Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-17
MANY CLUB WOMEN
Attended the Lecture Given al the Circuit
 Court Room Friday Night by Enos A.
 Mills, the Rocky Mountain Gude... Spoke to School Pupils in Afternoon.

A large audience, including num- Der of prominent club women of this city, greeted Enos A. Mills. the moun- tain guide from Colorado, who came to this city in the interest of the For est Service of the Department of Agri-' culture of the United States govern ment and who lectured at the Cir cult court room Friday night. MT Mills spoke on "Forestry,'' and in the afternoon he made an address at the Pine Bluff High School, his subject to the Protection of Forest Trees" He was enthusiastically received by the pupils and made a favorable impress sion both afternoon and evening.
 During his stay in the city Mr. Mills was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. w, Crawford. It was his first visit to Pine Bluff. While with some friends Friday night MT. Mills recalled the fact that the youngest person he ever accompanied to the top of Longs Peak in Estes Park, Colorado, was Hattie Peters, little Pine Bluff girl who visited the Western country with Pin9 Bluff friends several summers ago.
 MT. Mills in his lecture stated that as many as 400 insects were known to infest the oak tree and if it were not for the birds the beautiful oak would be killed and made useless in it's in fancy.
 Mr. Mills advocated the creation of state forest reserve and the ap- pointment of a state forester, with a number of deputies to look after the protection of the trees of the state. He spoke in an entertaining and in- structive manner of the forestry re- serves conducted by the government and of the conditions existing in this and foreign countries in regard to the forests. He advocated the establish ment and maintenance of a forest rel serve in every state.
 He told of the advantages to the country at large from the preservation of forests.
 One of the uses of the forest" he said, lis to maintain growing eli mate The forest checks the hot and cold waves which sweep over the country from time to time and equal izes the climate"
 Forests Prevent Disastrous Floods.
 He said that it had been learned that on forest hillsides four-fifths of the water which falls soaks into the ground instead of running dirActly into the valley and increasing the streams and so forming floods. The water which soaks into the ground finds it's way to the rivers slowly and thus preserves medium amount of water in the rivers. Where there are no forests the water immediately runs into the rivers and many of the floods that are so destructive to property are caused in this way.
 All floods are formed" said the speaker, "on treeless hillsides. The flood damage along the Mississippi riv- CT has been growing greater for the past 50 years because of the cutting away and burning of the trees.
 ''In addition the water from rains which swells the rivers, on hillsides where there are no trees the snow melts and runs into the rivers very rapidly, whereas, where there trees the snow melts slowly and the resElt- ant water sipes into the soil."
 Another advantage arising from trees on the hillsides which the speaker mentioned is that the trees keep the soil from washing away and filling up what would otherwise be deep waterways. He said, too, that trees are advantageous from the standpoint of health, as they constant iy take up the poisonous gases from the atmosphere and give off oxygen, The trees also filter the dust out of the atmosphere.
 States Forests Wnl Soon Re Ex.
 hausted.
 The chief reason the speaker gave for the practice of forestry, however, was that it would pay. He stated that at the present rate, if the cutting and burning of timber in this state con- tlnue to increase, as it has done in the past, the forests of the state will be exhausted in. 15 or 20 years. The