the generations of the fu- 
ture will have good reason for con- 
demning the generations of the past. 
In view of the conservation of our | 
wilderness lands we cannot wholly dis- ~ 
regard a certain amount of sentiment. 
Great as are man’s modern achieve- 
ments there is little beauty in them. 
Commercialism is a dry and musty sub- 
stitute for art and the loveliness of — 
the world that is ours. -Pulp mills, 
reservoirs, dead timber, electric power 
lines, dry water courses, and manufac- 
tories—will they satisfy a certain cry- 
ing need that is, or should be, in every 
human soul? Will they make people 
happy, will they give people health as 
the forest does? In the face of howl- 
ing materialism, in the face of syba- 
ritic luxuries and easy-living and neu- 
rotic haste we need now, more than 
ever before, reservations where man 
can still be quiet, and live intimately 
with nature. And the country that 
stirs and thrills, the country that lies 
close to the heart of beauty, is the coun- 
try that has been left undisturbed and 
primitive, as God made it. 

