The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-01-05
RAIL ROADS PLANT
FORESTS TO GROW
TIMBER FOR TIES
Vast Consumption Of
Wood by Transporta-
ton Companies.
EXPERIMENTS DOUBTFUL
Divergent Views Expressed
in Forest Congress by
Different Speakers.
EXPERIMENTS DOUBTFUL

This is Railroad Day" in the Forest
Congress After discussing numbering
and grazing interest yesterday, the Cor
estsrs' assembled this morning to hear
the speeches of great railroad officials
on ..Railroads in Relation to the For
ests.''
Clifford Pinchot. chief forester of the
Government, called the meeting to or
der, and requested Col. w. S. Harvey,
Pennsylvania, TO make the report OF
the board of directors of the American
Forestry Association, which met yester-
day. Colonel Harvey announced that it
had been decided to extend the privi-
leges and right of members to all - .e-
gates
DR.. Everett Edward Hale was called
to the platform to make a few remarks
iE favor of the White Mountain reserve.
Dr. Hale said be was not representing
any particular constituency. but was
here as the representative of the whole
New England section. He said that
when a boy he had slept out in the
White Mountains under pine trees which
were 800 years old; none of these now
stood-they had been hewed down by
inconsiderate manufacturers.
DR.. Hale's Resolution.
At the conclusion of his remarks he
presented che following resolution for a
national forest reservation in the White
Mountains:
In view of the destructive cutting in
various parts of the White Mountains,
and especially Of the operations now in
progress on the Presidential Range,
threatening the waterfiow in the princi-
pal rivers ia New England upon which
many cities depend both for manufac-
turing power and for drinking water,
and in view Of the ggeat waste of re-
sources resulting from the clean cutting
of the high sloIses thus losing the bene-
fits Of these forests for centuries, and in
view OF the dissertation of one of the
nations places of rest and recreation;
therefore be it
Resolved by the American Forest
Congress. That we earnestly urge the
Congress of the United States to pass
the bill now pending in the Senate and
the House for a national forest reserva-
ton in the White Mountains.
..And as the last remnants of prime
val forest are disappearing that we urge
action at this session.
This resolution was referred to the
committee ON resolutions
Information for Railroads.
Gen. Charles Henderson, former Sen
ator from Nebraska, and general so
licitor of the Chicago, Burlington an6
Quincy Railroad Company made the
first set speech of the day. Genera
Manderson spoke on the subject, .'Wha1
Information Is Most Urgently Needed
BY Railroads Regarding Timber Re
sources
On opening his speech General Man
derson paid a tribute to the founder O
Arbor Day The names of j. Sterlin:
Morton and James Wilson, he said
.are indissolubly linked, together in tn
annals of forestry development"
He went on TO show the needs Of tn
railroads as TO their timber resources
He said there was total railroad mile
age CT 2S6, ,252 miles. The amount o
trees needed to be felied to niaintail
this vast mileage is so enormous L
stagger belief and exhaust reasonabl
amount OF figures. Timber goes mainl,
into ties, bridges, station houses, roa4
crossings. rolling stock, and platforms.
General Henderson then took up tn
question of ties.
--The average number of ties to
mile of track is 1900, so that S58, 7S6, 90
have gone into the construction o
is ten years. He went on to show tha
renewed each year, making an annua
use of 80 $4,000 ties. These needs, h
said. demanded a iudicious preservation
Z of the forests. He said that the peo
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