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Show Profiting by the disastrous experience which has practically stripped tho old'er settled States of their original magnificent magnifi-cent forests, tho Interior Department has set asldo 0000 squaro mlls of land In Alaska as a timber reserve. Lumber Lum-ber is an article of such scarcity In Alaska that theio has been Improvident Improvi-dent cutting of trees In tho timber belts for mining and building purposes. By establishing a system to ennblo the lumbermen to uso matured trees, without with-out destroying Immaturo growths, the forests mny bo so conserved ns to yield a continuing supply. |