The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-21
GREAT PINE TRACT.
WORLDS GREATEST REsERvA-
TON LOCATED IN OREGON.
Forest Empire in Which It Is Murder
to Cut Tree-Stringent Reg
ulations Which Are En-
forced There.

The greatest forest of sugar pine on
the globe begins at klamath and extends
northward past the glittering peaks of
Mount Pitt, Diamond, Thielson. Scott
and the Three Sisters to the very foot
of jefferson, 200 miles to the north II
is a vast forest empire, ruled over by
the wild things Of the deep woods says
the Portland Oregonian. 1t embraces
territory over 1000 miles in extent
Think of it! AS large as the entire
state of Connecticut, one-half as large as
Massachusetts and three times as large
as the state of Rhode Island Five hun
dred square miles of this is protected by
the guarding hand of Uncle Sam, an
army of vigilant rangers patroling every
district of it during the summer months.
Past the Lake of the Woods in the
shadow of Mount Pitt, we followed the
Dead Indian road, driving deeper into
the land of everlasting greenness.
Above all is a protecting, impenetrable
canopy AS we march along silently,
there is but little change in the general
aspect. Sometimes the ground is matted
with underground, with manzanita,
cinnamon and chaparral; at other times
1T is as open as the tabled forests of Rob-
in Hood, with a carpet of green grass,
and the straight brown trunks bare OF
limbs for many feet up: again we pass
through frowning depts and over
ground strewn with dead leaves, twigs
and worm-eaten trunks and limbs OF
giants that had gone on before But al
ways and above all there is the primeval
woods, the deep shadows, unbroken save
by few filtered beams at MONDAY.
The giant trees of this great forest
tower 200 and 300 feet high and are ex-
celIed only by the famous redwoods OF
the Golden State. While the sugar and
yellow pine predominant, there are also
many frs. spruces, cedars digger"
pines, and on the higher attitudes the
somber black hemlocks In the quail
ties of lightness, durability and strength
it is superior to the celebrated and now
extinct white pine of the eastern
states. For finishing, sash, door and
box material sugar pine is unsurpassed.
On the borders of this great forest and in
the purveyed and open districts hum
1red mills buzz industriously, the prod
ucts of which reach north to Canada
and Alaska, south to Mexico and across
the Pacific and Atlantic to foreign lands.
Over 1000, 900 fruit boxes made of sugar
pine cut from the border of this forest
are manufactured each year for the or
ange orchards of southern California
alone.
At frequent intervals along the roads
and trails warning signs are posted con- /
spicuously, cautioning hunters or camp
ers against leaving camp fires burning or .
smoldering. Violators of the forest re-
serve rules are liable to fine of $3.50, and ,
Zach ranger, as government officer, has /
'ull power TO arrest. II is murder TO cut /
/ tree in this forest empire. Fallen
wood and broken boughs can be freely |
lsed, but no tree can be heved without
permit from the ranger Of the district
n which it is located. The purpose OF
crest preservation is, primarily, for the
,eneft Of future generations, and in set
ing aside the forests of the Upper /,
Rogue, Oregon, the government has
laced guarding hand over as valuable
belt Of timber as the world contains.
The French army administration is
an extensive automobile train
service, to be used as conveys The
rains are built after the designs OF Col.