The Ely miner., 1907-02-08
QE1WZZDED ALSZDES

Man tears down ruthlessly for the
needs of to-day and lets the needs OF
the morrow take care of themselves
Blindly 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
true in the White mountains, where
effort is now being put forth to save
what remains of the forests there,
With no regard to their aesthetic,
health giving or economic value be.
yond that of the wood in the rees,
they are being cut down and dragged
off from the slopes of the proud Presi,
Dental Range. Some of the hills have
been shaved almost as smooth as a
youths cheek, and there is nothing to
prevent the devastation of the sides OF
the very monarch of them all, If one
may apply that title to the mountain
named for the leader in the historic
struggle against monarchs. The lar
ger part of Mount Washington is
owned by private individuals, having
full power, if they wish, to dispose OF
he 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
been threatened.
The wall of the lover of the White
mountains was voiced recently by DR..
Edward Everett Hale. "These latter
days." he wrote, "are years of mourn
ing for us who love New Hampshire,
because this new business of paper
pulp 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 its time came it
was cut down in the winter, was
hauled on the snow to the largest
stream within range and floated down
to the ocean. l think it could be
shown that in all the great sea fights
in which the English, French, Spanish
or American navies were engaged be-
tween 1776 and 1890 the spars of all
the vessels were from the New Hamp-
shire forests. So other shipbuilders
cut logs and floated them down if they
were big enough for spars or wide
enough for boards, but the smaller
trees were left
Not for the good they may do now,
But will do when they're grown up.
So that the mountains were still green
and so the forests still grew into
cathedral aisles. And with every
summer the wilderness was alive with
glories for which there is no com
parison.
Then, alas! Satan came walking
up and down. And he devised meth
DDS 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 its 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
everything. If you leave a few
sumach bushes or blackberry vines,
it 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 AK 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 SUBMITS. The state has
surveyed the region carefully, and a
fit plan has been prepared. Uncle
Sam must acquire so square miles, be
the same more or less, and put 1t in
charge of his foresters. And then my
children's children's children shall
see the greatgrandchildren of the
pines that saw go 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 for
the twenty-frst century"
1t 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 mountains
are of greater financial value than is
generally supposed. Ono is apt to
think Of the Switzerland of America"