California Forester Estimates 65% of Cut'over Lands Now Producin$

That some 65 per cent of the 3,438,000 acres of cut-over forest land in California are capable of producing a second growth of pine timber of a value appro>{imatjng-that of the 6riginal cr6p is, in the opinion of Silviculturist S. B. Show, of The Unit6d States Foiest Service, evidence that reckless logging methods and careless or uninformed control of fire oti*Caiifo..tia's forest lands have not entirely deprived future generations of the timber crops they- must harvest -if this fart of our country is to maintain its present rvellbeing.

"Oiver a third of the forest land, holvever, that has been cut over by lumber companies, or by pulp.and paper companies, raiiroads, sheep and cattle men, mining companies ind others during the past quarter century nolv lies idle and unproductive," remarked I\Ir. Shorv in the course of a recent discussion of the subject. "Groln up as it is to a dense stand of brush, it is indeed a positive menace to nearby timber, for the forest fires in these brush fields are

E. K. Wood Officials Go North

Mr. Frank Curran, General Manager in Southern California for the E. K. Wood Lumber Company has been in the Northwest for the past two weeks visiting the mills, and combining a business trip u'ith a summer vacation.

IIe was jo'ined at Seattle by Mr. H. F. Vincent, San Francisco manag'er.

as uncontrollable as are the disastrous fires corpmon in other regions. Indeed, such fires -can- rarely be lconfined strictlv Io the brush-covered lands themselves. Of the total i,188,000 acres of non-producing land. some 600,000 acres in round figures will hive some growth -in qourse of time, amounting-to about one-fifth of the possible stocking of timber; not enough to make commercial lumbering a possibility. Within 75years. horvever. if fire is kept out.and ieseeding is normal, an adequate forest grou'th.-shoul-d b.e rvell under way. For the rest, only planting u'ill make it possible for them to produce. timber of any kihd, even ivithin the next century or so."

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOATEN

W. K. Hall, for several years State Counselor of Kentuckv. has retired from the lumber business and troved to California.

Besides the loss of an active Hoo-Hoo rvorker, Kentucky loses a prominent and most likeable lumberman, one who has held the afiection and esteem of his contempofaries for manv vears. Brother Hall. rvhose number in Hoo-Hoo is 14314, does not intend to sacrifice his interest in tlle Order, he rvrites from Long Beach, Cal. Instead, h9 :"y!, h-e--will enjoy very much being able to do fu{h91 rvork in the West.

i{i *'.i proprietor of tne W. K. Hall Lumber Company at Fulton, Ky.-From Hoo-Hoo Bulletin.

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