The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-09-02

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country. figuring on the immense eN-
mansion of trade which is bound 10 |
come within the next thirty or forty |
years. have organized what system
calls tomorrow departments" and
are taking steps to safeguard against
a failure In material, in supplies, IN
facilities.
For example, the Pennsylvania
Railroad consumes more than 1000
600 wooden railroad ties year. All
railroads together consume 10000
OOO-one-twelfth of the sawed tim
Der IN the country Analysis deter
mined the necessity of creating a new
source that would afford the supply a
generation from now.
The Pennsylvania Railroad created
therefore a tomorrow department
a department Of forestry, The rail-
road has planted 2,25O,000 trees in
the State Of Pennsylvania. In the
nursery at Hollidaysburg are 100000
trees that are ready to be transplant
ed this year. near Altoona the COM
pany owns $4,000 acres of forestry
land and many thousands elsewhere,
| Here is an expenditure which must
be repeated every year for genera
lions before first returns come in, but
II Is good business policy; present
values depend upon future prospects.
other roads. and other industries
have established similar tomorrow
departments, for timber Is the raw
material in numbering, in paper, in
woodworking.
The International Paper Company
owns or controls 100000 acres Of
forest land in Canada. II has timber
lands in New England and New York.
in Vermont old and worn out farms
with young spruce upon them have
been bought, with no returns avail
able for twenty years.
More than this the tomorrow de-
| partments must see to it that present
consumption is most economical. In
place OF the old policy of eXtermina-
ton cutting Is most scientific. Smaller
| spruce trees are left standing, as we'll
as the woods not suitable for paper
mailing This Will then furnish the
cutting for the next generation.
Paper mills all over the country are
coming TO realize this necessity of
| buying insurance for the future by
assuring their timber supply, and so
with chemical concerns. The Amer
lean Agricultural Chemical Company
controls 1000 acres of phosphate
lands in Florida and like possessions
| elsewhere,
Chemical capital is invested in nj
trate beds Of Chile, property which
may not be touched for half a life
time, The lumber industries are pre-
empung the available supply of for
est, and, more significant, are plant
ing rubber trees-during the last two
years more than for the two decades
previous.
In Mexican County of Pennsylvania
Is virgin forest seven miles square
untouched amid denuded country
one OF the hemlock properties of
leather company; and many more like
concerns are learning from this eX-
ample the necessity of protecting the
future of their bark supply.
Foresight for tomorrow is not con-
fined entirely 70 the big industries
An Illinois brick company, for in
stance, has acquired a bank Of clay
three miles long, sufficient to last
hundred years. Even though good
locations seem unlimited to-day, to-
morrow this company thinks they
may be rare.
Except as to protecting his mar
kets the manufacturer operating on q
small basis may not have the re-
sources 70 assure himself of the safe
guards for tomorrow, but hundreds
OF smaller manufacturers are doing
this by peration--through their
t trade associations.
The National Hickory Association.
for instance, is aiming to protect the
I tomorrow Of every one of its mem.
I bers by three lines Of activity. It has
statistical bureau which gives in,
$ formation as to the most economical
points for timber operation and
l makes recommendation for assurip,
g continuance of supply. Its inspec
d ton bureau is investigating the pos
sibilities Of new varieties of wood
and of less expensive woods for tn
same purposes. The by-product bu
y reau is making studies and recon
}. mendations in the working up Of tn
product.
Many of the railroads have bough
I, their fuel supplies half centur
.e ahead. A few iron and steel indul
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