White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-26

How many Ely people who love
oranges, apples. peaches and Other
fruits realize that the supply of these
delicacies is dependent on the prac-
tice of forestry as well as horticul-
ture? Nevertheless this is actually
the case and the explanation Is SIM
pie, as the American Forestry Asso-
citation points out. Fruits are almost
always shipped in wood containers.
Wood comes only from the trees. And
we are rapidly approaching the point
where trees will NO longer be avail
able in sufficient numbers to meet
even our present needs unless We
practice forestry. Boxes now absorb
Is per cent of the total lumber cut
in this country. In Florida alone the
growers of oranges and grapefruit al
ready require more than 12,00a, coo
boxes a year 10 get their crop TO the
market. If production continues to
increase at the same rate ii has i'll
recent years by 1890 it will require
lie, zoe, 900, or something like 22O,-
6o0 600 board feet of lumber.
Where is the lumber to build the
boxes to come from? Florida fruit
growers are already becoming alarm
ed at the steadily waning supply of
southern pine and are considering
ways and mean of meeting the sit
uation. All fr~uit-growers should be
alarmed. if they are not now. The
answer is simple-to assure a per-
manent supply of timber by prae-
tieing forestry, by encouraging tree
growing the same as we encourage
the growing of fruit and farm prod
uctS.
When all of us wake up and learn
how fast our timber is disappearing
and that il is not coming on as fast
as il is being cut down, then and only
then will we have started in TO solve
what is going TO prove n of the
biggest problems America eve had
t. %unraye1.
After travelling over almost every
state In the Union, gathering data of
various kinds for the government. an
expert has returned TO Washington
with the statement that the thing
which impressed him most was the
way the smaller towns of the nation
permit their streets 10 be Uttered up.
We read his report-and we o
dered if lie passed through Ely. For
though we are far ahead of some
of Il neighbors in this respect. We
must confess We have a class which
apparently sees no harm in throwing
that which they do not want into the
Banana skies, apple %peclings.
tin cans. waste paper. sometimes caEt.
of shoes and hats are tossed in the
street and left Ia the clements TO dis
pose of. All of which is an ugly prae-
tiee. as we'll as an unhealthy one. If
we keep our houses healthful OF the
inside we've got TO keep the sur
healthful. And we cannot
that by littering up the streets
with matter that will decay and breed
flies and disease-earrying insects.
The thing TO do To prevent this,
though the person willfully doing so
could be punished under the law. is
for each citizen 10 appoint himself Il
committee of one To see that our
streets and sidewalks are kept clean
Don't throw anything on them your.
self, and if you see the other fellow
doing il take "A moment to tell him in
"A kindly. ~neighborly way thai H.
ought to have more pride in his home
town than To do so. Let protect
our own health and the health Of
those who come here 10 visit us by
keeping our streets clean. no matter
what neighboring towns nay lac do
ing along this line.
II may interest Ely people 10 know
that a report Just sent out by Uncle
Sam shows plowlands in the United
States decreased 7 per cent in price
per acre during the last year. The
average value OF nlowlands per acre
March ! was SS3.7S, as compared &C.
800 o. in 1920 and 1881 in 1919.
II is blamed on declines in crop
prices. The report also shows that
the greatest drop was in Kentucky.
due to tobacco price declines A
year < the average price per acre
of Kentucky ~plowlands was $40. This
year il is placed at $50. The high
est score is shown in Iowa. There
the average plowland acre is quoted
OF $500. while last year the value was
S2f9 Illinois shows the next slight
est drop. Western states. taken as a
whole. show a smaller decrease than
those in the east, north or south. II
is also interesting to note that. ac-
cording To the report. land prices in
the United States are still higher than
they ever were in history up to the
year 1920.
What affords any more pleasure
than meeting ON the street the man
whose soul is filled with sunshine?
The world loves him, and AT home IL
is like a good tonic to have him
around. We have quite a few Of this
kind in Ely, and how we wish we had
more, Their magic power to trans
form trying situations Is worth more
than money, and IL always makes a
fellow feel like he had more to live
for when he sees their sunny smiles,
hears their words of good cheer and
feels their approving handshake or
pat on the back. What a wonderful
thing il is tic be able to carry your
own sunshine right around with you
to cast a glow of brightness and JOY
upon every condition of life. The
power 10 turn gloom into gladness
the mirth-rrovoking faculty, the abil
lily to make a man smile when h,
feels blue-it's worth everything e
possess. And the young man who Ii
soon 10 start out into the world fol
! himself couldn't do a wiser thint
Than cultivate thp sunshine habit