Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-02-10
THE STATE FORESTRY BILL.
Newark Evening News }

terpst in pranricaI forestry, and there
is no reason why the work should nct
in fu'ure yea's become a snutce OF
large r4venue. Tire time is ripe foI
int Il gem leg station on this subject,
and, therefore. Assemblyman For
dVce's hill. introduced IN the lev isla
t re on Tues iav. is moasrre thai
shouli be verv :. s.riously and verV
carefully lusi ier9d Il provides for
the estah ishm mt of forest park reser
vations by the sta p, IN Ter he sup +
vision of B ,ard Of For-s' Park com
nissiouers appointed hv tn g werner,
the go ern T aud the state geoIOgis' to
no ex-officio memb rs of the commits
sion
Tha bnart will have, und'r this
bill. p1wer to acq nir' b. gift pnr-
asa or condemnation the wa tie
lands and dpnuded hills upon which
imhtr used 20 grow, and TO set OUT
trees, cara fer them and manage
t"tre ser ations aud the young fnr-sts
thereon The commi. .sioner1 are to
serve withou' compensation, hut are
70 ba al owed the servicts of satr-
tarv. The bi | is drawn npon the lrne
uggosrtd d " G ", rntr Stokes in his
in"ugur,l addr sS, in which he showed
hat thousands of acres of land IN New
7. rsAv, "rt of it bru.h Land, part of
it abandoned and vast, and all f it
nnsigh'ly. sara capable Of growing
irrss that would beautify the lanh-
cape, ntf, ri atIrtc'ive drirewa's
FIR isr places If r-trea'ion for the
we'll and health res rts FIR the sick
md be sUurco of inc0me to our com
monwealth. "
Such vase land ceeh not cost TIN
state rye amount of money. l. j.
now uselt SIS aud uni rofitahle muoi
f it couli be acquiIei, as the governor
ls,ys for dollar mn acre aud in som
cases for the accrued tax-s alone. The
sta Board of G olrgioal Snrv' Y
could take chng4 of il for tile pres NJ
Al hopt much extra expense hnd Ihe
game wardens could act rs fig wal
ens II e farmers and other o%nt RS OF
nuch of his land wunld he glad c
have the state take 1t and improve il
slcne it would save them much ex
psnse, and the p &C ssps of iefhrt $
log would tend o intrease the valn' 5
1f their own adj cent lands.
There is certainly good reason t.
nlie,e, in the fict the conclusion is
fmced rpm even in thu most casual
student of forestry, Il at in tuna tn
state will be dep-nnent upon its culu
Vated f. res fnr lt'ge p opnr ION OF
/ retenup. R f-renca has pr-vlous-
| " been made 10 the fact Ih,t he stat
forests in Europe provide incom
eaching from seventy cents to $3 sc
an acre; not by destroying the 'imhtI
but by cutting out opl9 what is usefn'
aud cart fully pre.ervin2 wnat is ltf
for farther grrw,h and f1tore use
Iu the little kingdom cf S xnnv rh'
forest revenu, i.neuly $1,000 900 II
VeaI.
II this sta'e does not desire to Re
come naked # rests, 10 have il
Sel!s and water cout s-s dried IN, its
and.cape di>fiaureh and irs agIicul.
ural inrer 5 seriously endangered,
it will heed the governors sngges.
tions and enact intO l,w the prOvi-
lions of the Fordyoe bill or of ont
framed on slmil,r lines From the
ne OF the t. Prof. ssnr Cluk o he
mesenr day the ntcessuirs and ah-
van'ages of intel igenr scirntifo for.
estry ave been urged upon Nv
jersey buu The leg slarors have h. en-
impressed with much less iup0rt tan
matters and have left practically
everything Of This kind to private in-
terest and enterprise. The little ex-
pertinent in Brrgen county, conducted
revenue rf five per cent. some S25, 0OO
worth of timber has been cat, yet tie
forest is worth more Than when the
experiment.. b gan Many other states,
far better off tIan New Jersey in the
way of forests, have created forestry Y
commissions and are already prevent.
ing tile Unnecessary waste and dts
truction of their timber lands, 1t is
late for New Jersty to begin This
worK. but not too late. No better use
cou be made of q reasonable p'opor-
lion of the states surplus millions
than in acquiring forest reservstlons
and providing for future revenues
therefrom.