Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-06
FORESTRY in CITIES
IoTTUMWANs TAKE BUT LITTLE
INTEREST in FOREST PRES.
ERvATIoN.
Public School Pupils Plant Trees on Ar.
Dor Day-Property Owners Have
Few Shade Trees-Subject Has
Made Great Advance in Past Year.

movement for the preservation of the
forests of the country. Once year on
Arbor day the pupils Of the public
schools plant trees in the lots sur
rounding the school houses. From
time to time the owners of residence
property plant trees for the purpose of
ornam enting their lawns and providing
a little shade, but farther than this tree
planting is given but little attention by
Ottumwans and residents of Wapello
county. =
All this would be entirely different
were Ottumwa situated on the Missis
sippi river. Being a live town as it is,
a large part of its people would be in
terested financially in the lumber bust
ness. This is the case in practically
every live river town along the banks
of the great central waterway Forest
preservation is to them g vital matter
and they take lively interest in all
that pertains to it.
A Year of Progress.
No previous year has seen such pro-
gress in forestry as the last. During
this time public sentiment in favor of
forestry became more marked, and
practical forest work in the woods was
better in quality and greater in amount
than ever before. But great though
the progress was in comparison with
other years, actually it was small. The
saving of the forest by wise use is but
| little nearer than it was a year ago.
except for the wider spread of a knowl-
edge of the nature and objects of for
estry. The means available are yet
too feeble to make much impression
on the gigantic task OF preventing the
destruction of the lumber industry, the
fourth among the great industries of
the United States, and of using con-
servatively the forests which supply
wood and conserve water for the use
of the nation. The interests which
these supplies serve and maintain are
SO vital that it can not be in question
whether they shall be preserved, but
only how it best can be done. The
present provisions are wholly INSULT
Gent.
The very rapid progress of the senti-
ment for forest preservation during
the last year has been nowhere more
conspicuous than in the western states.
The greater part of it may be traced
directly to the growing desire, ,fDr de-
lvelopment in irrigation which follow
ed the passage of the natimal reclama-
ton law. Except where Special inter
ests. complicate and obscure the issue,
1.-THE public opinion of the west has be
come unanimous in favor of forest
preservation for the protection of the
water supply, and practically so for the
perpetuation of the supply of timber.
People Understand.
The necessity for the creation of for
est reserves for their influence on the
stream flow and timber supply is be.
ing better understood and is steadily
receiving greater support where once
there was opposition to the policy
The people of the west have not only
come to understand that existing for.
ests must be preserved if irrigation Is
to maintain it's continued development
Ibut they are also realizing the i'm
portance of reserving lands once GOV,
cred with forest, but now denuded
and the essential necessity that the
government should reclothe them with
trees.
Decidedly the most important deve1
opment of the year in forestry has been
the awakening of the great lumber in
terests to the necessity for practica
forestry and the hearty cooperation
they have begun to t;ive to .he efforts
of the government for forest perpetual
ton At the convention of the Nation
al Lumber Manufacturers association
held ~ Washington, more attention
was given to forest..w than to any 9th
er subject. The convention expressed
itself in favor Of the Derpetua:ion Ct
forests by wise use. and gave evi
dence of it's good will by visiting the
bureau of forestry in body. Mem
bers of the association have since
that time began hearty cooperation
with the bureau with the object of for
est preservation, and it may fairly b.
said that forestry has become liv'
issue in the minds of the great timbe
land holders of the United States.
Only less important is the recen
tendency Of the railroads of the, United
States to consider the future of thei
timber supply and to take measures
for its perpetuation. Railroads ar,
among the greatest consumers of tim
Der the United States, and the pres
ervation or destruction Of vast areas o
forest will depend on the attitude the,
assume toward this question, which i
not less vital to them than to Qthe
users of wood.
S1Oo-Dr. e. Detchon's Anti-Diureti
may be worth to you more than $40
If you have a child who soils beddin
from incontinence of water durin
sleep. Cures old and young alike.
arrests the trouble at once. 81. Sol
: by W. w. Ennis, druggist, ottumwa. l;