The Press., 1885-04-02

first, and forever wish there could be law tomorrow that there never should be a stick cut for lumber in all the North Woods.s I wish that for our own houses up here we had to wagon every board from Grown Point and Ogdensbnrg. 1t would be better for the country. The real use and worth of this mountain country Is in its being Q region for tourists. The tourist interest is the one true and per- manent interest, value and source of bene- fit which makes the North Woods the most important possession of the state of New York. It ought to be region of good roads and of everlasting natural beau ty, freshness and solitude. Not tree should be cut thoughtlessly. The whole region should have been retained by the state lii perpetual possession, and ii no lumber had ever been cut here it would not have made so much difference as peO- pie think in the wealth of the country. The lumbermeu would not have been paupers. There would have been other sources of timber supply. What we need most to-day is not more timber lands so much as better judgment in taking care of what we have. If the timbers here had always been cut ill the right way, far great CT revenues than it has yielded might have been drawn from this region, and yet every square mile of it might now be clothed with forests There never was anything more insane than our way of cutting the woods off clean as we go.' 1t makes money? Yes; you might sell your parlor furniture for kindling wood. Talk about 1 the wealth derived from the lumber busi- ness! It is just the same as a farmer cut ting off a young orchard, just as the trees come into bearing, and selling the wood charcoal nfArG hot would have borne golden fruit, and more and more of it forever, and we are cutting 1t off to get money for the. charcoal! We ought to begln at once to take care of the whole region, so that it will get to be fresh, and attractive and interesting again, as fast as Nature can undo our mischief and ruin. If we did this we should soon see tourists bringing great deal more money into the region than the lumbermen have got ont of 1t, and the profits of the tourist business would increase forever, instead oi destroying the source from which they i proceed"
 ''Ah!' said the journalist, eff anything could be done :"
 ! Sad the traveller: "Why not call pub lie attention to the matter when you SC back to your newspaper in New Nork ?'
 '1 might, If the editor approves, but that is not what I am expected to do--not ill the way you mean.
 Tbe doctor, turning again to the lumber man, ask. d: "Well,r what do you think might be done ?" A long smoke in si lence. Then: 'It always takes two ol three mn to do anything. One man
 alone, is martyr and failure. He find, everything out of joint, himself most O all. This company could come as neal saving the Adirondack forests as anybody
 Then there are two or three men ln New
 York city who, if we could find them, oJ
 they could find us, might help us.- They and we together couldssave the woods, i
 we have the patience, and are sad enough
 about the pr. sent state of things, and i
 we are not too rich, or too wise''
 The landlord added that he had long
 felt that the condition of the woods woult
 never be such as to give to visitors tn full benefit of the region till the natura
 quiet and beauty of the forests were re
 stored, so as to make them again, as in tn
 old days, attractive to women. He ha,
 observed that women feel the ugliness q
 the clearings, and of the dead woods alon
 the lakes and rivers, far more than men.
 The doctor said he understood the lum ! berman's thought, and it was right. ar
 not sure that we all understand it SO fully But we all said we would do anything { save the North Woods: