But there is a brighter side to the work that is going on here. The new mayor has a plan for afforestation. Instead of trying to develop extensive forests, owned by the public in general, or by some trick to pass into the hands of some politician, he is working up a system of wood-lots. Firewood is needed everywhere very badly. He wishes to give as many as possible of the families who are willing to plant wood-lots, specially or firewood. un opportunity to do s0. Heretofore, if any one planted a tree, he never knew when some one would come by and cut it down. If 2 complaint was lodged a the orson who cut it, that complaint had to go through the local police and that involved a fee, with small expectation of getting redress. For this reason no complaints" were lodged and no trees were planted. Now the police will be made responsible for the protection of the trees {in the locality, and have already learned from experience that unless they perform their duties to the sat-Istaction of the people, they will be brought to book. No longer will the people have to hunt after them to, obtain redress, they will be glad of obtaining information that will prove that they are attending to their duties.
According to the new plan, certain mountain lands will be set apart! {or planting and notification of their localities will be posted. Families can apply for five mow of wood-lot land in the area nearest to their homes.
So as to reduce the clerical work of the division of waste lands into wood-lots, the families are asked to form themselves into groups of ten each and each to apply through a representative for 50 mow. Ten of these groups will be given a section of 500 mow around which there will be left nfireclane 100 feet wide and the groups In the section will be responsible for keeping that lane fire-proof.
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