Abraham Lincoln and constitutional government by Ulrich Bartow A. (Bartow Adolphus) 1840-

Author:Ulrich, Bartow A. (Bartow Adolphus), 1840-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Presidents, Constitutional law
Publisher: London : J.M. Ouseley
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

forests iiave been under an extensive forest administration for more than lOO years. They are gridironed with roads and trails and fire Hnes. which have been gradually developed through a long series of years. We are following the same general system in this country on a much larger scale, but of course we cannot hope to get anywhere near the same efficiency until the country is more fully developed.

"When we succeed in getting our agricultural land—strips scattered throughout the forests—settled and a large number of people in the forests utilizing them, we are not only going to have a better utilization of agricultural areas, but the forests will also be better protected."

Asked if there is as much litter on the ground in Prussian forests as there is in the forests of the United States, Mr. Graves replied in the negative.

In many states forests of incalculable value have been permitted by the local government to be destroyed by forest fires. Private parties owning large timber tracts have cut down the forests, leaving large barren surfaces. These should have been replanted, the same as is now done by the order of the German states in Germany, but the states where they are located here have allowed these tracts to remain destitute of trees, and the result has been that it has brought about a scarcity of rain, which has been disastrous not only to the state where the mischief originated, but to the adjoining states, which could not interfere.

MR. H. S. S.\CKETT, CONSULTING TIMBER ENGINEER, CHICAGO, ILL., CONTRIBUTES THE FOLLOWING ON FOREST TAXATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE LAWS.

Timber lands are taxed today under the general property tax in every State and continental Territory of the United States, generally in exactly the same manner as other kinds of wealth. In only twelve States is any special consideration given to timber lands in the tax laws. (Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island. Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. Four other States nilinois, Kansas, Minnesota, and Wyoming) make provision for boimties for timber planting and cultivation, though these bounties have no connection with the taxation of the land or trees. Two States, CMassachusetts and Vermont) included, however, in the first group mentioned above, attempt to encourage the planting and cultivation of trees by offering j)rizcs, without any reference to taxation. In all of the other thirty States and in the two Territories timber lands receive no special consideration.

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