IAMAGES AWARDED TO GOV- 
“ERNMENT FOR DESTRUC- 
_ TION OF YOUNG FOREST 
GROWTH. 
In an action for fire trespass on 
the Black Hills National Forest 
‘ ought, by the United States 
inst the Missouri River and 
rthwestern Railroad, the jury has 
warded damages to the Govern- 
ent not only for the loss of mer- 
ntable timber, but also for the 
destruction oof unmerchantable 
young growth. 
This is regarded by Government 
officials as establishing a very im- 
portant precedent. So far as is 
mown at the U. 8S. Department of 
Agriculture, it is the first time that 
y court has recognized what for- 
ters call the ‘‘expectation value”’ 
‘young growth as furnishing a 
sis for the award of damages. The 
difficulty in the way if such an 
| award in the past has been that 
there was no way to prove to the sat- 
isfaction of the courts the money 
value of the loss suffered. 
The award in the South Dakota 
ease followed the presentation of 
yidence as to the cost of work in 
foresting which the Government 
is actually doing in the Black Hills. 
‘The amount claimed for the young 
Bpowth burned was $12 an acre, and 
the claim under this item was al- 
lowed in fuil by the jury. The total 
amount of damages claimed was 
$3,728.85, of which $2,634.45 was 
for merchantable timber destroyed 
or injured by the fire. 
? It is recognized by foresters that 
the cost of artificial reforestation 
will not always furnish a fair basis 
for estimating the damage to forest 
reproduction. Where new growth 
can be expected by natural sowing 
fi ‘om. seed-trees on the ground with- 
‘ a short time, artificial planting or 
sowing is an unnecessarily expen- 
sive method. To meet such cases 
what are known as “‘yield tables’’ 
‘are being prepared. By the use of 
hese the loss can be shown in terms 
of the final crop and the time neces- 
sary to produce it. 
_ hus, if it is known that ten 
thousand feet of. timber per acre 
ean be cut once in seventy years, 
it is easy to calculate the value 
of the crop when it is ten years old 
by discounting from its value when 
‘mature. In European countries 
where forestry has been long prac- 
_tised this method is regularly ap- 
plied in selling, condemning, or es- 
‘fimating damages on forest proper- 
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MANCHESTER, MASS. 
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