Warren sheaf., 1903-07-30
WASTE n iwAsHINGroN.

WICKED WASTE IN WASHINGTON.
short time since we questi tioned3
whether there was now in-operation In
this country any Of the old wasteful
logging and burning business incident
to the clearing up of timber land. Il
seems that there is. for a letter from
Washington says that hundreds cf men
have taken hOmesteads up in the noun.
tains, where the giant frs and cedar,
grow, trees 25O feet high, from four to
six feet In diameter and containing
from 5000 to 10000 feet OF lumber,
board measure. At present there is no
method whereby these giant logs can
be got to market or made available for
lumber, so the homesteader bores two
inch hole horizontally to the heart of
the tree and another. at an angle Of fer
ty-fye degrees from above to intersect
It. He then fills the hole with dry grass
and sets fire to it. In about four days;
the tree will burn OFF SO that it will
fall. The same process is repeated to
cut the trunk into ten or fifteen foct
logs, which are then piled up and Who'll.
" burned. The timber thus destroyed
is worth more than all the crops which
will ever be raised upon the land. these.
splendid trees being worth over $1CO
each If only there was some way in
which to get the lumber to a railroad
or navigable water. The Justification
for this wanton waste of the finest for.
est product in all the wide world IS
found only in the fact that the home
steader must have piece of cleared
land upon which to raise some crop to
enable him to live. 1t would be far bet
ter for him and the country could he
get his living somewhere else and leave
these forests alone until such time as
modern methods and machinery could
clear the land without such an awful
waste. We also noted in a recent trip
down south that in east Texas there
was in the timbered sections much Of
the old waste in the clearing up Of the.
land for. crops. The day will soon be
here when a tree hundred years old
will represent good deal of money.
THE BOY AND HIS BANK ACCOUNT.
We know Of twelve-year-old boy
who has saved up and has to his credit
in the bank the sum of $50. While the
boy is not very big and the sum of
money not large, yet the combination
the boy and the bank account-a affords
an interesting study, as while the boy
is nursing the bank account the saw
ings are very sharply and clearly in
fuencing the boys character; the boy
already has learned the value of
dollar-a big thing for a boy to know
He is fast learning that money itself
will work and grow if only given half
a chance. The possession of this little
nest egg makes this boy willing to i'm
prove the spare time and earn little
money to add to it and makes him
chary of spending money for foolish
things, both matters in the line of
valuable training for successful
business man. 1t may be said that
with many boys this course would re-
suit in making them parsimonious and
mean, give them an inordinate love for
money, point which we think is not
well taken. for we will always have
ten young men who will spend every
dollar they earn where we will have
one of these tight fisted fellows. We
would by all means teach the boys to
save as valuable part of their bust
ness training and education.
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