Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-29
STATE HOUSE.
Land Agent Ring on the Sea-
sons numbering Outlook.
He Finds Usual Numbers Of Nom
Resident Hunters in the Woods.
Lumbermen Urged to Comply with the
State Smallpox Regulations.

State Land Agent Ring was at his
Office, yesterday, having just returned
from a trip to Letter Z Plantation in
Aroostools county. There are many
squatters on the school lots of this
plantation, and the Legislature, at the
last session, authorized the land agent
II sell the lots to the actual settlers
thereon. This, Mr.. Ring intends to do
is soon as practicable, ana the squat
ters will enter into full ownership of the
land they occupy. This policy of the
State is one just to all parties, and GER
tainly deserves commentator.
Being asked as TO the present outlook
for numbering operations, Mr.. Ring
said. Il consider the prospect for a
,argo supply of spruce lumber for the
coming season to he very good. BY this
] do not mean that there will be any
thing like an over stock, for with the
Increased facilities for the consumption
of spruce, there is no danger in this
direction. But the past two seasons
nave been made very unfavorable to the
lumbcrmen by the disappearance of the
snow, early in March, thereby render
ing it impossible to get the logs out of
the yards to the rivers. AS a result
many millions of feet have been left
each year. and there is now great
accumulation in the yards, which vii
be hauled the coming winter and it is
to be hoped that the snow will last a.
long as may be needed"
Mr.. Ring says that UP to the present
time there have been but few cases of
smallpox in the lumber camps, but that
it would he surprising if the lumbermen
|diC not nave trouble from this cause
during the winter. All the larger con-
Germs are sending physicians into the
woods to vaccinate their men. Most of
the smaller concerns, however, are pay
ing little or no attention to the laws and
the orders of the State Board of Health
in regard to vaccination. Mr. Ring
emphatieally states that the law is a
good one and should be enforced This
utterance from a man who is as fami-
liar with the conditions in lumbe,
camps and in Northern Maine generally
as Mr.. Ring, is significant.
One feature in numbering operations
which is especially gratifying to Mr.
Ring is the care used by nearly all i'm
portant lumber operators in cutting
their logs. Every concern of any i'm
portance is saving down its trees and
taking from them all wood suitable for
pulp or lumber. More care is also be-
ing used in preventing the destruction
of the young growth. The Importance
of such precautions, especially those o.
the last instance. can hardly be over
estimated, for upon the care of the
young growth timber depends the for
est of the future.
Mr. Ring states that in his travels all
over the Northern part of Maine he has
been unable to see any diminution Of
the number of nonresident hunters
from any of the states, except Ohio and
Indiana. Fortunately for the State of
Maine" says Mr.. Ring, the license law
is preventing the parties of market
hunters and game hogs from some OF
the Western states from hunting our
game for profit. They are conspicuous
for their absence, this year, and every
body is glad of it. But the genuine
sportsmen who have been coming here
from the West are here this season, and
are as heartily welcomed as ever and
| can say that l have talked with no
nonresident sportsman who was not
well satisfied with the present license
laws of the State of Maine