CLARE E. HOFFMAN

4TH Dist. MICHIGAN FROM AGERE DO:

ALLEGAN, MICH.

Congress of the Gnited States
House of Representatives
Washington, B. C.

January 7, 1935.

Mr. Albert H. Graham,
424 S. O'Keefe St.,
Cassopolis, Michigan.

Dear Mr. Grahams

Your letter of January 4th is acknowledged.
I have had several others from prominent citizens in your com-
munity on this subject and wish there was something I could do
to relieve the situation, but apparently under all the facts
and circumstances there is nothing that can be done.

This morning I have talked with Mr. G. H.
Collingwood, Forester for the American Forestry Association and
formerly with the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture. Mr. Collingwood is a son-in-law of Honorable Frank
Cummings, late of Centreville, and from a personal standpoint as
well as a professional one is much interested in preserving New-
ton Woods.

He tells me that he has had the matter up with
the State Conservation Department and done everything that could
be done to preserve this tract of timber, but there is no way it
can be done unless some person or persons can be found who are
magnanimous enough to purchase it and make a present of it to the
State. It would not come within any of the forest programs being
carried on by State or National Governments.

I have also taken the matter up with the Forest
Service of the Department of Agriculture and expect to have some-
thing official in writing at an early date.

Yours very truly,