Sometimes, of course, the careful, prudent boss may have two, three or a dozen cruisers, covering different fields of a vast forest section and, sometimes, virtually _trailing_ each other. In the latter case, the buyer seeks to use one cruiser’s estimate as a check on the other. In any event, however, the purchase or investment is usually made on the showing the cruisers have made. Now, this talk about timber, cruisers, etc., may be uninteresting to the reader. I sincerely hope, though, he will read it and follow me along the same lines a little further. My object is to show how wide of the truth--how unjustly or ignorantly wide of the truth--Mr. Hitchcock was when making the statement, which it has been repeatedly and reputably asserted he did make, to the effect that the legislation he sought would “affect only a few magazine publishers.” I have stated, and have given what I believe to be sound, valid reasons in support of the statement, that legislation of the nature, covered by his rider amendment ultimately--_and necessarily_--must be either annulled by the courts or be so broadened as to remove its special or class features. Of course, Mr. Hitchcock wanted--_and he still wants_--legislation of the nature indicated in that rider to become _operative law_. It is my belief he entertained such hope and desire when he asserted that an enactment of the character of his rider would “affect only a few magazine publishers.” At any rate, it was with such belief I introduced this division of our general subject. As previously stated, legislation of the character sought by Mr. Hitchcock cannot be enacted into operative law _without cutting down the consumption of wood pulp from thirty to fifty per cent_. Such a cut in consumption, I am here trying to show, cannot be made without affecting the earnings and lives of men--many thousands of men and families--who cannot even be imagined as of those “few magazine publishers.” When the stumpage owner decides to cut five, ten, fifty, a hundred or more thousand acres for milling, another gang of men--“road blazers”--is sent into the forest. If the transportation is to be by water, some river or smaller stream, these latter men select suitable roll-ways and boom yardages along the stream. From each of these they “blaze” or mark the trees and smaller growths to be felled and the obstructions to be removed in order to provide a haulage roadway--usually providing for both wagons and snow sleds or sledges. If the transportation is to be by rail, corresponding work is done, the roadways branching in from the forest to the rail sidings where the loading is to be done. Not infrequently “spur tracks” are blazed which sometimes run for miles into the forest away from the main line of the railway.