The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-03-23

mcnts By the Great Lakes and by rail
from the middle west and the Rocky
Mountain states. The New Workers
can readily forsee that with direct
shipment from the head OF Lake SIT
perior and Lake Michigan 10 Europe.
and with commerce plying in the op-
positc direction. that it will be de-
privcd OF a wealth OF business that IT
cannot afford TO lose. New York
therefore proposes its " waterway
system that viii cut across the country
from somewhere around Buffalo and
by use Of canals and lakes finally tap
the Hudson river in the vicinity Of
Albany. The advocates OF this plan
have been making a good deal Of noise
the last year or two. and they have
a lot Of congressman believing that IL
the feasibility Of such a route can be
demonstrated that II will be a good
thing to put over because it will not
only shorten the route 10 the sea by a
great distance but it will avoid going
into Canada. which in this instance IS
always spoken OF as a foreign coun-
try"
Examination OF the Great Lakes
St. Lawrence plan shows that its pro-
meters have always laid great stress
on the tremendous water power de-
velopment that will be a feature OF
this engineering project. The inland
states and the states along the Great
Lakes have paid little attention to this
phase OF the question. Their problem
is m merely Of transportation. How
ever. New York State finds that it is
in danger not only of losing a great
amount Of transportation but that with
a Canadian water ways that they may
also come out second best in the no
less important matter OF water power
development. Hence the activity of
Governor Smith and the legislators OF
the State OF New York toward estab-
the claims and advancing water
power development in the Empire
State. With Niagara Falls serving as
a power station for great hydro-elec-
trio activities the New Workers have
a pleasing example of the possibilities
their reach. And whether they
get along with the Federal govern
ment or not is not so important as it
is that the people who can be served
should reap the benefits of a new econ-
era that may succeed in the lie
centralizing OF industry and popula.
lion.
VIII America Follow Reforestation9
There is a great shortage of timber
n the United States and Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace has expressed the
attitude Of serious minded men in en-
'hasizing the need of planting trees.
The country Is now consuming three :
" four times as much timber as is be- :,
ng grown. Something-the afore-
mentioned serious-minded men agree
must be done about it. theoretically ;
nation says we must have refor-
The man is a rarity who
oes out upon private acreage and e
lants trees with the idea that some :
he will sell them for lumber. Ra- :
id growing trees are planted for >
hade and for purposes OF adornment. !.
ut who wants to plant a pine tree
nd sit around for so or 90 years wait :
for it to go to the sawmill? The J.
overnment can do that sort OF thing
the national forests and upon pub
, lands but private individuals COM
ain that wen one or two crops of
ASS or grain is o slow a process
r a livelihood. Tell these same peo-
{ about the reforested areas of Eu- =
pc where rows of trees, are planted Z,
e corn and they will agree that Eu- ii