Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-12
WISCONSIN GETS
j. s. LABORATORY
SECRETARY WILSON DECIDES TO
LOCATE FORESTRY STATION
AT MADISON.
BADGER OFFER THE BEST.
Forester Pinchot Recommends Wisconsin
University on Account of Cen
trail Location.
BADGER OFFER THE BEST
PULP MANUFACTURERS BENEFIT

WASHINGTON. D. c., March g.
Especial 1.-The governments new forest
products laboratory will be located at
the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
In naming Wisconsin Friday Clifford
Pinchot, chief of the United States for
est service, said:
Il have had few decisions to make
which were so difficult or which have
had such prolonged and careful consid-
GRAFTON as the decision as to which OF
the offers for cooperation in establish
ing and maintaining a forest product
laboratory l should recommend for ac-
ceptance by the secretary of agricul-
ture."
Combine All Work.
The establishment of the laboratory
means the concentration of all lines of
experimental investigation of the gov
eminent looking to the closer and better
utilization of timber and the checking of
wood waste. Forest service laboratories
for timber test work at Yale and Pur-
due universities and the governments
wood pulp and wood chemistry labora-
tory in this city will be consolidated and
transferred to Madison as soon as prac-
ticable. A force of fifteen to twenty tim
Der test engineers, experts in wood pres
ervation and wood pulp manufacture
and wood distillation will have charge
of the work carried on.
Wisconsin's Offer Best.
The laboratory will have an equiva-
lent value of not less than $4,000. The
university will furnish the building, light,
heat and power and in return advanced
students will have the use of laboratory
for special work in related lines.
In announcing the decision TO the
president of the university, which made
offers, Chief Forester Pinchot said:
After the generous proposition of the
various institutions which were made
were all received and considered, those
of the Universities of Michigan, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin were seen to be most
advantageous. These three were studied
and compared in every useful way, we
could devise, and at last it was seen
that all things considered, the PROPOSE
ton of University of Wisconsin should
be accepted.
'"The proposition of three universities
as to buildings and equipments were
substantially equal. In other directions
also there was little to choose, while in
still others the differences were marked.
1t would serve no good purpose to set
forth the specific details upon which the
choice rests On the contrary such a
course might lead to unfortunate discus
sion of relative merits leading to no
conclusion.
Why Wisconsin Was Chosen.
81 have therefore preferred simply to
state that among the many factors con-
sidered the following were necessarily
given special weight:
Il. Building site and equipment of
light. heat and power.
Courses of instruction in forestry,
agriculture, engineering and the general
sciences.
General accessibility to the forest re-
gions of the east central valley and the
south and to the industries most con-
cerned with the work of the laboratory
and to the officers of the forest service
on inspection.
"Practical reasons. especially those Yin
connection with professional and indus
trial organization. 80
Relation of state and federal policies
affecting the conservation of natural re-
sources"