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merely to pay the necessary expenses of
the federal employe assigned to the work.
DR.. Webb also had his tract, which con-
tains about 10000 acres, examined by the
government. The government experts went
of which the initials "U. s." were cut.
Every tree that was selected as a proper one
for Telling was "blazed" with this below the
stump, and the lumbermen had orders to
chop down no tree unless 1t was so marked.
The results of the introduction of scien-
tifc methods were surprising. The net cost
to the owner Of going through the Webb
tract and marking the trees was $543.7 70.
Among the wasteful methods discovered in
the tract and checked by the examination
was that Of leaving high stumps. The lum-
bermen do not care to cut the trees near
the ground because the work is much harder
ment the foresters demonstrated that on a
tract of 10000 acres the net loss from leav-
ing high stumps was $4,000, which could be
saved readily each year.
They also drew up a plan for cutting the
tops instead OF leaving them In the woods.
As a rule, the lumbermen lop off from four
to twelve feet Of the tops and this debris
always has been one Of the great sources Of
forest fires. Lumbermen have objected to
carrying the tops out. because they declared
that they we're unstable waste and repre-
scented nothing but loss and that conse-
Quently 1t would be ruinous to go to the
extra expense Of transporting them.
TIL foresters showed that the tops that
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were left In the woods Of a 40. 000-acre tract
would be worth SO, 1900. Thus lmprovident
numbering not only caused a constant
menace from fire. but actually thousands of
dollars had been left in the woods to rot
each year.
The examination Of the whitney and Webb
tracts also showed the owners that enough
young spruces are cut each year for skid
ways and corduroy roads by the le.nbermen
to make a pretty good forest in themselves,
IL they we're left to grow and that
II certain sums were set aside now to build
roads from other materials, In twenty-five
years there would be many thousands OF
marketable trees that would more than pay
for the roads and the interest on the money
thus invested.
As a consequence OF the examination,
stringent rules have been adopted in both
the whitney and Webb preserves. They
are that no trees shall be cut unless they
have been marked, while all marked trees
must be felled; no tree shall be left lodged
in the woods to decay or go to waste; no
trees shall be cut higher than six inches
above the ground; no spruce shall be used
for bridges, sideways, corduroy roads or
ether purposes unless no other less valu-
able timber can be obtained; all spruce
ubtA " en- dWag6 DS h1hAC0 ~ eANNt
such use II 1t is at all marketable; con-
tractors must discharge any men who do
unnecessary damage to young trees.
The net result Of the working plans thus
made will be that, II they are followed
faithfully and under the care Of efficient
foresters, numbering can go on steadily
with the present annua output in the two
tracts and yet In thirty-six years there
will be so many new trees that the original
cut can be obtained from the land. In
other words. the forest will have reproduced
itself.
Thus, with the Introduction of practical
foresters, the problem Of the forests will
be i'm a way to be solved satisfactorily and
practically in the United States. Lumber
ing need not be prohibited, but merely
guided wisely, and there will be no more
danger OF American lands being denuded
of forests han there is in Germany. The
stringent laws of Germany need not be In
trodueed here, for the owners OF woodland
are learning that It is not only to their
future, but their immediate profit TO lumber
conservatively.
In Germany the numbering laws are so
strict that even the gathering OF dried
branches and twigs is permitted only under
definite stipulations. Telling trees ile-
gally, or, indeed. taking any lumber out OF
a forest without the sanction Of law,
whether the lumber be a branch of a tree,
is defined as wood theft and is punished
like any other theft. The result Is that
there Is a feeling in Germany against
illegal numbering that makes the perpe-
traitor a criminal, not only in the eyes of
the law. but also In the eyes Of society.
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the skill Of a Bierstadt nor a Moran could
picture their pure atmosphere-so like the
breath from Paradise-nor reproduce their
beauteous colors and forms.
The Ave great natural parks Of Colorado
bear an important relation to the state in
all her diversified interests. They consti-
tute one Of her chief g%lories. They are not,
as many suppose, small areas Of level
ground closely hemmed in by neighboring
hills, and beautiful with evergreens and
flowers, but they are vast territories Of
country, large enough for a principality,
larger than two or three counties of many
states, and almost as large as some of the
states themselves. They contain fields and
forests and great stretches Of arid plains,
where the herds of the cattlemen have sue
ceeded the herds Of buffalo; they are
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more delightful journey through the
Rockies. With easy and rapid tran
sit along the valleys, or plunging wildly
through canyons, or whirling around and
over the dizzy SUBMITS, the tourist Of to-
day may sit at the window of his luxurious
palace car, charmed with wonder and ad-
miration as the grand panorama of noun
tain peaks roll by as If upon a scroll, with
here and there a charming vista of glens,
peaks and valleys, with their sparkling
waters, their verdure and their flowers-an
e~ver-changeful vision of all that is grotesque
and beautiful in this rugged ~confguration
in the face of Mother Earth.
Assuming that the searcher after rest
amidst Natures richest treasures goes from
st. Louis to Denver he will assuredly seek
out the Colorado parks. To fully understand
the Colorado parks they must be seen. No
description can do them justice and neither
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sections are North Park, Middle Park, Estes
Park, South Park and San Luis Park.
The parks in their general features form
irregular plateaus or basins, their surface
diversified with gently rolling hills and
long, level bottoms. The valleys are clothed
with luxuriant grasses and towering plants
and the hills are covered with heavy tim
Der. so that the natural beauties Of hill and
valley, forest and plain are combined. Pos
sessing all these advantages. the parks will
become commemorative to the farmer, the
herdsman and the hunter, while the clear,
cool, braclng and refreshing atmosphere is
celebrating and inv~igorating. These parks
have many attractions that invite people
within their borders for health and recrea-
tion.
For game these parks have no equal in
the world, for numerous streams running
through them are the homes Of myriads Of
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4 7HERE shall we go? Literally, the
burning question, and echo an
. swers, to Colorado and Utah. In
a brief resume 1t is impossible
- to do more than briefly indicate
w Of the wonders of this entrancingly
ltiful part Of the country.
be scenes, incidents and adventures Of
~ travel in Colorado have furnished
.ers 18th the material for many Of the
I entertaining descriptive letters ever
|ished in America. These letters found
| more eager and more numerous read
Years ago, when there were no railroads,
when the journey by wagon, on horse
on foot, over the mountain trail, or
,gh perilous passes, was fraught with
Jlties, dangers and wild adventures.
the Indian was to be found on every
vay, ready to take the scalp of a white
II he were in the humor to do so,
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NEW profession has been opened
in the United States. 1t deals
with a subject hat is not only
MI vital, but n whose vast i'm
p~ortance to both personal and
nal interests has become thoroughly
nized. 1t is the profession of for
course, there have been forestry ex-
in this country for many years. But
of them were government employees
ne way or another, and government
rol of forests meant generally only the
hrving of tracts that were set aside
ate or federal authority. to be i'm
/ from the lumberman and to be pre-
I as parks and forest reserves.
Il the new science shaped itself slowly
the wal Of conflicting interests, for
= in the United States, as interpreted
se public, practically mean only the
,sOn Of saving American trees from the
But while all this superficial fighting
on between lumbermen and their sup
IS on one side n idealists and
Rts on the other, the true science
Qaping itself.
pg men, some sent by the govern
Az others studying on their own ac>
were learning in Europe what real
fy was in the lands where, despite
Il numbering, the forests still stand
md beautiful.
ile past few years these men have
returning to tell America how to
ne profitable cutting with profitable
walton, and with the knowledge that
s. forest owners how to draw income
their property and yet keep in-in
Bords, how to eat their cake and have
o. the new commercial profession of
~ has become an important and
we one.
Skkny respects 1t is an ideal pursuit.
= RS uneQualed opportunity for living
- and healthful out-of-doors life. 1t
Sith natures greatest beauties. 1t
profession hat is not crowded. 1t
chances for wealth, since the trained
ua forester can see chances in the
Tess which the unframed man, and
, trained but unscientiic woodsman,
ohot guess. 1t is a business that
IS ample salary, for the forester can
% employers where they can save or
1ousands Of dollars that, without
uld be lost.
1.-THE American forester must perfect
in his science by studying Euro
mrestry, American conditions differ
.Sairally from those of Europe that for
the United States is a profession Of
and the American has little to fear
older colleagues on the other side.
s. Graves. superintendent OF work
: OF the Department Of Agriculture,
this by saying that the American
must direct his efforts, not to the
re Introduction Of European meth
by devising systems which can be
by land owners at once, and which
5~shble Of development as the condi-
the market allow them. In many
, system will differ radically from
tieed in Europe.
5 field where practical foresters are
qdly and at once in America is on
woodlands owned OF controlled by
anufaeturing concerns. Many of
confronted with the problem OF a
9ss Of their source of wood pulp.
re hope is to introduce such a sys-
mbering that they can cut success
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One Sure Indication

Chicago Tribune: "You think it's going
to be a hard winter? Surely you don't
imagine that those things eredulous people
believe in about the goose bone. the musk
rats habitation. the corn husk and the
like have anything to do with the weather
four months ahead. do your"
"Well. there's one sign / never knew to
sfail. always know it's going to be a hard
winter when coal is $40 q ton"
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Beautiful Scenery of Glorious Colorado

while hungry bears and
ferocious mo u n t a | n
lions lurked in the way.
Such perils as these.
added greatly to the
charm Of the narrative
as 1t appeared in print,
and made pleasure
seeking somewhat Of a
hardship. But such
embarrassme n { a s
these must have taken
much of the romance
out of the trip and
married ones perception
Of the grand and
beautiful in the glor-
ious mountain scenery
and delicious air Of
Colorado.
With the new era Of
railroads there Is a
phanUo that hrfnOo
many new charms and
affords the tourist a
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pany with deer and elk, the bison, the
mountain sheep and the smaller game, are
now the only residents OF this region.
Emerging from these dense forests into the
open sunlight, the tourist sometimes finds
himself upon the highest point OF the noun
tain, in the midst of a grassy lawn, dotted
with tiny flowers, and In the center Of this
lawn lies a beautiful lake. circular in form
and nearly a mile wide, its crystal waters
glistening In the sun, rejecting as in a mir
ror every object on its banks.
To enable persons to reach these favored
localities without unnecessary expenditure
OF time or money, the Union Pacific has put
in effect very low rates and splendid train
service, three trains leaving Missouri river
daily for Denver, one of which is THE Colo
RADIO Special" the finest and fastest train
in the west. Accommodations are provided
for all classes OF passengers on these trains,
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-hEAOhbD bf The ONloN PACIFIC.
watered by creeks and rivers and contain
villages and farmhouses; they have springs
and lakes, where hotels and other places Of
entertainment have been built for settlers,
for tourists, hunters, campers and others
seeking remote places of resort in the heart
of the Rocky Mountains. These prominent
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fish, while there
are plenty of
deer, elk, an
telope, bear,
mountain sheep,
grouse and quail,
squirrels and rab-
bits.
often the fol-
iage is 30 dense
that the suns
rays can scarcely
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penetrate IL, ana the ST.
lence as the traveller
wends his way by mar
row paths between the n
trees, though oppres-
sive, inspires the tour
list to moods of meditation
and flights of fancy withou.
the chance Of interruption
unless, peradventure, a beal
or mountain lion SHOULD
spring across his pathway
for these animals. in com.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22

Crossed
Behring


Letters have been received from
agents of the American Museum of
Natural History at work in neighbor-
ing parts of Siberia and Alaska in
which they say that evidences are ac-
cumufating OF the original identity of
the aboriginal Inhabitants OF Siberia
and North America. One Of these
agents, Mr.. Waldemar Jockelson. who
resided last winter with tribes OF
northeastern Siberia. has written to
DR.. Franz Boas that the mythology and
folklore of the Siberians and Alaskans
are Identical. and he has found evi-
dence Of racial similarity. Nearly 200
years ago evidence began to be found
pointing to the fact that Behring strait
had been crossed by natives. There
had evidently been communication
between the natives OF America and
Asia, fact that, of course indicated
the original Identity of the natives in
habiting the two continents The Rus
sian explorer Behring. did not find
the American mainland tin l74l. bu,
thirty years before Behring saw the
shores of America, separated from Asia
only by a narrow arm of the sea,
Russian named Popon visited the Chu7
kchi natives and brought the news of
Islands and a continent beyond the
eastern point OF Asia. The Siberian
natives told Popoff that there was a
great land to the east. that they had
seen the natives there. and strange to
relate these eastern natives wore tails.
Russian geographers could not assimi-
late this information and relegated the
continent as we'll as the tails to the
limbo OF fiction. But we now know
that Popoff accurately reported the
Chukchi narrative and that the natives
told the truth as far as they under
stood it. II has been conclusiyely
shown by our chronological investlga-
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
Vnloads Ore Ships
Machinery Now Reduces the
Labor and Cost

hopper into small cars. which carry II
to stock piles at the rear OF the dock
It's capacity ranges under ordinary con-
ditions, from $50 to 300 tons per hour
1t reduces the labor employed rs per
cent, only six men being necessary for
the operation of each machine. Three
men are in the hold TO clean up the
ore which the machine cannot reach
and the other three are engaged in op-
Grating the machine. The entire cost.
including the wages OF workmen and
engineers, is 20 cents ton for remoY-
ing the ore from vessels and deposit
ing 1t ON railroad cars ready for trans
portation to the furnaces. This ma
chine has been introduced at most OF
the ore receiving ports. including
South Chicago. 1t has brought about
one OF the most important economies
recently introduced for lessening, the
cost OF producing pig iron.-New York
Sun.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
Wyoming Lands
for the Beers.
Immense Tract OF
Land
for Colony.

land, who Will establish a colony of
Beers and Holland Dutch on tract OF
300 900 acres just secured in the valley
of the Green river. in Sweet Water
county. The soil here is especially
adapted for sugar beet culture. and
large refinery will be established.
Montana has no such vast tracts OF
arid land TO be settled, but the State
Land Commission has this year pur-
sued a successful policy of auctioning
off the state land grants to bona fde
settlers. In this way 100000 has been
added to the endowment funds OF yari-
GUS state schools. Many hundreds OF
thousands of acres yet remain 10 be
disposed of.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
New Profession
for a Woman

Miss Alice Rigg of Windsor, Canada,
has proved that there is no limit to
woman's possibilities in the money
making world. She has opened up a
new profession, and a profitable one.
for her sisters. by tacking out her
shingle as an engraver of tombstones.
Miss Rigg had a hard fight to win
her way into the business world up in
conservative Canada and she had an
other tough struggle to keep her place
Then once she did gain a foothold
among the bread winners.
Her indomitable pluck and persever-
ance. however, brought her success
and she has established a large and
flourishing business and is now ac-
knowledged the most successful carver
on marble in the city of Windsor.
For many years, ever since she left
off short skirts and pinafores. in fact,
she has been interested in the work
which is her fathers profession. and
with the end in view OF some day as
sisting him in his work or starting in
business for herself, she studied art
She now carves beautiful designs
and artistic letters on marble and en-
joys the work as well as the honor
which comes to a full-hedged tomb
stone engraver
The work of monument artist" is
not > simple as the uniniIiated think
10 takes a true eye. a firm wrist.
well developed muscle, and the talent
of a sculptor to WELD the mallet and
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
Why We Can't
Talk with Mars
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

work on straight lines. These canals
with the assured existence of arctic
and tropical regions. Sir Robert said
are indications that human life is ex-
istent on Mars. No permanent water
and no river can be discerned in
Mars. What astronomers see are
straight lines. or rather lines falling
in straight circles along the globe
These are undoubtedly canals in a
great state of development 1t is not
known that these canals carried Of
the ice and snow that melted durln"
the summer season. but it is fact
that the observation OF the canals +
clearer at the season of the year when
it may be assumed that the snow and
ice are melting.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
Gold Nugget Built This Town.

At the recent national Congregation
Al council, in Portland, Me-. says Les
lies Weekly. the Rev. George II. Ide,
D. D., OF Milwaukee. related the fol-
lowing anecdote: "I have read how
a farmers wife, in the province of On
tario. many years ago, went searching
the woods for a COW that had strayed,
and. becoming thirsty, stopped to get
n drink from a spring. Slipping, she
fell against small, loose rock. which
rolled to her feet. and which proved
TO be a twenty-pound nugget of almost
pure gold. The effect of that acciden-
tai find was that within six months
a city of 5000 inhabitants was built"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22

The almost worldwide movement
for the colonization of the broad ex-
panses of Western territory as yet un-
dotted by homes OF settlers. is becom-
ing more and more definite every day.
Several movements are now on foot
which will bring hundreds of thou
sands of homeseekers into various
Northwestern states.
Wyoming is receiving her full share
of this colonization. The Homestead
Irrigation company of Saratoga is
making a special effort to reclaim 200.-
900 acres of land in the Saratoga val
ley. Fifteen hundred farmers have al
ready made application for tracts OF
this land. The Cody-Salsbury canal
project, in Big Horn county, Wyoming.
is another of the gigantic projects, in
whic ch Colonel w. f. Cody, better
known as Buffalo Bill" is Interested.
1t contemplates taking water out OF the
Shoshone river near the colon's town
OF Cody, and carrying it fifty miles in a
ditch, to cover about 245,000 acres of
rood agricultural land, now barren for
the want OF water.
Another equally gigantic project OF
Wyoming colonization Is that OF a
lumber sf bankers of The Hague. Hol-
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
RISE OF THE BROOK TROUT.
He Dashcs at the Fly from the Bottom
of the Stream.

He Dashes at the Fly from the Bottom
OF the Stream.
There is pretentious and, have
no doubt. costly, oil painting in the
window of an uptown art store" re-
marked an experienced and observant
angler, "in which a brook trout is rep
resented in the act of rising to fish
erman's fly. The fly has been cast on
the troubled surface OF rapids which,
In nature. would sweep the light-feath-
cred hook down stream so quickly that
the line and leader would be taut in
the fraction of a second. But in the
painting the leader is represented as
lying on the water in a careless loop
above the spot where the fly has
dropped, while the latter defies the We
locity of the rapids and seems ready
to be floating up stream to meet the
trout, which has leaped clear OF th'
water and is poised in graceful curvs
as he swoops down upon the patient
and obliging fly from the air like
hawk on a chicken. Scores of people
stop at the window every day and ad-
going for that fly. II the artist who
painted the picture ever saw trout
rise to fly in that way and failed to
secure 1t at once he made a big mis-
take. II would have been curiosity
worth having stuffed. The real trout
out for business doesn't play the part
OF a hawk in taking his prey" con-
tinued the angler, according to the
New York Times. "He rises to the fly
from the bottom of the water. rushing
upward like rocket He kes 1t win
a swoop and whiri from beneath, and
II he shows himself at all it is when
he turns to go back to his haunt at the
bottom. One might as soon expect to
see hawk rise from the ground to
seize a chicken roosting in the top of
tree, as to see brook trout shoot
out above the surface of the stream
and pcunce down from the air upon
a fly lying on the water. as this pic
ture gayly assures the admiring public
he - in the habit of doing"
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-22
Common Origin
OF Asian and
American Natives

tions among the Eskimos on the
American side OF Behrlng strait that
at their formal dances and festivals
they invariably fastened the tail OF a
wolf or dog at the base OF the spine as
II II grew there. This practice doubt
les9 was witnessed by the Chukchis
and led to their belief that the people
across the strait had tails. This evi-
dence that the northern aborigincs
really crossed Behring strait from one
continent to the other long ago in
creased the probability of the theory
that this continent was peopled by inn
migration from Asia, and the evidence
gathered since Popon's time has only
served to confirm this theory New
York Sun