Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-11-11

in the forest on the mighty work that
has been done in this state through
conservation of its resources, and cit.
/. ing the present effort as a climaxine
instance of its value.
Mr.. Hardtner, president Of the
Urania Lumber Company, and also
president of the Southern Forestry
Congress and the Louisiana Forestry
| Association, was the host of the Wis
ltors. Mr.. Hardtner acted as guide
to his guests and afterward enter
tanned them with banquet on the
HardtneF estate, which embraces
some 1000 acres of forest land.
Big Interests Pledged
Colonel A. G. Goodyear, president
of the Great Southern Lumber Com
pany and the New Orleans Great
Northern Railway Company, said that
no effort would be spared by the
Louisiana companies inewhich he is
interest to reforest the cut-over
lands controlled by them.
II am confident" he said, 'that
Mr.. Hardtner's experiments proved
beyond the possibility of doubt that
pulp wood can be grown on cut-over
lands in fifteen or twenty years, that
the industry can be economically con
Quoted and that it will do much to
relieve the paper situation through
out the nation"
Colonel Goodyear stated that the
company is now planting 700 acres,
and that in all the logging operations
conducted by the lumber companies,
sufficient seed trees would be left
standing on all areas of cut-over to
insure natural reforestation.
Colonel w. 81. Sullivan said that
the permanent prosperity of Boga-
lusa, town which he practically
hewed out Of the forest, is assured
by the plans of his company to grow
pulp wood and erect pulp mills.
believe that the demonstrations
made by Henry E. Hardtner will re-
suit in bringing to the South a new
industry that will flourish as long as /
2 pine tree grows-which is forever
the paper-making business. We can
grow the wood here and we can man /
qfacture 1t into paper. Nature has
done her best-it remains for US to
help ourselves. We have the re-
sources, we have the labor, we have
The money, and, gentlemen, / believe
we have the initiative and ability.
Let's go to it."
State to Cooperate
Commissioner Alexander assured
hose present that the state and his
department. would lend every possiblei
cooperation to any plans of refores-
alton that would ultimately rebound
Q the good of the people. He told of
he contract entered into between his
department. and Mr.. Hardtner to set
lslde some $4,000 acres for refores-
alton purposes on the vast tract at
Jrania and now these experiments
lad attracted to Louisiana the atten-
ion of the United States Forest Ser !
ice, which had conducted many of {
IS most important experiments
light on the ground where the meet
ng was held. u
It is the concensus of opinion Of
II present that private interests will ;
eadily invest in lands for refores-
alton, when the pulp mills establish :
market for the product and the
tate agrees to keep taxation within
limits.
AS an indication that the people
altered at Urania today mean bust
ess, and they will start work imme-
lately, Mr.. Sullivan announced that
is company viii pay half of the ex-
ense of soil survey of Washington I
arish this winter, such survey to be Z
Onducted by the federal govern :
Ient, which will decide which lands =
lould be reserved for agriculture 7
nd which should be reforested. :