Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-09-14
FORESTRY
EXAMPLE
TIMBER MEN OF TEXAS
HEAD THE LIST.
An Object Lesson, Presented
for This Section.

for This Section.
Forestry on a huger scale than has
ever been attempted before in this
country by a private corporation will
be practiced in southeast Texas, when
the Kirby Lumber Company puts into
use the working plan for its lands
to be prepared by the Bureau of For
estry.
The numbering operations of the
Kirby Company are probably the lar
gest in the world. They extend over
a tract of a million and a quarter
acres of pine lands, which contains
about 80 per cent of all the long leaf
pine of Texas-a vast single body Of
virgin forest reaching out over seven
counties, and uninterrupted except
for the clearings around the villages
and farms which it incloses.
This great forest is estimated to
have contained. uncut-and the esti-
mate is low-six and quarter bill
ion merchantable feet of lumber,
board measure. The cuttings already
made amount to only a small percen-
tage of what the great forest origi-
nally contained.
The company operates II mills,
which now make an annual cut of
25O,OOO,OO feet. board measure, ana
supports a population of $4,000 peo-
pie. Since the forest is mature and
the culling of the larger trees, tire
annual cut is to be increased to 40O.-
100000 feet. In addition to the trees
used for lumber. which are cut down
to as low a diameter as II inches
1000, 900 ties are being cut out of the
forest from trees between , and II
inches in diameter to fill a contract
with the Sante Fe railroad.
1t is just because it's operations arc
on such a large scale tina. the Kirby
company decided that it must protect
itself by adopting some system Of
forestry. Large as its holdings are
and protected they must sooner or la
ter be exhausted.
Last winter Overton ". Price. as
sistant chief, and Thomas II. Sher
| rard, field assistant, of the Bureau Of
Forestry, made preliminary exami
nation of the lands at the company!
request and returned a report sta:
| ing the lines along when forestr,
might be practiced with profit in tn,
pany accepted the report and aske,
that a complete wrking plan b.
made.
The task of preparing this work
ing plan will begin November Is, an
will be in charge of Mr.. Sherrard
who is an expert on southern pines
Thirty men, established in thre
camps, will make the measurement
and gather the figures on which tn
plan is to be based.
From the above it would seem ths
!. there is one lumber company on cart
that realizes that another generatio
is to live after them. The same TO
estry commission should make hast
and visit some of the forests that Al
! being cleaned out In this section {
the world. With the immense amour
of timber that is being cut at the H
bart Mills people not an at :npt 4.
> provision is being made to rape
:, ish what they are depicting. It i
the same in this neighborhood. Sc
eral hundred acres OF second growt
, timber has been absolutely RUNE
. Not q vestage has remained whe
the contractors cleaned the groun
= and some of the timber cut was I
= larger than a mans arm, making on
q one stick Of fire wood in the COZ
II When the Legislature meets, pl
n per laws should be framed regul,
ing the cutting of timber and q Il
4 est inspector provided for. It W
r. pay the State hundred f)id for l
y. money invested, and be the means
protecting the farmers water she
Half of the trouble with shortage
20 water is caused by the destruction
i. the timber, and the sooner the far
~ er helps himself by insisting on la
"a regulating the cutting of timber Il
much sooner will he put money in
20 jeans. It's a downright outrage
~ way timber has been cut In this 8
al ton, and it will be even worse IL
~ laws are made to regulate it.
Tho Rand HnnNnrf