Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1871-05-02
The GrO,cth OF Forests.

\ writer in the kennebec journal states
these interesting facts 60
regard our forests, good. beautiful
and lovely rs they are. Is a harvest viii n
the Creator has prepared for "a, TO be
gathered in as il ripens, and the same
benefccnt Creator who has given Us the
first harvest. will in due time replace the
first, with second. y potion OF thi,
timber crop is ready next year, and there
will be no year in all coming time ia
Maine. if proper care be taken to raise
this crop. which OF course must be done
as in other products OF our land, when
there will not be on abundant harvest of
all kinds OF our forest trees. waving in
the breeze, and ready for the lumber.
mans axe 10 supply all our wants OF the
kind
am told that in the County OF York,
which was the first in this State visited by
these destructive lunbermen and more
destructive fires, an which ha> been the
scene OF numbering operations To the
present time, there is more lumber now
than there was fifty Years ago. and more
ia value than there ever was. In 1884
sold several loo acre lots, in 4 town In
Franklin County. on tax sale, to pay
$40 tax or each lot. This land former
ly covered with a heavy growth of pine,
bat then. destitute OF everything except
stumps, old logs, and very small pines.
poplarS and white birches. Twenty-Five
years fter | sold them. was told by one
OF The officers OF that town, that these
lots could rot be bought for 4 thousand
dollars each, that they were covered with
heavy growth OF pine, forty, fifty, anu
sixty feet high, much of il twenty inches
in diameter. The trees HOW growing in
the streets and public and private grounds
OF this beautiful city OF AUGUSTA. are
commercially worth more to-day, Tor
wood and timber, than the original growth
OF timber rG>; and iurall the purposes ct
shade, and the condeuSing the moisture
ct the atmosphere. 80 a. 20 produce rain.
according Ia the theory OF some. are
quite rs valuable n would bc the oriei.
nal forest, even it IL had hccu possible To
preserve il.
On the 18th ot June 1916. /, th.u u
boy. was narrowing in olt> ON some new
land in Franklin County Tha, year has
been regarded rs the coolest ever known
in Maine. and that day the coolest OF the
summer, Ice formed nearly or quite am
inch thick. and snow few rs luriuusly :s
in January Thiriy.tye years altcrwad.
was on the same ground, aud found "a
thick forest, in which they arc now hew.
ing timber IS inches square Tor a bridge.
Twenty ears ago the lot upon which
Is the humble home OF The writer of this,
was field of grass, the original growth
having been then recently destroyed by
the axe and fire. Now il il "a field Il
spruce. hacmctac, poplar. birch AMI other
trees, amounting to hundreds many OF
them lofty in height and loot or more
in diameter These trees are 10 me my
family. never ending source of pleas
ure, and ultimately will hc To Son,cb, dy
OF profit. They are
From ~to,m- q shelter.
And FROM hest q -iH'o
and without care or cost. or attention,
except to admire and love lhcn:. they
grow whilst we sleep. paying Us diy.
idend OF twenty-five per cent, upon the
money invested in the best OF all incomes,
happiness.