Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 30, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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Hon or tbo forest conditions
APRHUMINAIIY inado durliiK
the past winter by tho Unit-
ed Stairs Foroat Servlco In
cooperation with tho state The re-
port Is now completed and has been
submitted to the governor for his con
sidrratlon It Is hoped that the leg
stature may bo able to Incorporate at
least some of the recommendations
Into taw In tho near futuro
Hnrlda occupies a prominent posi-
tion among tho timber and turpentine
Ptpduclns states of the country It
has at present a greater per cent or
Ttslandhr forest than any other state
i > oine af ttw finest Stands of longleaf s
pine In the south are contained with-
in Its border The development of
tlfe forest Industries during the past
foW tears lias been phenomenal
While the agricultural development
In certain parts of tho state will make
permanent use of Immense areas of
cutover land die bulk of lands now
being cut ot er will not be needed for
agricultural purposes for many years
to route In the meantime tho tim-
ber ptoducing possibilities of such
Unds are being destroyed by repeated
Ires turpentining and reckless lum
berlng The opportunity to orgnnlze
uurt adopt plans of forest manago
mom should not be delayed until the
forest lands have all been cut aver
Many states have temporarily de
veiopod at lho expense of their for-
est Interests and have realized too
late the disastrous effects of wasting
their forest resources >
Ute report of the ForcBt Service
fcxumlnfr In Florida lays particular
stress on the Importance of ft strong
forest policy for the state There
shouldbe a commission of forestry
to have general supervision of the
forestry interests of the state and
lo appoint a statu fortster It should
lie the duty of tho state forester un
cltr the direction of tho commission
to advise private owners in reference
to forest management to bring to pub-
lic attention the damage done by for-
est Ores to formulate nnd put Into
execution a firewarden system to pro-
tect the forests from fires to encour
nge more conservative systems of
lumbering and turpentining to Inves-
tigate tax and grating problems and
In general promote a healthy Interest
In foreBt presort atlon In the state
The forest Are problem In Florida
as la other southern states was found
to be a most serious hindrance to tho
perpetuation of the forests The
practice of burning over the ground
annually destroys all possibility of
a young growth of jilno to take the
place of the mature timber when It
Is cut fforcoor fires Injure he
standing timber especially Wuero the
tees have been boxed nnM destroy
the vegetable covering of tbo soil It
has been demonstrated that repeated
frcs decrease tho value of the forest
for1 grazing purposes
in order to check tho annual Are
evil the report proposes a forpot Ore
law for Florida which shall make It
tmtawfui nnd punishable Uy fine or
Imprisonment or both for any Indl
virtual or cprporatlon to start fires on
land not their own The proposed
law also makes every owner liable for
damages resjuJtlnS rpm Uu > Jsprjend of
lire from his own land to that of an-
other Th w are many other Impor
tant features In the proposed law
such as the appointment of firewar
dens the use Of Bpark arroBtcrs on
locomotives and engines and posting
of fire notices
The report furthermore recom-
mends the establishment of Btate for-
ests from tax lands and by purchase
ob has alredy been done by many
states In the country
lho forests of Florida havo lasted
longer than In many states perhaps
because the state has been more gen-
erously endowed with valuable
growth The need of forest preserva
tion has not bpen so apparent In the
vide for regeneration on landathathave
already been denuded Tho report
explains tho present situation In de
tall and points the way for a wiser
consideration In the future
The south with 27 per cent of the
total area of tho United States con-
tains about 42 per cent of tho total
Torest area of the country The for-
est nrea by states Is as follows Ala
bamn 20 000000 acres Arkansas 24
200000 Tlorlda 20 000000 Georgia
22300000 Kentucky 10000 000 Lou
isiana If lOOOOO Mnrylnnd 2 200
000 Mississippi 17500 000 North
Carolina 19000 000 South Carolina
12 000 COO Tennessee 15000 000
Texas 30000000 Virginia 14000
000 and West Virginia 9100000
The south It will be seen has still
much of the virgin forest of the
countiy This forest must be used
of couise In order to meot the steadily
expanding wants of the section It
must be used In such n manner how-
ever thnt the very most may be mado
from its annual cut while nt the
same time this cut Is being replaced
by new growth In this way Its tim-
ber will remain a source of perpetunl
wealth
Tho Importance of forest conserva
tlon to southern Interests Is clearly
understood by tho people of the south
The future of the south is more near-
ly bound up In the plan of forest pres
ervatfon with Its accompanying pro-
tection to watersheds power streams
nnd wood working Industries than Is
anything now before the people of
that part of the country Not only
Is tho portectlon of the watersheds
which wll some day furnish the pow-
er to run all manufacturing establish-
ments In the entire south an Impor-
tant matter to the south but the In-
dustries depending upon the forest
products will also be benefited by the
protection tbrown about the remain-
Ing timbered area
Poor Woman
I am so sorry for Mrs Fllte says
the lady with the display of coral
rings She s so Unhappy since she
came iome from her summer trip
You know sho left hei husband at
homn all summer
Ah1 significantly breathes the
lady with the twodollar bnrette And
did lie carouse around and do things
he flhouldn tT These menj
Thais why shofs unhappy 1
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MYSTERIES OF NATURE
By George Frederick Wright
i a n ix d
1 Continent Tilted Up and Down
The level of lho ocean Is more con-
stant than that of tho land Tho ex-
panse of the ocean Is three times ns
great ns that of the land and Its
depth more than ten times ns groat
It nil the land should bo sunk In the
ocean It wouldraho the genernt v a
ter level only about 300 feet In
general we may say with perfect con
lldence that the ocean beds represent
portions of the caiths crust which
hate boen sinking from tho earliest
geological times while tho continents
represent tho3ej portions whkh with
many oscillations have on the whole
been rising It probably la not true
as Is often stated that tho areas of
land nndSvater have shifted places
In ast time so that continents were
found wuero tllp main ocean bedq
now He and oceans swept without In
terruptlon over tho continental areas
Still there Is the best of evidence that
largo portions of tlie existing con-
tinents were at various times below
the level of thesea
But while this Is true It seems
equally certain that during tho subsi-
dence of these areas below tho sea
level they existed either as shallow
water borders of the main continental
areas or as Internal seas Tor ex-
ample tho great depth of sedimentary
rocks which cover the Mississippi
basin extending from the Alleghony
mountains to the Rocky mountains
oro shallowwater deposits So shal-
low Indeed was tho water during long
periods that It was little more than a
swamp In which the vegetation that
formed the numerous seams of coal
could grow and flourish But the level
was not constant After a large ac-
cumulation ofvegetubte matter that
could be turned Into coal had taken
place there was a slight and very
gentle sinking of the whole area so
that mud and sand were brought In
from the neighboring higher lands to
form a complete covering for tho coal
so that when It vaa turned Into rock
pjist but those who understand thq t was able to protect It and presetvo
present condltlops In Florida and in It for future ages This process of
other states shouid bp olive to tho ne I slow but Irregular sinking of the Mis
ccsslty of taking some notion to cut J slsslppl basin Continued until thqu
wisely what foroBtS remain and pro
sands of feet of sedimentary material
had been washed Into it as the Mis
slsslppl ls carrying sediment Into the
Gulf of Mexlr at the present time
These successive strata llko the
leaves ot a book record the various
downward movements of tho long coal
period In other countries especially
In Knglund and China there is the
same tecord of long continued down-
ward mo > omenta of continental areas
Urlng tho coal period
It this downward movement hnd
rontlnued ulwass the coal would
have been Inaccessible beneath the
depths of the sea whetfl Indeed much
of It does still lemnln In Nova
Bcotla the best seams of coal aie
mined many miles nnd at a depth of
many hundred feet below the bottom
of the sea In Kngfand also somo of
tho best seams 6f coal are followed
out underneath the sea and It Is sup-
posed that coal veins are continuous
from southern Kngland to tho con-
tinent far beneath the bottom of
Dover stialt But fortunately the
downward motion ot the coal area wa3
In duo time arrested and the contrary
movement begun which has brought
this priceless material within easy
leach of men In the mountains of
Pennsylvania and China In tho hills
of Kngland and In the plateaux ot the
central and western states ot Amer-
ica Other Illustrations of great
< hanges In land levels nre too
numerous to he mentioned In detail
In Colorado there was a gradual sub-
sidence of land below sea level during
the carboniferous and cretaceons eras
until from 12000 to 15000 foot of
sediment bad accumulated over the
sinking area Dut at tha end of that
peilod the area began to rise and this
rise has continued until tho present
time when it stands many thousand
feet above tho level of the sea
Similar witness to such changes of
level Is borne by extensive sediment-
ary rocks containing abundant sea
shells of late geological age which are
found at a height ot 10000 feet above
the sea on the Pyrenees the Alps and
the Caucasus mountains and at a
height of 14000 feet upon tho moun
tains of central Asia A map ot the
eastern continent during the early
part of the tertiary period shows n
great Mediterranean sea covering all
central Europe and extending Into
Asia submerging the highlands of
Thibet and most of the mountains of
Turkestan But that this was not n
ex-
plains the pthor lady He behaved soneral subsidence ct the continents
liimsor nnd she was so Id hopes sha ls yLd onJ H ° S 5e Bimvla fact that
might have a chance to get a divorce i lese Breas are covcred wtn sedlmen
this fall Life i strata If mud and sand and
gravol are deposited In water there
muBt bo somo area not far awny from
which they could bo derived
Whllo theso general facts concern-
ing changes In land level In ancient
geological times beyond all question
aro Very Impiesslvc less attention
than they merit has beert given to
the tacts showing that corresponding
changes ale still going on nnd have
produced striking results within re-
cent times and point to Interesting
conclusions with lefcrcnco to the fu-
ture In connection with the glacial
period which is the most recent of all
the geological epochs theBe changes
of level aro very evident and connect
themselves with tho early history of
mankind At tho close of the tertiary
period which culminated In the
glacial era the central nnd northern
part of North America stood at a
level of 2000 or 3000 feet above that
It at present occupies Ihls Is proved
by the existence of Innumerable chan-
nels now deeply burled by glacial de-
bris or extending out Into tho ocean
act oss tho shallow submerged shelf
of tho continent both upon the Atlan-
tic und Pacific coasts In Illinois In
Ohio nnd In central New York these
burled channels ac found down he
low sea level showing that tho land
must have been very much elevated
to allow the streams which crossed
these rocky gorges to make theli way
to the sea fiom these distant inland
points Tho cities of Cleveland O
nd Syracuse N Y nro built over
such burled gorges Tho Delaware
tho Hudson and the St Lawrence
rivers then emptied Into the sou run
nlng through deep gorges or canyons
which crossed a level coastal plain
Tho fiords ofGieenland and ot Nor-
way and of tho Pacific coast of North
America bear similar testimony since
they probably In most cases mark
the lines ot ancient rivers which
coursed through them to the sea when
the land was so much elevated that
what are now the bottoms of these
channels were occupied by rushing
mountaintorrents In short these
Holds nre drowned river valleys
Hut at tho close ot the glacial period
thp land levels In nil this northern
region wero much lower than nt the
present time On tho southern coast
of Kow England sea beaches were
thrown up about fifty feet higher than
those which nre fmined pow Along
the southern shore of Maine the land
had sunk bo much that sea shells are
found In clay deposits 250 feet above
the present sea level 1 he Champlnlo
and St Lawience valley was so much
depressed that whales sported In Salt-
water over tho site of Mlddlebury col
lege Vcimont and Beals ventured Into
nji arm of the sea extending far up
Into tho Ottawa liver while at Mon-
treal modem sea shells are found 500
feet nbovo present tide water upon
the top of the mountain which gives
the cty Its name Going farther
north the Indications are that upon
the shores of the Arctic sea post
glacial subsidence amounted to 1000
feet Everywhere across the continent
there Is cumulative evidence thnt this
postglacial subsidence was as exten-
sive as tho glaciated region and that
It Increased In amount from south to
north This Is a very Important con-
sideration to be kept in mind In work
Ing out glacial and post glacial prob-
lems This diffeientlal northerly de
pression at the close of the glacial
period caused the great lal s to flow
at first Into the Otta n rlyei across
Lako Nlppisslng over the site of
North bay Into the Mattawny river
and so Into the Ottawa along the line
through which the Canadian govern-
ment Is talking of building a ship
canal and which is already utilized by
the Canadian Pacific railroad This
pass Is now less than 100 feet above
the level ot the lakes
CopulKlit by Joseph Tt Bowles
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Well he was awny up on the bat-
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Habermacher, J. C. Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 30, 1909, newspaper, September 30, 1909; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth111810/m1/6/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .