Annual report of the Massachusetts State Forest Commission . ? ?iiUl. ;%»*., V li^ikw^ ?>^.^-. View from the new fire tower at Fall River. Burned-over section in foreground, city of_FallRiver in the North slopes of Mount Gre.\l:)ck. Steep mountain slopes require tlR> piDtcrt ion ul ;i l(.ic-,i cover. 1915.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 108. 5 corporation will to any large extent assume to do what willhave so remote a return, and meantime large portions of theState are unused, — producing nothing, — and, like bad asso-ciates, are continually^ extending their evil influences. Thefurther
Annual report of the Massachusetts State Forest Commission . ? ?iiUl. ;%»*., V li^ikw^ ?>^.^-. View from the new fire tower at Fall River. Burned-over section in foreground, city of_FallRiver in the North slopes of Mount Gre.\l:)ck. Steep mountain slopes require tlR> piDtcrt ion ul ;i l(.ic-,i cover. 1915.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 108. 5 corporation will to any large extent assume to do what willhave so remote a return, and meantime large portions of theState are unused, — producing nothing, — and, like bad asso-ciates, are continually^ extending their evil influences. Thefurther and sufficing answer is that by such public methods weare securing a commodity in our midst which otherwise wemust import, at least in a very large degree, and at the sametime are setting a practical example for others to follow. Itis believed that in adopting this policy of creating State forestsand maintaining them financially the State w^ill realize in theend vastly more than the cost and the interest thereon. It is not pertinent to review in this report the laws or regu-lations of other States or countries, but it may be well to statethat the neighboring State of New York has acquired upwardsof
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