Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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JAMESTOWN'S HUNDRED ACRE LOT 569 A price of S8,250 (S6,250 for the land and $2,000 to satisfy the claims of those who had purchased the timber) was secured on a portion of the area and with splendid courage the Association undertook the purchase. In order to stop the cutting and to make the first payment on the land it was necessary to raise S3,000 in two weeks' time and this was done by means of a demand note. The signatures of forty or fifty interested citizens were secured and these people agreed to be responsible for the payment of the note. During the Slimmer vacation the siim of the note was raised. After school started in the fall, a city-wide canvass was organized through the schools whereby something over $4,000 was raised toward paying for the property. Early in 1914 the committee of the Association having in charge the raising of the funds to cancel the entire indebtedness, sug- gested a plan which is now being fol- lowed. The balance, it was agreed, .should be paid off on Arbor Day, 1916, at the latest. The balance should be apportioned definitely among the var- ious schools, Citizens Committee and Foreign Alumni. A definite amount was suggested for each group to raise and no uniformity in method of raising the money was recommended except that no further personal solicitation be resorted to. The ingenuity of the pupils of the school has done much toward making the raising of the final amount an assured thing. Entertain- ments, candy sales, collection and sale of old rubbers and bottles, and a dozen other methods have been used and on November 1, 1914, the debt had been reduced to $2,300. During the Spring of 1914 a Forester from the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University was called on for a lecture before the schools, and from time to time advice has been given on the handling of the
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MoBiLiz.^TioN OF Boy Scouts. THE TROOP HAS VOLUNTEERED TO T.\KE CHARGE OF A BRUSH-BURNING BEE ON THE HUNDRED-.^CRE LOT.

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