I do not know what the price of timber in your market is at the present time, but I will hazard a guess that it is higher than a year ago, and I will predict that it will be higher next year. On the Pacific Coast we are in the best timber country in the world, I suppose, but summer conditions certainly play havoc with the forests, I refer, of course, to forest fires; and if the reader has never seen a forest fire, let him pray that he see it only from a distance! understand that in the Pacific Coast states, including Montana and Tdaho, there have been 5,500 forest fires this year, and visitors and campers have been responsible for nearly half of them. These fires have cost $4,250,000, no less than '$8,000,000 being in standing timber inthe national forests and parks. Private timber organizations have spent about x million and a half dollars in protection against fires this year, and the government nearly half a million. But this year's losses have been extremely light, and, so Tam told, less than 10 per feet, of the disastrous 1910—whieh is hard to bel holiday maker is mostly to blame. Rangers and loggers and lumber manufacturers do not hesitate to say that while recreation is a good thing for those citizens who can take advantage of it, "it comes at too high a price when the carelessness of tourists and campers may cost the country anywhere from a few thousand to Experts on the Pacific urging a further restric-Wye policing of forest areas, which utilization of the forests and private, for recreational purpose:
This would be a thousand pities, better can be recommended to the jaded Shanghai busi ness man than a camping tour in fitlier of the most glorious states on the Pacific seaboard of the United States.
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