The Coolidge examiner., 1934-04-20

faces az one ~ them recently. said that one had
bar 10 them 90 know that the camps are a
success' Their chief success IT, after ali. not In
the trees which these young foresterS are saving
or are planting for the future. but In the new
spirit ylror and hopefulness ~ the men them
selves when the epic story Of this period comes
to be written. IL may even begin with Trees and
the Man sing AZ any rate. the trees win have
had proud part 10 g."
Even more interesting than the foregoing testi.
nony to the Importance of this work Is the testl.
mony of Mr. Pack himself. Writing under the
head of Auditing the Ccc Ledger In a recent
Issue Of the Review % Reviews and Worlds
Work. be said To part
More than two hundred million dollars VIII
have been poured into this conservation hopper
by next spring out Of one spout has come a
satisfactory aow OF human benefits out ot 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 estimated 10 be
hfty-three million dollars or the burning over of
about forty-one million acres Of forested land
~ the Gre control work. There is certainly a
dollar and cents value In the actual timber saved
On public and private land as well as the poten.
tal timber preserved from FIRE on land which
Is restocking with forest And the cutting
through of thousands OF miles OF Ere lanes TO
check the spread OF low-running fires and trails
10 make the areas more accessible for fighting
are investments OF effort OF more than immedl-
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. II has been demonstrated that cultural
treatment in both pine and hardwood stands Will
increase the money yield per acre by two anG
one-half times. This Is another phase OF the
work which cannot be translated into actual hg
ures today. But Il Is adding In very considerable
measure TO future values.
Not only does Mr. Pack realize the Importance
Of the CCC work 10 the future OF forestry. but
he also calls these camps the biggest night
educational job ever undertaken in this country"
In a message 10 the heads of forestry schools
throughout the country. he said
There are in round numbers three hundred
thousand men In these CCC camps. II they put
In only one hour per night for instruction for
six nights a 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 will have
devoted ninety million hours to study OF one
Kind or another.
call il 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-ive thousand days This
then means we will have approximately one thou
sand and twenty-five man-years devoted to educa-
ton In the CCC camps"
G BY western Newspaper Union