EXHAUSTION OF U. S.
FORESTS IS FEARED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—
President Coolidge today asked for
a specific program of timber-saving
in opening the national conference
on utilization of forest products.
The nation faces timber exhaus
tion, the president warned, and the
situation must be met, he insisted,
by diminishing waste and increasing
supply.
The resources of the nation are a
trust, Mr. Coolidge declared, sub
ject to use by the present genera
tion, administered free of monopo
lies and from those “who will un
wisely permit them to be dissipated,”
but there must be restoration as
well as use.
About 754,000,000,000 cubic feet of
timber is left in this country, he
poinied out and against this supply
there is an annual drain of 25,000,
000,000 cubic feet while the annual
timber growth is only 6,000,000,000
feet. In the face of this situation,
he declared, the nation must turn
to the problems of growing woood
from the soil like any other crop.
‘‘To bridge the fatal gap between
cut and growth,” however, Mr. Cool
idge said, sufficient action had not
been taken and the counrty con
sequently must adjust itself imme
diately to a reduced per capita con
sumption.
The president saw “hopeful signs’’
in federal legislation as enacted in
the Clarke McNary bill, passed at
the last session of congress, mak
ing provision for fire protection and
restoration, and in the Weeks law,
authorizing government purchase of
numerous forest tracts. These must
be supported, he declared, by a pol
icy which will “in the hands of
private individuals and public offi
cers, tend to the further advance
ment of this already well defined
and securely adopted principle.”
“So vast an enterprise as the for
est-using industries must not be
allowed to decline for lack of raw
material,” the president continued.
We have abundant soil to produce
it. We have the energy and the
intelligence to learn to use our for
ests without waste. This confer
ence ought to lay the foundations
of a far-seeing and effective effort
for forest thrift.
“In the coming struggle for tim
ber, economic survival among the
forest industries will depend on eco
nomic fitness. "Economic fitness
will be measured by good man
ment and good technical processes.
These qualities come from research
and from training; and the forest
industries, to reach a high level of
skill, must make a full use of both
these tools of modern progress.
“Hitherto, the diversity from the
geographical isolation, and the small
average size of our wood-using in
dustries, coupled with abundance of
raw material, has kept them from
advancing as rapidly in improved
methods as some of our more highly
concentrated industries. But timber
shortage will force competition in
better methods. Much is already
known of better methods and the
time is already here when this
knowledge can be profitably em
ployed.
“Many companies have in fact
made notable progress in waste re
duction and are furnishing examples
of what can be done by careful man
agement and expert planning. It
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seems possible that the individual
industries, by banding together, can
overcome their handicaps of isloa
tion and collectively employ more
experts to work out better pro
cesses.
"It is to consider joint efforts to
ward better forest utilization that
this conference has been summoned.
It is a movement in which the state
and national government, the indus
tries, the universities, the consum
ers and the technical experts should
join. The various government ag
encies equipped to help will, I know,
be eager to do what they can to
forward this undertaking.
“We hold the resources of our
country as a trust. They ought
to be used for the benefit of the
present generation, but they ought
neither, to be wasted or destroyed.
The generations to come also have
a vested interest in them. They
ought to be administered for the
benefit of the public. No monopoly
should be permitted which would
result in profiteering nor on the
other hand should they be indis
criminately bestowed upon those
who will unwisely permit them to
be dissipated. These great natural
resources must be administered for
the general welfare of the people
both for the present and for the
future. There must be both use
and restoration. The chief purpose
of this conference is to discover poli
cies whcih will, in the hands of
private individuals and of public
officers, tend to the further advance
ment of this already well-defined
and securely adopted principle.”
About 350 producers, manufactur
I ers and consumers of wood and wood
| products assembled here today for
1 the first national conference on util
ization of forest products to consider
methods for eliminating waste in
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the industry. In addition to Presi
dent Coolidge the list of speakers
included Acting Secretary Gore, of
the department of agriculture; J.
Walter Drake, assistant secretary of
commerce, and William B. Greeley,
chief of the United States forest
service.
Forest service officials have ex
pressed the opinion that if ifficient
manufacture and the use of forest
products can be brought up to the
same plans. as the two other phases
of the government forest policy—
promotion of forest growth and for
est protection—approximately 6,000,
000,000 of the annual drain of 25,
000,000,000 cubic feet of the nation’s
forest reserves will be saved for use
ful purposes. On the principle that
a tree saved is a tree grown, they
also figure that another 6,000,000,000
feet could be saved eventually.
Prominent men from all sections
of the country, including manufac
turers, dealers, re-manufacturer3
and users of lumber, timber, pulp,
paper and other forest products, for
estry engineers and professors, rep
resentatives of the trade and daily
press and various government ag
encies were invited to attend the
meeting which will continue for a
few days.
The conference is an outgrowth
of a proposition sponsored by the
research section of the forest service
at the request of Carlyle P. Wins
low', director of the United States
forest products laboratory of Madi
son, Wis. Mr. Winslow issued a
settlement saying that “at the pres
ent rate of cutting the supply is
being alarmingly depleted despite
the efforts at tree growing and for
est fire fighting.”
One way to help tide over the
wood shortage, he said, is for the
w'ood user to realize the much higher
value wood will acquire as the sup
ply decreases and especially when
it is growrn as a crop, and to do
his share in conservation. In add
ing that the greatest loss of wrood
at present comes from decay in
service, which “is largely prevent
able,” he estimated that savings
equivalent to four-ninths of the
present annual timber cutting on the
forests could be made through the
general adoption of better wood utili
zation methods, developed through
research, with a corresponding
lengthening of the life of the for
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Following the president’s address,
Acting Secretary Gore welcomed the
delegates and declared “the effec
tiveness of this conference lies in
organized industrial effort,”
“Joint effort alone,” he said, “of
fers a solution of the problem of
how the remaining timber resources
of the United States can be used
most economically and effectively.”
Chief Forester Greeley told the
conference that large wastes in the
utilization of timber “is a well
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CALIFORNIA FORESTS MORE
THAN PAY FOR SELVES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5.—The na
tional forests of California are one
of the big business enterprises of the
government that pays for itself. Fig
ures just released by the United
States forest service district head
quarters at San Francisco, show
that during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1914, there was turned into
the Federal treasury the sum of $1,
241,605 as receipts from timber sales,
livestock grazing and other forms of
uses of the 17 national forests of the
state. The expenditures for the
same period amounted to approxi
mately $895,000, leaving a credit bal
ance of over one-quarter of a million
dollars.
Twenty-five per cent of the national
forest receipts or $310,400 will be re
turned to the state to be distributed
to counties in which national forests
are-"located for school and road de
velopment.
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was evacuated In 1915.
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