Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-26
MEETING OF THE LuMBERMEN.
To be Held in Milwaukee on the I'd
Day of February.

At meeting of the lumbermen, land
and timber owners of the Wisconsin
valley, held in Wausau, on the 9th of
January, at the Wausau club house,
committee was appointed to cali
meeting of the lumbermen, land and
timber owners of Wisconsin, and the
following gentlemen composed such
committee
c. S. Curtis, Ingram Lbr. Co; Walter
Alexander. Alexander Stewart Lbr. Co.;
w. IL. Rissell, YawkeyBissell Lbr. Co.:
w. c. Laadon, Barker & Stewart Lbr.
Co, g. Heinemann, B. Heinemann Lbr.
20. E. A. Goodng, Gooding 4 Mylrea
Lbr. Co.
Accordingly, a meeting has been
called at the Pfister hotel; Milwaukee,
Immediately following the Northwest
eln Hemlock Manufacturers associa,
ton on Feb. I'd, to meet E. M. Griffith,
state forester, to discuss bill which
will be introduced into the legislature
this winter for the burning of slash.
The bill which will be presented and
discussed at the meeting is as follows
A BILL
To PROVIDE FOR THE BURNING OF SLASH
INGS, LIMBS. TOPS AND REFUSE ON ANY
LANDS WITHIN CERTAIN COUNTIES OF
WISCONSIN.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, repre-
sented IN senate and assembly, do enact as
follo,cs:
SEC l. Any person who shall cut,
or cause to be cut, any logs, bolts, pulp
wood, ties, poles, posts, or other forest
products, in any .. the counties deslg-
mated in section Oh this act, shall pile
the tops and refuse as the cutting pro-
ceeds, and SHALL within one year from
such cutting and telling, burn all such
piles of refuse and tops, and in such
burning all reasonable care shall be
taken not to damage standing timber or
adjoining property The term burn
iDg'' shall be construed to mean the
destruction by fire of so much of such
slashiDgs as would become easily COM
bustible material and dangerous in
event they were not so destroyed, but
no burning shall be done during
I'll NCdLACts
SEC. 2. ANY person who violates any
of the provisions in regard to the burn
ing of slashings, refuse, etc, shall be
guilty of misdemeanor and shall, on
conviction therefor, be punished by a
fine of not less than fifty 900 cents nor
more than two dollars (S2 00) per thou
sand feet, log scale for all timber; not
less than twenty-five (25) cents, nor
more than one dollar (S1.00) per cord
for all bolts, rgiiwood, cordwood or
bark; and rot less than ten (l0) per
cent. nor more than fifty 800 per cent
of the full cash value of other forest
products cut and removed from such
land.
SEC 3 Ia case any person fails to
properly pile and burn the tops and
refuse, the state board of forestry may,
in its discretion, cause the same to be
done, and the expense thereof shall be
a lien on the timber or other forest
product cut from the land on which the
tops or refuse are situated or cut, and
shall also be lien upon the land itself.
Proceedings for the enforcement of
such lien shall be instituted by the dis
trict attorney OF the county in which the
cutting was done, at the request OF the
state board of forestry and IN the name
of the state of Wisconsin as claimant
and costs shall be recovered in the usual
manner. The claim for any lien shall
be filed by the state fire warden, or
under his direction by any of his assist
ants, inspectors, assistant Inspectors,
patrol or fire wardens in>the district in
which the expense occurred in the office
of the clerk of the district court, in
the county in which the claim arose.
Sec. 4. This act shall apply to tae
cutting of all timber or other forest
products in the counties of