Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-12
Forests and Streams.

Lumbernan's Gazette of East Saginaw, Mich.
About two months ago we published an
article on the effect of the removal of the
timber from the headwaters of the Hudson
river On the navigation OF that stream at
Troy, Albany and down as far as Hudson,
showing that it caused unusual freshets in
the spring, with incalueulable damage, in
consequence Of the removal of the timber
permitting the free and uninterrupted
flow of the rainfall and melted Snow into
the tributary streams and flooding them,
and the combination of the same COM
pletely filing the bed of the Hudson until
It's accumulated force swept everything
before it, destroying property aud very Of
ten sacrificing human lives. While this Is
SO, the subsistence Of the overflow leaves
the bed Of the stream in midapmmer near
ly dry, because the supply which con-
tiaued during the simmer months, while
the forests were standing, 30 distribute the
outflow gradually, was exhausted, ana left
nothing to feed the main stream except the
springs and osher natural resources of the
rivulets at the headwaters. The result is
shat the navigation OF the Hudson river
from Hudson to Troy ID seriously en-
gca1d old stream, unless the legislature
IL lsrfeTe TO prevent such u contamination,
By forests protection end en- Organized
system &C arboricUltGre, will soon be com
PEELED TO saell its destination by rail
Since the publication CT our article or
this subject the S5D has discussed tins
question of the endangered condition Of
the grand old Hudson which has SC long ben
The prlde and beast not only OF New York
state, but os the nation, ezubodying al the
facts presented By Us and painting it in
a much stronger light than we hsd
presumed TO, and also urging the law
makers Of The empire state to immediate
action, ia preventing the slaughter OF tim
Der in the Adirondack region, and a sys-
tematio re-atforesting of the .denude dland
at the head-waters and around the trib-
utary streams of the Hudson. Thus are
New York and other states being aroused
on this important question, which lnvol
YES 80 much of the business and CONNER
ciai prosperity of the notation.
The Penobscot river is also yearly suf-
fering from the same cause, and the nav
| igation of that stream is also annually
| threatened. A correspondent of the Bos-
| ton Post reports that the loss to Bangor
| could not now be repaired before the close
of navigation. The Penobscot at that
point is SO low that the Boston steamers
can scarcely navigate it, and vessels lie
| aground at many docks where there is
usually deep water. The water opposite
| the city is SO salt that it cannot be drunk,
| and boatmen have to get their supply else
where; and the boilers of the steam mills
which use river water are coated with salt
Many of the water power mills have shut
down and those still in operation arc run
ming slowly, ourtailing the production OF
lumber 100000 feet day. It is many
years, says the Posts correspondent, since
the docks at Bangor we're SO cleaned of
manufactured lumber, and while possibly no
single industry has suffered SO materially
from the prolonged drought in New Eag-
land resulting from tbs various causes al
Iuded TO above, rs tho lumber business in
all its ramifoatiOns yet navigation, com
merce, mercantile and manufacturing il
dgstrie5 are all affected to a greater Or
less extent.