Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-07
Prof. Roy Marston Leaves
For Summers Work
ID Mapping Lands Of the Co.
burn and Haynes Estates.
Taken Together These Lands Com.
prise 10000 Acres.

Prof. Roy L. Marston left here on the
s.5o car Monday morning over the SOM
| erset Traction line to begin his sum
mer's field work. He took with him a
pig outfit of tents and Instruments He
mas contracted to map all the lands
of the Coburn estate and the estate of
the late j. Manchester Haynes, the two
largest timber land holdings by private
owners III the State. Together these
comprise about $4,000 acres. When
these arc finished Prof. Marston will
nave mapped and estimated over Co.,
oOO acres of land in Maine, which is
about 6 per cent. of the total area of
the cumberland in the State.
This is probably larger amount
than has been done by any other man
IN Maine. This work consists of a
geographical map showing elevations
IN 2O-foot contours after the manner
of the United States government maps,
division of the area into sections one
mile square with well marked bound
aries and corner posts, an estimate of
all the standing timber of all species
on each section, an estimate of the
growth per year. and the amounts
which may be cut every 10 years with
out cutting more than the annual
growth, and finally a plan for the cut
ting which will provide for the largest
permanent income from the land with
out injurinS' the principal The grow
ing feeling among lumbermen that
there is to be a. scarcity of timber if
the present methods are persisted in
has made the foreStcr'S services in
Maine almost indispensable.
There is probably no forester in this
country who by experience and train
ing is better equipped for the work
on spruce land in the northern woods
than is Mr.. MarstOn of this town. At
ter considerable experience in Maine
logging with his father, the late Hon.
Charles a. Marston, he was graduated
from the Yale School of Forestry. I'm
mediately upon graduation he was APP
pointed professor and made member
Of the faculty This position lie held
until the death of his father caused
his return to Skowhegan. His conncc-
ton with the United States forestry
service Of several years carried him to
all parts of this country and later
large consulting practice has familiar
lied him with numbering conditions in
Maine to a degree which few men pos
SeSS.
Mr.. M3rston believes that Maine Of
fers the best field for the forest ex-
pert in this country for the reason that
cumberland in this State reproduces it
self so well that it naturally responds
to forestry treatment more satisfac-
tOrily than in any other region, and
also for the reason that no other state
Il I,,,t I,,
Of the forest for its progress and pros
pcrity.
The men who joined Mr. Martson at
Jackman Monday are as follows:
Parker Foss, Fred G. Poolcr, Clair r.
Marston, Raymond Smith, Ernest
Haynes. Wallace Lewis, Harbert
Uomclow, Allie Pomclow, Ali" Pomc-
low and Peter Pomelow, all Of SHOW
hogan; Ralph Penney, l.. r. Pike, G.
A. Wakefield. w. w. Wright and $. Il.
Locke all of the University Of Maine;
Harold Weber and r. r. ainc Of Bow
doin College; Guy w. Lucas, II. II.
Tryon and l.. f. Freedman of the
Harvard Forestry school; Fritz
Brundage and Willard Springer of the
Yale School of Forestry, Percival
Cushman of Ellsworth, Stephen z.
Pepper and John Moore of Concord,
Mass, and Chester Ladd of the Croton
school. In addition to the above there
will be several woodsmen from jack
man join the party later Mr.. Marston
has had 65 applications from college
and forestry school students for posi-
tions in bis parties this season.
Mr.. Marston has just completed a re-
port of the damage to the timber Oh
Taunton and Raynham from the fires
Of last spring which were caused by
sparks from the locomotives on the
Canadian Pacific Railway. He has also
reported the damage from the same
fire on the lands of the NJ u. Shaw
Lumber Co. last fall r. r. Paine of
Winslow was in charge of the crew
counting the trees burned.
John Haskell, formerly engineer on
the Portland freight, died
at midnight at his home in Brunswick,
He was sick just four days with pneu
monia His age was about 30 years. A
widow and two children survive. At the
time of his death he was running be-
tween Lewiston and Brunswick
Among the Pennington people in