Show I s the tue lY Forests re ts g is contemplating an en n en- o much more prodigious than thun the thiS Chicago drainage canal or the Ito underground subways n mb of or Now York It Jt is estimated that In what Is called the lie district the property loss on account of Hoods boils during tho the month of March of the present year rear amounted to the gigantic sum of or and this thib vast total does not Include a particle of ot the enormous losses from Hoods on the Ohio below Pittsburg Tho The destruction by the Hoods floods from to Cairo grow more snore extensive o year ear b by year eal and Pittsburgh Pittsburg's burgs burg's er very existence is threat threat- C ened ii ed The fill watershed o of the Allegheny I and Monongahela ri rivet rivers ls covers eo an area arpa of more than OOOO square miles once virgin forest now noi h u iv i h. h f r u if 1 ren ten of trees The destruction of or grow grow- ing Ins timber In this r region glon occasions the i disastrous Hoods floods below belo It Is com coin computed fluted that to restore o the forests will require tho the planting of ot trees which would not be ho effective until un un- til II 15 y years urs have hav elapsed cd It Is proposed to secure legislation conserving ln the lie forests forets and then proc proceed pro pro- c ed to plant tre trees in the places now barren ron over o a territory more than one-half one the area ca of 01 the state of J. J Zen Ken enck en- en tuck tucky ck It II l means l ans vast expense and stupendous labor sanor but out In iii the tue end it I would amount to enormous saving for 01 or Hoods are become annual vl visitors and more d disastrous I over every year ear |