Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

Forester of the Department of Agriculture.
forester of the United States, under the
Department of Agriculture, is the president
OF the executive committee and n director
OF the association. Mr.. Pinchot is regard
ed in a large measure as the man be-
hind the forestry movement in this coun-
try he having devoted much of his life
10 arousing interest in the preservation
and planting of trees in the United States.
The association has about $500 members.
s; The Purpose of the Congress.
The purpose of the Congress, as an
bounced in the official call. is ''to estab-
ish broader understanding of the forest
in its relation to the great industries de-
pending upon it; to advance the conserva-
tive use of the forest resources for both
the present and the future need of these
Industries; to stimulate and unite all efforts
to perpetuate the forest as a permanent re-
source of the nation
An exhaustive program IS being arranged.
which, 1t is said, will make the congress
by far the most notable event in the his
tory of American forestry.
The body will be thoroughly representa-
tive of the great Industrial interests which
are directly and intimately dependent for
their well-being upon the forests, as is
shown by the prominence of those who
have already notified Secretary Wilson of
their intention to attend. Among them are
the following presidents O. leading railroads:
J. j. Hill. Samuel Spencer, Howard Elliott,
sell Harding Marvin Hughitt, L. E. John
son and Colgate Hoyt.
Practically all the great railroads will be
represented by their presidents. vice presi-
dents, or chief engineers. Telegraph and
telephone companies will also have able
representatives present. The lumber inter-
ests will probably be more largely repre-
scented than any other. Each lumbermenS
association has the privilege of appointing
five delegates, and a long list is already on
file in the office of the secretary of the
committee of arrangements.
Among the prominent lumbermen who
will attend are: n. w. Mcleod president
National Lumber Manufacturing Associa-
ton; Fred Weyerhaeuser of ST. Paul, r. A.
Long president Southern Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association; and the following pres
idents of leading lumber companies: Gar
ret Schenck of New York. Col. George II.
Emerson of Hoquiam, Wash, and John L.
Kaul of Birmingham Ala. Most of the
lumber trade journals will be represented
by their editors.
Grazing interests will be represented by
a number of influential men from the west
ern states, among them +. j. Hagenbarth,
president of the National Live Stock Asso-
citation: Jesse NJ. Smith, president of the
Utah Wool Growers Association: II. A. Jas
tro. president of the Kern County (Cal)
Cattle Growers Association, and E. s.
Gosney. president of the Arizona Wool
Growers Association.
No less than eight supervisors of forest
reserves will be present to participate in
the discussions on the reserves. The mining
interests will be represented by such men
as John Hays Hammond and T. ]. Grier.
Among the governors who have expressed
their intention of coming are Gov Cum
minis of Iowa, Gov. Peabody of Colorado
of Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Missouri,
North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia. Maine
and Pennsylvania have already appointed
full lists of delegates. Delegates are prom
tSed from most of the remaining states,
The National Governments Interest.
The interest of the federal government in
the Congress is evidenced by the facts that
the President of the United States will de-
liver an address and receive the delegates.
that the Secretary of Agriculture will pre-
side and that the different government bu-
reaus especially concerned with the forests,
irrigation and the public lands will be fully
represented.
Problems affecting the forests and forest
lands well the great enterprises OF
mining and grazing in the west, are now
receiving national attention and the de-
alterations of the able men who Will at
tend the meeting will doubtless help to-
ward their solution. In addition it is ex-
pected that valuable suggestions for the
improvement of present regulations con-
corning numbering and irrigation, which are
interviewer so intimately with forestry, will
be a result of the meeting.
The first meeting of the congress will be
at noon January 2. to attend In a body the
Presidents New Year reception. The mem
bers have been invited to attend in a body.
BY special arrangement with Captain Baird
superintendent OF the State. War and Navy
building. the congress will meet in the
west corridor on the first floor of the Navy
Department section and march from there
to the White House at the time set for
their reception.
Four Business Sessions.
The four business days of this congress
are each divided into two sessions. morn
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