Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-02-11
PRACTICAL FORESTRY PLANS.

PRACTICAL FORESTRY PLANS.
Government Department and the
Weyerhaes,ser Syndicate Enter into
an Agreement for Handling Forest
Lands.
Washington, Feb. 11.-Mr. Freder-
lex Weyerhaeuser, president OF the
Weyerhaeuser Timber company, has
signed an agreement with the Bureau
of Forestry by which the bureau
agrees to prepare working plans for
the conservative management Of about
100000 acres of the company's tim
Der lands in Washington. BY the
agreement, copy of which is here
with given, the eyerhaeuser CON-
pany agrees to defray the living and
travelling expenses of agents of the
bureau engaged in the work.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany has also requested that the
bureau of forestry prepare working
plans for its enormous timber land
holdings in Washington and Idaho.
The timber lands of the Weyer-
haeuser and the Northern Pacific CON-
panies are the most extensive private
~ owned tracts of land for which the
bureau Of forestry has ever been
asked to prepare working plans. The
field work will begin next summer
How long it will continue before fig
ures enough are secured on which to
base plans intelligently it is impossi-
bic at present to state. The task OF
putting all these lands under careful
management is Of great magnitude
and only one familiar with the nature
of the forests of the Northwest can
appreciate it's difficulties. But great
as these difficulties are, the importance
and value Of the work, once accom-
plished, far outweigh them. It is
another proof of the profound interest
and confidence which the West has
come to feel in the practical results
Of forestry that the two greatest land
holding companies of the Pacific coas,
and Rocky Mountain States, the one
representative of the lumber, the other
of the railroad interests Of that coun.
try, should have called on the bureau
Of forestry for expert advice in manag-
ing their lama The main timber sup.
ply of the United States is contained
in the Northwest states, and the great
advances which forestry has made in
that part of the country must be re-
garded everywhere as if general
benefit.
In a letter TO the chief of the bureau
Of forestry, Mr.. Howard Elliott, presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific Railway
writes these significant words:
"The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany is large holder Of timber lands
in the Northwestern states. which are
now being logged from in more or less
irregular methods.
Realizing the increasing scarcity Of
timber, and the probability of a more
economical use of forest tracts which
We have, and understanding that your
foresters lend assistance to landhold-
ers in the way Of making surveys and
plans for economical forest manage
ment, would ask whether it would be
possible for the bureau of forestry to
make surveys and plans for this com.
pany, looking toward the forest man.
agement of its tracts"
The work of the Weyerhaeuser Tim.
Der company is not the first undertake
en- by the bureau for that concern
Last summer a party of foresters made
study Of the Norway pine on the
cOmpany's lands near Cloquet, Mimi
an a working plan for these lands is
now in preparation.
The following is the text of the
agreement under which the bureau Of
forestry is to prepare working plans
for the Weyerhaeuser company:
The Department of Agriculture oil
the United States, and Weyerhaeuse,
Timber Company of st. Paul, county
Of Ramsey, state of Minnesota, mutu.
ally agree together as follows: =.
1. The Department Of Agriculture
in pursuance Of investigations in for.
estry, and in order to disseminate q
knowledge Of improved ways of hand.
ling forest lands, shall, after personal
study on the ground by its agent O,
agents, prepare a plan for harvesting
the forest crop and reproducing the
forest on the land Of the said Weyer.
haeuser Timber company, situated
described as follows: 100000 acres
more or less. state If wasa,in pton