Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-05

SnlpplnR OF rOuRn lunOer ralneT lnan
its manufacture here"
This suggests another very forcible
objection to the bill. The lumber is not
manufactured in the vicinity where it
grows, but floated down the river at a
nominal outlay to Bellows Falls, and
when manufactured there it is not for
the general use and benefit of Vermont
ers, but to make one man or four men
immensely wealthy. Of course this is
very seriously to the detriment of the
towns from which the lumber is taken,
whether or not many citizens of some
of those towns can be induced by various
methods to petition for the bill.
This bill should not pass, but bill
should pass and pass at once, authoriz-
ing the State to purchase its best lumber
lands yet untouched, that can be pur-
chased low, and to place the same under
proper management. Before this or
similar charters are given away this can
be done so that the State will make
largely on all its purchases.
The gentleman from New Hampshire,
Mr.. Crawford, who has appeared before
the committee in connection with this
bill, is by far the most intelligent fores-
ter that | have ever met. Through a
long and laborious life he has been fa-
miliar with the forests, especially of New
Hampshire, and he tells me that he has
himself purchased for different parties be-
tween 200, 900 and 100000 acres of forest
land. Mr.. Crawford has testified before
this committee something of the manage
, ment of forestry in Europe, especially in
Germany. | understand from Mr.. Craw.
ford that he has been requested to APP
pear soon before the committee of fores-
try of New Hampshire to express his
views about forest preservation, and he
says that he shall say to them, Il know OF
; tract of forest in the heart of thu
White mountains, as yet untouched, com
2 prising some 100000 acres. This can o.
could quite recently be bought for fiv'
4 dollars an acre. All of these spruc,
I lands yield on an average 100000 feet o
! marketable lumber to the 100 acres, ant
A if New Hampshire would buy this tract
8 then divide it up into parcels of 500
= acres each, she could, by numbering on
p of these parcels yearly, readily sell eacl
e year $4,000 worth of lumber on tn
o stump and leave standing all trees un
= der II inches in diameter. This woul
e give sinking fund of $40, 900 to apply o.
e the purchase money! $40, 600 more t.
e pay interest at per cent of the Who'll
y amount borrowed, and $4,000 to pa
# expenses of forest supervision and nj
S cessary roads. The interest each sue
:, cessive year would be less and in 20 @
G % years the whole amount, principal an
It interest, would be paid and New Ham,
= shire own a forest as valuable and pei
, haps more than when purchased
y We have better opportunity than tn
u to buy lumber lands providing this bill
II not passed. They could be bought Il
u the way from 81 to 81 an acre. Pa
T. this bill and that opportunity to the Sta
to save to itself hundreds of thousands
t dollars of property and to the people
: the State for all time supply of lumb,
Is to be had at reasonable cost. will be gon
u 1t does not seem to me, Mr.. Chairma
'e and gentlemen of this committee, tn;
IL you will wish thus or that this legisl
SC ture will wish to sell thus our heritaG
&c for mess of pottage."
:. Mr. Battell then gave many facts al
figures from the article on forests in II
- 9th volume Of the Encyclopedia BRITAIN
-, ca, where it is shown that the princip
:. of preservation of the forests is enforce
+, by every considerable state in Eurol
10 except Spain, and that by using ii
~ mature and preserving the GROWN
% timber the forests are made to yield e,
cellent financial results. He then said
- closing:
20 81 will touch upon one more subjec
: that of summer hotels and summer visi
- ors. 1t is claimed that the pulp compar
- which seeks this charter use 10000,
10 feet of spruce per year, and that the e
no pense of cutting and delivering this
-. Bellows Falls would be S. per thousan
ot or S25, 900.
.ir One summer hotel with the capacity
r. 200 boarders should bring into the Sta
to at least this amount every year, and tw
IS thirds to three-quarters of this is pa
III out for supplies and help, mostly in Il
" immediate vicinity where the hotel is sit
e. ated Our State should be filled with SUI
ne mer hotels. There is no more beautif
he region for summer travel and none mo
H. accessible to the great centres of popul
e. ton. have seen it stated and suppo
If it to be true that each year betwe'
w $4,000, 900 and S3,000,000 are left in Ne
H. Hampshire by summer visitors. We
or mont ought to have an equally lar
amount. And she can have if we app
On ourselves rightly to the getting of
. This mighty rih of old forest that RI