Between His Terms As Governor Of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot Advocates For The Purchase Of Forests

GIFFORD PINCHOT (1865-1946). Pinchot was an American forester and politician. He was the first Head of the United States Forest Service and a two-time Governor of Pennsylvania. TLS. 2pgs. October 18, 1928. Milford Pike County, Pennsylvania. A typed letter signed “Gifford Pinchot”. On his personal letterhead, Pinchot wrote to the manager of the Easton Car & Construction Company, trying to persuade him to vote in favor of a proposed Pennsylvania bond issue for the purchase of forest lands: “…As a businessman you undoubtedly realize that no industry can be carried on without wood…We Pennsylvanians are in genuine danger of having this essential resource fail us. As a nation we are using five or six times as much wood as we are growing. As a State we put more timber yearly into the anthracite mines alone that the whole of Pennsylvania produces. It is costing us in Pennsylvania more than one hundred million dollars a year to buy from other States the wood that we could grow and ought to grow right here at home…I hope you will vote for the Forest Bond Issue, and get your friends to vote for it. There is nothing Pennsylvania needs more…”. At the time of writing, Pinchot was between his two terms as Governor of Pennsylvania and had already completed his major forestry work. In fine condition with a “received” stamp on each of the two pages.