Show TIMBER reservation the tha globe democrat puts down the yearly product of tile timber wealth of the united states at over a a billion dollars it says bays that now nou hero luero else on larth earth to is the wealth of tile the foiest wasted more wantonly than in this eju country that last certainly Is true and it la Is a mighty mistake on the part ot of tile americans they ought to be guarding the woods at the heads or of the 1 streams anti and when the large trees are cut tho the second growth ought to be nurtured in order to hold the alie snows in the spring as long as possible to pi event the heavy spring hoods floods and in order to equalize the atmosphere lit in a measure there are large laree areas along alone the shores ot of tho the mediterranean areas of 0 borren barren solids sands which when the world was young were as productive spots as existed on oft all the earths surface sur tace but they hey havo have been turned into deserts because the tha people paid no attention to their for ests eels they let them lo 10 cut away the winter rains came down with a rush arid and then the country in tho the late summer was parched and tills this his has been going on until very ninny many ot of the streams have been dried up and thel their r channels lost and the ground losing losin g the moisture becomes EL a deserts desert and some such process seems to be at snork v ork in the united states in nothing else do tile the people of ft this country show their utter disregard for the full essentials of civilization as in the handling of oc their timber areas and they will mill have to pay for it one 0 of these days in barren holds fields and in failing clops in unreasonable deluges de lit in tho the spring and destructive droughts in the autumn lind and as tho the years go on it if tills this Is not remedied slowly the desert will encroach upon the fields aud and we shall have repeated upon this side what Is seen in a thousand spots on oa the mediterranean |