Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-01
OPPOSED TO GERMAN PLAN.
Maine Timbcnnan Says Forests Are In
Need OF Conservation.

w. Il. Jeamnot,; who Tor % years, has
been prominent In thu development OF
the commercial end of the timber lands
OF Maine and Oregon, and who Is heav-
lily interested in timber lands in both
those states and in the southern states,
expressed himself this morning to the
effect, that, although he would be In
jursd personally by the measure he was
thoroughly confident of the need OF gem
eral forest and timber conservationfla laws
as Informally suggested by Senator Reed zee,
OF German forestry methods.
not. II can see that such laws would,
restrict and limit my rights over my
own property, l believe that unless re-
foresting Is made a law, the lite OF the
will be very. short. The timbermen OF
Maine alone are cutting 10000 900 board
feet of timber per year. me Maine pine
gave out years ago. but there Us still
n great quantity OF spruce remaining.
up to two years ago the tim6erInen
of the east had optionally taken means
the last two years they have not done
so to any great extent. And they are
even cutting timber less than 4 inches
pgo 5the smallest diameter they cut
was Ii inches. AS. we understand. the
German methods which foresters arc at
conditions chin Of this country, tho alpha
and omega of tho system! is to plant
the seed of a Young tree for everyslarges
tree that Is cut and therefore never al
lowing tho forests to become smaller than
their present size, and to made 1t law,
with a penalty, for the owner. of timber
lands to see that me 10 dsnosad i ~ y
some other way. thereby giving the for
est fires the least possible medium
through which to travel.
This law, however, would If enacted,
hit the small timbermnn much mora
severely than 1t would the large timber
men The big; long established timber
cry tree they plant will be In a given
number Of years source OF profit 70
them. But not so with the man VINO
comes into Oregon, say, with enough mon
ely to buy 1000 acres Of timberland and
put up mill. He cannot wait for tho
small trees 70, grow. yet he must slls-
the small trees. They mean no profit
to him, but they decidedly do mean n
great profit to the moneyed corporations,
.Nrhe timber Citation Is. however. more
of an agitation than a reality for the
reason, that, should the federal gov
the proposition until all the forests are
gone. or at least until the industry Is
ruined, then there would still be sufs
Canada could be drawn on for another
cycle in the discussion,
"of course, It goes without saving that
the people ut large would necessarily
pay for the reforesting in the advanced
price they would pay for timber.
"In my opinion the German plan would
not answer the requirements of the
United States as 1t stands, but could be
modified to meet our conditions.
when I took up the business 20 years
ago the cutters did not use saws. and
by chopping the trees lost at least two
feet at the base of the tree They were
also In the habit of leaving the top IL.
they were filled with knots The saw
came IN very slowly, but is now used
universally.
Mr.. Jeamnot Is stopping at tho Ken
until December when lie will return to
Portland, Me.