Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-12
: THE QE.NZ7DED HILL LcIDLr
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Man tears down ruthlessly for the Aeeds of to-day and lets the needs of the morrow take care of themselves. IBlindly all over the country men are destroying the forest growths only to awake to a realization later of the mistake that has been made. This is Itrue in the White mountains, where effort is now being put forth to save lwhat remains of the forests there. With no regard to their aesthetic, health giving or economic value be- lyond that of the wood in the rees, they are being cut down and dragged lo6 from the slopes of the proud Presi- ldential Range. Some of the hills have Ibeen shaved almost as smooth as a youth's cheek, and there is nothing to lprevent the devastation of the sides Of jthe very monarch of them all, if one lmay apply that title to the mountain named for the leader in the historic struggle against monarchs. The lar Iger part of Mount Washington is Eowned by private individuals, having Hull power, if they wish, to dispose Of lthe timber and make it as naked as was Adam before he had eaten of the apple. Indeed, the forests on the sides of the mountain have already lbeen threatened.
 The wall of the lover of the White mountains was voiced recently by Dr.. Io1a siThnSn 1attnr days" he wrote, .'are years of mourn ing for us who love New Hampshire, because this new business of paper lpulp is stripping off her magnificent forests. In old times King George |sent his surveyors around. and when they saw tree fit for his ships they marked it with the broad arrow of the navy, so when it's time came 1t was cut down in the winter. was hauled on the snow to the largest stream within range and floated down Ito the ocean. think it could be shown that in all the great sea fights fin which the English. French, Spanish or American nayies were engaged be- tween 1776 and 1790 the spars of all Ithe vessels were from the New Hamp- shire forests. So other shipbuilders lcut logs and foated them down if they lwere big enough for spars or wide enough for boards, but the smaller krees were left
 Not for the good they may do now,
 But will do when they're grown up. Iso that the mountains were still green and so the forests still grew into Icathedral aisles. And with every Isummer the wilderness was alive with lglories for which there is no com. iparison.
 "Then, alas! Satan came walking up and down. And he devised meth ods of making paper from wood pulp. Before him, when angels and arch angels presided over that business, paper was made of such rags as busy housewives minded to see the end of, and haply of older paper which had served it's turn. But now. alas! there is not tree in the forest, big or lit. tie, old or young. from which you cannot make paper. What follows is that you enter your forests with your axes in summer as you once did in winter. and you cut down virtually everything. If you leave a few sumach bushes or blackberry vines, 1t is because they are not worth the handling, they are so small. Big pines, little pines. big spruces. little spruces, big hemlocks. little hemlocks-all fall before the ax. All Is grist for Satan's mill.
 For which the remedy will come as soon as the congress of America makes a national park of the White mountain summits. The state has surveyed the region carefully, and a At plan has been prepared Uncle Sam must acquire 30 square miles, be the same more or less. and put it in charge of his foresters. And then my ehildren's children's children shall see the great-grandchildren of the pines that I saw 50 years ago in place of the sumach and other rubbish that the pulp creatures have left US to day. We ought to have done this years ago. but it Is not too late fol the twenty-first century"
 It truly has been said that paper may be the winding sheet of the brave forests which ornament the sides of the famous group of noun tains in northern New Hampshire.
 The forests of the White mountain, are of greater financial value than is generally supposed One is apt tC think of the -Suitzeriana of America