Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-08-25

coast. Already the Pacific coast lumber, with
1000 5000 mile haul, is to be found in the
larger cities of the East SO the lumber industry
has made its last jump The United States Blu
reau of Corporations gives sixty years to use
up all the log lumber at the present rate Of con-
sumption.
When the Pacific coast lumber begins to run
| short, we can import lumber do without
it. If we don't like either of these alternatives,
we grow some more timber and pulp wood and
cooperage and box stuff and trees to yield turpen-
tine and resin and fannie and acetc acid and wood
alcohol and arplane propellers and lead pencils
and clothes pins and ak handles and such things
which come from the forests and nowhere else.
Whenever we get ready we can grow all the
timber we want Growing timber is a simple af-
fair-if we go at it right.
We put it another way and say that origi-
nally there SO0,00O0OO acres of virgin for
ests in the United States. There are now only
2O0,O0O000 acres, 25 per cent of this, left. The
6O0,000000 acres that gone were depleted in
the last seventy years
Unless something is done about it, the United
States will some time be treeess land--ts vast
original forests laid low; those of its industries
which depend upon timber for their existence,
crippled or broken.
There are healthy signs that good many peo-
pie of the opinion that something should be
done about it, And one Of the things to be done
about it would seem to be a practical and COM
prehenSive policy of reforestaton. All interests
seem to agree on the necessity of reforestaion.
There sSw two reforestation bills before
congress. One of these is the Capper bill and the
other is the Smell bill The former aims at federal
encouragement of state action The latter provides
federal regulation of forestry in the states and
proposes for the next five years to increase the
governments appropriation for forestry to $10,
100000 year.
Another indication of the general feeling that
something should be done about it is the hearings.
held in various parts of the country by national
forestry policy committee" appointed by the
United States Chamber of Commerce. This COM
mlttee began operations in New York. 1t then
went in succession to Chicago, Minneapolis, Spo-
| kane Seattle, Portland and San Francisco.
David L. Goodwillie, a Chicago box manufac-
| turer, is chairman. The other members of the
committee Charles S. Keith, president Central
Coal & Coke company, Kansas City, Mo-; +. @.
| Knapp, president Peninsular Lumber company,
| Portland, Oregon; George L. Curtis, Curtis Com
panies, Inc, Clinton, Iowa. John Fletcher, vice.
president Fort Dearborn National bank, Chicago,
| ILL.,. Charles f. Quincy, president Q. and G. COM
| pany, New York city; DR.. Henry S. Drnker,
Merton Station, Pa; DR.. Hugh P. Baker, secretary
| and treasurer American Paper & Pulp association,
| New York city; Harvey N. Shepart, attorney, Bos-
| ton, Mass; Junius H. Browne, vice president Pa
| cific Lumber company New York city; DR.. w. B.
| Heinemann, president B. Heinemann Lumber COM
| pany, Wausau WIS.,; w. Dub. Brookings, secre-
| tary Of the committee, Chamber Of Commerce Of
| the United States Washington, d. G.
This committee has gone into the subject in a
| broad way, seeking to get every viewpoint before
making a report on which it is hoped policy can
be formulated. The chairman appointed several
subcommittee of the original committee to deal
with specific subjects coming under the general
| heading of forestry Some of these subjects are
| government regulation, private holdings, individ
ual versus public right, fire protection and ex-
penditures acquisition Of land, national forest sur
vey, taxes and taxation. utilization Of wood and
| forest conservation, reforestation and national
| forests.
| "As an example Of how serious problem our
| forestry problem is let me point to the well known
| fact that in seven years so per cent OF the saw
mills Of the South will be out Of business" says
| Mr.. Go0dwillie. what this means Is better rea-
| lied when we consider that the sawmills of the
| South now produce 30 per cent of all the lumber
used in the country.
| "These meetings simply TO get at all the
| facts to give us thorough grasp Of the problem
| to inform us fully of its scope. When we have
| finished we will make report and recommends
lions to the board of directors of the chamber and
! they will consider what action Is necessary