Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-04-18

faces at one of them recently. said that one had
but to see them to know that the camps are a
success Their chief success is. after all, not In
the trees which these young foresters are saving
or are planting for the future, but In the new
spirit, vigor and hopefulness of the men them
selves. When the epic story Of this period comes
to be written, 1t may even begin with Trees and
the Man | sing AT any rate, the trees will have
had q proud part In It,"
Even more interesting than the foregoing testi-
m0ny to the Importance of this work Is the testi-
mony Of Mr.. Pack himself. Writing under the
head of Auditing the CCC Ledger" In a recent
Issue of the Review of Reviews and Worlds
Work, he said In part:
More than two hundred million dollars will
have been poured into this conservation hopper
by next spring. Out of one spout has come a
satisfactory flow of human benefits. Out Of the
others there have come constantly increasing
streams Of economic benefits and conservation
value.
Under the federal ~foresters particularly there
have been amazing results. Some OF these are
tangible and visible today others are investments
In the future. Fire, Insects and disease are the
three great enemies OF our forest resources. The
average annual loss from fire is stimated to be
ffty-three million dollars or the burning over Of
about f~orty-one million acres Of forested land.
The Geo has made possible a great extension
of the fire control work. There Ia certainly a
dollar and cents value In the actual timber saved
on public and private land, as well as the poten-
tial timber preserved from fire on land which
Is restocking with forest. And the cutting
through of thousands of miles of FIRE lanes to
check the spread OF low-running fires, and trails
to make the areas more accessible for fighting,
are investments of effort of more than fmmedi-
ate value.
Some of the men of the corps have been
engaged In rodent control, working on grazing
lands rented out by the United States forest
service. Rodents destroy the grass coverage,
seriously reducing the revenue-producing value
of the grazing areas.
Many thousands Of the CCC are engaged In
what Is called cultural forestry. This is the
treatment of forest areas to improve their COM
position, quality and rate of growth. We know
that such work brings dividends In greater
yields. 1t has been demonstrated that cultural
treatment In both pine and hardwood stands will
Increase the money yield per acre by two and
one-half times. This is another phase of the
work which cannot be translated into actual fig
ures today. But 1t 10 adding In very considerable
measure to future values.
MOI only does Mr.. PACK realze Le Importance
of the Geo work to the future Of forestry, but
he also calls these camps 'the biggest night
school In the world" and their work "the biggest
educational job ever undertaken in this country"
In a message to the heads of forestry schools
throughout the country, he said:
There are in round numbers three hundred
thousand men In these CCC camps. III they put
In only one hour per night for instruction for
six nights q week, they will use one million
eight hundred thousand hours per week In study.
Counting fifty weeks in the year to allow for
time out for various reasons, they win have
devoted ninety million hours to study Of one
kind or another.
"Call 1t a six-hour day and that would mean
fully fifteen million working days put In on
mental development Of one kind or another.
Reduce that ninety million hours to calendar
days of twenty-four hours each and we have
three hundred seventy-fve thousand days. This
then means we will have approximately one thou
sand and twenty-five man-years devoted to educa-
ton In the Geo camps"
@ BY Western Newspaper Union