Timber Gut in Grant Sufficient to Provide Boardwalk to Smith

THE traditional but still imaginary boardwalk between Dartmouth College at Hanover and Smith College at Northampton could become a reality if the hardwood lumber cut on the Dartmouth College Grant this past winter were made available for such a purpose.

According to Robert S. Monahan '29 College Forester, the Washburn Lumber Company has cut 3,750,000 board feet of mature timber at its four logging camps operated during the winter. This amount of timber is roughly equivalent to the wood needed to cover a boardwalk with two-inch plank, three feet wide, and 120 miles long. This would provide enough plank to cover the familiar 110-mile route between the two college towns and would leave enough wood for a connecting spur to Mount Holyoke College for those interested.

However, the yellow birch logs cut on the Grant are already being manufactured into furniture by the Beecher Falls Manufacturing Corporation and into plywood by Granite State Veneer, Inc., at North Stratford, N. H„ two of the largest industries in the Upper Connecticut Valley.

Stumpage receipts from timber cut on the College Grant are used to meet Dartmouth's financial needs, especially funds for scholarship aid.