The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-30
SAYS IT IS UNTRUE
ASSOCIATE FORESTER MAKES
CHARGE AGAINST M'HARG.
Pfuchot,s Assistant Declares Attack
BY Assistant Secretary of Conn
merce and Labor Ii Demofaliz-
ting to Public Service.

washington. Aug. 2S--"Untrus in all
its parts. both as to the existence OF
such facts and also as to their con-
cealment." Such was the response Of
Associate Forester Price. to the charge
made by Assistant Secretary McHarg.
Of the Department Of Commerce and
Labor, that the Forestry Bureau Is con-
cealing facts regarding the American
timber supply.
This characterization or Mr.. McHarg'a
assertions formed part OF general
statement in reply to Mr.. Price.
THAT this baseless charge should be
made by o public servant in nigh ONCE
is" said Mr.. Price, against the public
interest and demoralizing to the public
service. II Mr. McHarg's statement Is
true, he will In his own interest and
in the public interest establish It's
truth conciusively and at once. The
records of the Bureau OF the census
and of the Bureau of Corporations. he
can command without corporation, II
Mr.. McHarg's statement Is untrue.
through errors, he will IN his own In
terest and In the public interest, 80 state
and at once"
Declaring 1t to be "depiorable and
significant that the Assistant Secretary
of Commerce and Labor. II he be quot
ed correctly, should select this time CT
all others to make a statement which
impunes the integrity of the forest
service" Mr.. Price declared. that 1t
| IL against the sum Of human expert
ence, and is disproved not merely by
records here, but by those of two bu-
reaus of the department over Wnicn MF'
McHarg pesides"
Continuing. he said:
1--WE take from our forests each year
| not counting the loss by fire, three ana
a half times their yearly growth. We
| take 90 cubic feet per acre for each IL
cubic feet grown; we take ESQ cubic
feet per capita, while Germany uses 81
cubic feet and France rs cubic feet.
since 1890 forest fires have each year
| destroyed an average OF s50.000.0O0
worth of timber.
1.-THE young growth destroyed by
| fire Is worth far more than the mer-
| charitable timber burned. An average
OF only 320 feet OF lumber is used for
eacr 1000 feet that stood in the forest
| And year by year, through careless cut
| ting and fires we lower the capacity
of existing forests to produce their
like again, or totally destroy them.
! The condition of the worlds supply OF
timber. makes up dependent upon what
we produce. We send out of our coun-
try one and a half times as much tim
Der as we bring in. Except for finish
ing woods relatively Insignificant In
/
or go without"
Contrary to Mr.. McHarg's assertion
that logging is impossible under the
forestry regulations. Mr.. Price said:
1.-THE forest service Is selling yearly
from the National forests about $1,000
| 600 worth of mature timber This tim
her is purchased by lumbermen at the
market price, is logged under regula
lions of the foest service which pre-
| scribe that only designated trees be
| cut; that brush be disposed OF a.
a safeguard against forest nres and
that young growth be protected In log
| cling Within the past month applica
ton to purchase over 15u,00O.00O feet
hoard measure, have been received from
lumber men, many of whom are already
| purchasers of National forest timbers
all of whom are thoroughly familiar
with the method and way 1t must h'
cut
Mr.. Price also referred TO Mr.. Nc
LHarg's ridicule of the charge tina
there exists combinations to contro
water power sites, saying:
"rhe forest service Is deeply con
cerned in the growing concentration!
of water power. since within Nat!ona
forests are power sites. Inv part util
ized ana in part not utilized; with thu
regulation OF whose use IN the public
interest the forest service is charged
Mr. McHarg's statement in this con
nection Is directly at variance with thu
message OF President Roosevelt. of Jan
uary Is. 1909. to the House of Repre-
sentatives, vetoing a bill for the con
| struction of a dam across the JAIME!
| River in Stone County Mo-"