Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-03-27

oIo1O wi" iiilCIoc IeCd1l tuelE pTOHl-
Use of 1910 that delegatl Jns to all con-
ventions would be based upon the
governorship vote of that year?
The Republican State committee has
arranged. through the Vermont dele
cation in congress, to have Hon.
Charles E. Townsend, senator from
Michigan. address the Republican
state convention at Montpelier. April
10th. Senator Townsend is one of the
authors of the Esch-Townsend Rail-
road bill, which with some amend
ments. is now the Federal Railroad
Law. He was member of the 58th,
59th. 60th. 61st and 62nd congresses !;
was nominated United States senator
at the primaries in Michigan. Sept.
7th. 1910. receiving a majority of
forty lone thousand over Senator Bur-
roughs. and elected by the Michigan
legislature. Jan. Is, 1911. receiving
one hundred and fifteen votes to four
teen for John T. Winship. democrat.
He has been progressive in his ideas
and was a supporter Of the principa.
policies of President Roosevelt. He
is a supporter of President Taft for
denomination and believes that he has
faithfully and honestly endeavored to
have enacted sound progressive laws.
and that his service to the country
has been such that he is entitled to a
denomination by bis party and an
election by the people.
| Valuable Object Lesson to Vermont.
A recent item in the Bangor Com.
mercial of Maine states that Land
! Commissioner Mace has just turned
into the state $18, 252.52 received
| for the sale of stumpage and rentals
from the reserved school lands of the
plantations and townships. It appears
that the state of Maine has wisely re-
tanned control of sixty-nine different
tracts of thousand acres each in as
many unorganized sections of the
state, the timber land to be available
| for school purposes as soon as the
townships are settled.
The article referred to does not
state whether this land is being hand
/ led on forestry principles with the
idea of obtaining a permanent in.
come, but it suggests what splendid
thing it would be for Vermont to own
similar tracts in the Green noun.
tains, which would not only safeguard
the states scenery, but furnish excel.
lent examples of forestry to the pri
vate owners, and, last but not least
yield permanent income to the state
Forest land properly managed should
yield permanent net income of from
81 to So an acre, so the revenue from
tracts of 10000 acres might be ex.
pected to range somewhere between
$3.50, 900 and $780, 900.
Of the four state forests in Yer
mont only one of them, consisting OF
500 acres. the L. R. Jones forest ir
Plainfield, is practically self-support
ing and will soon yield profit. This
land with considerable wood and lum
Der on it has cost the state about SIS al
acre, and it is an admirable exampl,
of great tracts which can be pur
chased at a. similar price. The fac
that these lands III Maine are to bt
eventually devoted to the support O
the schools reminds US that there ar,
IN Vermont considerable areas o
school lands belonging to the variou
towns. The question naturally arise
as to whether these lands are beinl
managed for the benefit of the state
or of the individuals who hold tn
leases. Many of these tracts are nat
ural forest lands. and as such shout
yield permanent income of no littl
value to the towns.