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over TO have beIted the waist of old
Mother Earth at the equator with band
three and One-half miles wide. The re-
mainder, if cut into flooring, could have
carpeted New England. New York, New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. The
total area of the wood land was 5000
eco acres, and the merchandise timber
200 billion feet. That is what we had
at the beginning.
Before l tell you what has become OF
this mighty property let me describe III
a nutshell just what it was. Uncle sam
foresters have told me the story. Inc
woods were in five great tracts There
were the northesn forest, the southern
forest, the central forest. the ROCKY
mountain woods and the Pacific WOODS.
The northern forest was the home OIL
the white pine. covering an area ABOUT
six times as great as that of Ohio ana
containing enough lumber to have made
q belt of boards an inch thick ana
mile and half wide around the CLONE.
The southern forest was largely Oh yer
low pine and of cypress, but the trees
were not so large and in board feet IL
was just about equal that of the hortn'
The central forest. which lay petMeen'
Was nearly all hard wood. 1T had All
area much larger imam inc "oou' nv -
and south. and the lumber within it was
about half as much more as either Oh
the others 1t would have made bano
around the earth at least two miles Ill
width.
And then came the Rocky Mountain for
est. composed chiefly of cone-bearlng
trees. This contained only 110.Uo,ooo
acres. and the lumber upon it was ABOUT
400 billion board feet. The Pac1flc forest
was still smaller in area, hut 1t had the
biggest trees of the country. 1T had the
Douglas fir, the redwood and western
yellow pine 1t had the giants OF the
forest and the scientists here say that
its trees were the largest and that they
contained more lumber than any other
known to history OF geology. The area
of that forest was just about equal to
two states the size of Pennsylvania. but
the stand was SO great that it equaled
the hardwood central forest of the east.
and if cut into inch boards, it would
have sufficed to belt the globe with a
board walk of two miles in width.
Now let us see what is left. Our board
walk to the sun has been just about cut
in half, and the same is true of the left
overs. y walk could still be made, but it
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THE National Reserve

THE National Reserve
L Worth Two Billion Dol
lars and in Time Will Net
Six Millions a Year-What
Our Great Wood Lands
Mean-A Ten-foot Pathway
to the Sun-Our Big Lumber
Cut and It's Enormous Waste
Which Might Be Prevented
The Forestry Bureau and
It's Rangers - Twenty-Five
Million Dollars Loss in
Fires-The New Forest Pa
troll.
Copyright. 1911, 10y Frank Il. Carpenter
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to treat them. and the government will
send him experts. Applications for
such assistance have been already re-
ceived from owners of 10000, 900 acres,
and in some places only the ripe trees
are now cut, and the owners are
studying how to keep out the fires
1t is estimated by the Department of
Agriculture that, if the private owners
viii cooperate. the forests of the
southern pine belt can be patrolled for
northern forests can be watched at a
cost of cents per acre. while the
Rocky mountains and Pacific coast
forests would cost much less. They
estimate that all the forests in private
hands could be protected from fires for
less than $4,000, 900 per year. and thus
result in a saving of far more than
that in the value of the timber, and in
the preservation Of the young trees for
the future.
The government is doing all it can to
cut down the waste. 1t sends out advice
to the lumbermen as to how to handle
the timber, and to the managers of the
sawmlls as to the best kinds of ma
chinery. Many of the railroad ties are
now hewed out with the AK. If cut with
the saw this alone would save more than
two hundred and eighty million cubic
feet of wood every year. About two
thirds of the wood in trees chopped down
for lumber Is lost. and a large part of
that intended for mine timbers. cooper
age and piles goes to waste. The gov
eminent gives advice as to the treatment
of timber in order to keep out the in
sects and rot The insects annually de-
stroy more than eight billion cubic feet;
but this may be prevented by soaking
the timber in chemicals. The same
method is used against rot, something
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enough. and although the War Depart
ment aided by sending troops, and the
railroad companies, lumber companies
and private individuals also co-operated.
the fires spread over an area of more
than three million acres and killed somc-
thing like seven billion feet of merchant
able timber. The damages are said In
have been over twenty-five million doll
lars and the costs of fighting the fires
Were little more than a million
Altogether there Were 1000 different
fires in the national forests last year. and
most of them were cXtinguiShed by the
forest rangers. The greatest fire occurred
in northern Idaho where within twenty
four hours after starting there We're prae-
tically continuous flames for over 1ol
miles. In these fires seVenty-siN OF the
officials of the forestry service were
killed and large number injured. Some
OF the fires came from lightning. others
from campfires and some from the loco
motives of the trains which went through
the woods
Uncle Sam is now cutting considerable
lumber in the national forests. The
amount cut last year was more than
40 million feet board measure, much OF 1t
being sold the stump at s244 per
thousand. Such receipts are rapidly APP
proXlmatlng 100000 per annum and
they promise to be one of the income
bring ng branches Of the government
Nearly all the great nations Of Europe
are now max ng money ont of their state
forests In France the lumber sold brings
in So,0O0,OOO a year. and in Austria the
receipts are still greater. The forests OF
India are under government control and
are yielding about S3.oo0oe0 per annum,
while wide-awake little Japan is getting
SS,OoocO each year from the wood sold
by the government.
But il is not alone in the lumber sold
that the forestry bureau is saving MS
money. The fires or 1910 would have
caused an incalculabe loss had il not
been for the rangers and the organized
system of fire protection.
Indeed ii is estimated that the forestry
service is worth to the government at
least S150o.o0o year. OF this about
one-third comes from the Improvement OF
the woodlands, another third from the
saving of young trees and prevention OF
fires, 50, coo. 900 from the improved forest
methods which are being spread to tie
timber lands outside national ownership.
and also other items, which make up the
total of S75,ooo.O0o.
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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the 100000 members less than 1000 are
professional"
Mr.. Wall took the opportunity Of say
ing something caustic about the manage
ment of association foot ball in the
United States.
Now. you in the United States" he
said, ARE running the game by profess
Sionalism. You are attempting to run
it in the same way you run base ball.
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poration Of the company permitted only
$3.50 of that huge amount to be dis
tributed in the form of dividends on the
stock. Bradford City and Newcastle
United each draw more than $1,000 as its
share of the gate at the cup final matches
last year.
Where does all this money go to?
Secret bonuses to the stockholders and
directors who are making a fat thing
out of it," says the man in the street.
In charity and toward improving the
game" say those who insist that the
sport is free from the faint of profess
sionalism as we know it in the United
States Listen to one of the latter. F.
]. Wall. secretary of the Foot Ball As
ISOLATION.
The popularity of association foot
ball in England" said Mr.. Wall. lis
due to the fact that the sport is abso-
lutely clean. There Is no money made
out of il. Whether an organization is
called amateur or professional matters
not a bit The professional organiza-
lions as well as the amateur have only
one object in view-good, clean sport
and the betterment Of the game. The
two are but different ways OF working
toward the same end The majority of
the professional clubs have a hard
struggle to make ends meet, and when
money is made, you can take my word
for it, it does no. go into the pockets of
the directors or the stockholders.
Local charities an increase in the
wages of players and officials, improve
ment of the grounds for the comfort of
SPECTATORS account for most of il. More
than 100000 was given away by the big
leagues last year to charities of various
kinds.
THE men who are behind the various
professional clubs went on Mr.. Wall.
ARE men who are able and willing to
put their hands in their pockets and
make good any loss on the season.
workings. They are willing to do that
for the good of the game. 1t is often
charged that the directors of the Foot
Ball Association are making a good thing
out of the game. but 1 would like to see
any one tell me how they are doing it.
They are not paid. and the share cap
ital consists OF $500. divided into 1900
shares OF 25 cents each. No shareholder
is entitled to any dividend, bonus or
profit The men work absolutely with
out return of any kind, and so keen are
they on the sport that out of a member
ship of sixty the meetings Of our council
average fifty-four the year around.
..So-called professional foot ball In this
country forms but small part Of the
game, although the prominence given to
it in the newspapers is apt to make one
lose sight of the amateur game. Out of
the 1900 clubs that are affiliated with
the Foot Ball Association only between
100 and 800 Of them are professional OF
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The biggest of them would bring grief
Id tile hackers of the great empire
clubs. You who have marveled at the
thousands that have blacked the
benches of the Polo Grounds or Forbes
F1eld should gaze on the tweed-capped
iegions OF Crystal Palace on Cup-tie
day. That is the day when the final
match OF the season, by which, accord
ing to the arrangement of the foot
ball league schedule, the championship
Is decided, is played. More than 10000
people have pushed and crowded and
squeezed their way into the grounds to
witness the great struggle The great
majority, however, paid but sixpence
az cents) admission, and probably the
astute business men who are running
base ball in the United States are in
hnitely better off than those who are
behind professional foot ball in Eng
land.
cup-tie day Is one of the most aston
ishing observances in the English year.
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HAVE spent this
week at the For
estry Bureau gath
ering the latest in
formation as to
Uncle Sans wood
lands. The figures
are so great that
the mind cannot
comprehend them,
and the only way
10 understand
them is by simple
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every big match throughout the season.
tie" day Mt the Crystal Palace, London.
1t is well worth seeing from beginning
to end by any one interested in the
customs OF the people. 1t is the one
great event of the year which has a
national appeal. Men and boys, girls
and women all over the country, even in
the lowliest walks of life, save their
money months ahead to defray the rail-
way and other expenses of the day.
If the game is played at Crystal Palace,
London for a day becomes modern
Babel. Every one of the widely differ
ent accents and dialects of this strange
country is heard In it's streets. From
Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands.
from the south. from the east. from the
west they come in their thousands. The
first trainloads arrive soon after mid
night and from then until noontme train
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The Northern forest has lost 80 per cent
of its area, the Southern almost as much
and of the Central forest more than one
half has been cleared OF the Rocky
mountain woods We have still 30 per cent,
and of the Pacific coast forest almost as
much. Altogether we have remaining
timber, and of this one-tifth belongs to
the government and is being properly
cared for. The balance is in the hands of
private individuals. of corporations. syn
dlcates and trusts. and it is going so
fast that if the persent ratio continues, in
twenty or twenty-five years it will be all
cut away.
were enough to have made a boardwalk
a thousand feet wide running right
through the center of the earth from one
side to the other. The amount was more
than forty-four billion feet board meas
ure: and in addition, a vast amount of
wood was used for other purposes. The
forestry bureau estimates that we are
now annually consuming twenty thou
sand million cubic feet of good timber.
Divide that into posts a foot square,
Stand them on the earth and let them
prop up the moon. You can make fifteen
or sixteen such posts, and each of them
would reach all the way to our little sis
ter planet and still leave millions of cubic
feet for cross pieces to bolt the scaffold
together.
And where did all this lumber goo In
addition to the vast amount which went
into boards more than one thousand mil
lion feet were consumed in fence rails
posts and telegraph poles. One hundred
and eighteen million feet, mostly white
oak. went into ties for the railroads; one
hundred and sixty-five million cubic feet
were used for timbering mines, and a mil
lion and quarter cords of wood were
turned into alcohol. Many million cords
of frewoOd We're burnt. \ vast amount
of timber was used for slaves and for
heads of barrels, and enough barrel hoops
Were turned out give five to c.-er1-
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LONDON. September 2s. 1911.

UST as base ball,
the national game
of America, is
drawing to a nm
ish. a S s o C / a ton
foot ball, the ma
tional z a m e of
England, enters its
early stages. With
i'm a few weeks it
will be in full cry
and throughout the
length and breadth
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THE TEN-THOUsAND-DOL FOOT
BALL PLAYER.
Simpson, England's crack player, who
was bought by the Blackburn Rovers
for this record price.
The game will never be popular among
you until il is made clean and pure and
run as a sport. and not as a business l
have written often and long. pleading with
those who are making such "A mess OF
things on your side, but in vain"
copyright, 1911. By Curtis RgeRul
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LOGGING
-. ONA 49,
|AT1ONAL TOREST
IN ARIZONA

would be only five feet i'm width, and the
board belt around the equator would be
considerably less than two miles in width
Fully One-Ealf of the understandable tim
her has disappeared. 1t has been cut
down, burnt up and wasted in every
possible way. Some Of it has gone into
buildings, but vast amount has been
absolute waste
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of John Bulls island, IN every ioI anu
field, in every nook and corner. in every
home and school. boys and girls. men
and women, to a number closely APP
preaching the total population of the
country, will be foot ball mad. Base
ball fever is a mild and harmless disease
compared with the foot ball lunacy or
the British.
Glance at a few figures and see for
yourself. III England alone there are
more than 5000 regularly constituted
foot ball clubs playing schedule of
games throughout the season. There are
90 recognized important leagues, some
Of them embracing twenty. thirty or even
forty clubs. The Foot Ball Association,
the largest governing body in the game
has Jurisdiction over Il. zoo clubs and Oh
It's rolls are more than 10000 members
IL registers and sanctions UOJ0 referees
and has more or less authoritative con-
troll over every big game played in the
country
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These astounding figures do not include
the thousands of clubs and the hundreds
Of thousands of players in schools
throughout England. They are not regis
tered by the Foot Ball Association, but
have separate organization of their
own, much like the bodies that govern
public school athletics in the United
states.
There are still 20 be found enthusiasts
who claim that cricket is the national
game OF England AS q popular sport.
cricket cannot hold candle u its more
healthy rival. Thousands shrek them
selves hoarse as spectators, lose their
eyesight and confound their mathematics
over the percentage tables, or die nine
deaths "A day OH the field. for the sake
OF the champagne of foot ball, for every
one that sips the still beer OF cricket.
Professional foot ball in England bears
many points of resemblance To profess
sionaI base ball in the United States.
There are also. however. many points OF
divergence. Professional base ball in the
-nited States is openly and frankly run
for the purpose of making money for the
men and syndicates back of the various
clubs. The big leagues are their own
masters and acknowledge the authority
OF ~" higher governing body Whatever
may be the true inside situation iii pro-
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man. woman and child in the Unite
States and leave some to spare.
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NEW OFFICIAL rs
TO BE cd

-E.a 3 ~. % -
rants Tor the Bayment thereof upon
the treasurer OF the state. not 10
exceed any amoant APPROPRIATED by
the legisiataFs 4or This departments
Sec. s It shatt De the duty OF
the Commissioners of agriculture to
look after and deyise means OF adj
yaneing the asrtc6ltura1 interests Of
the state, topr6mote and encourage,
as far as possible, the organization
OF such societies and associations as
may be organized for the purpose OF
improving OF developing the agri-
cultural, horticultural and kindred
interests Of the state. He shall
prescribe rules and regulations
whereby the College Of Agriculture
shan hold, from time to time, insti-
.utes, at such times and places as
are likely to be Of benefit and use:
He shall publish aad distribute
throughout the state. such reports
aandbooks, horticultural and kin
lied subjects as in his judgment,
nay be Of value and interest to the
armers of the state. And it shall
oe the duty OF the state printer to
,rint' the same in. such. numbers
md in such manner as shall be pre-
criDed by said commissioner, aud
he cost OF said printing shall be
aid out of the general public print-
ng fund of the state.
He shall be charged with the In
ucement of capital and immigra-
lon by the dissemination of kndwl.
dye relating to the advantages OF
oil, climate, healthfulness, and
larkets of the state, and to the re-
ources and Industrial opportunities
ftered in the state.
He shall investigate and report
pom the conditions, kinds and ex
emit of mineral products in the state
nd as far as possible ascertain
heir value. He shall have charge
II the museum OF the department
If agriculture, and may cause it t
e collected, preserved and exhibited
herein, specimens of the agricuL
ural, horticultural and kindred
,roducts, and forest products, and
minerals, floral and fauna of this
state.
He shall have authority to call
upon the officials of any department
pr Office of the state government,
'r any county official, and 1t is here,
" made the duty OF the state and
,ounty officials to assist in every
Continued on page -
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sot.a number of letters that have re-
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