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Rh. United States Forestry Service, Oregon Woolgrowers' Association. As a result of the Forestry Board's efforts many localities have already been reforested, about six thousand miles of telephone constructed and put in order, lookout stations equipped and hundreds of patrolmen and lookout men placed in charge at strategic points during the months when fires are most common. In consequence of the progress made in forestry conservation, the board has announced that the income from our forests will increase fifty per cent annually.

The Woman Suffrage Movement. The Apostle of Equal Suffrage. Since the beginning of the territorial days, there has been no effort in Oregon for the success of any movement marked by more indomitable persistency than that which finally resulted in conferring on women the right to vote at all elections. Though at all times loyally assisted by many men and women, the credit for this triumph is universally given to Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, who, in 1871, began the publication of the New Northwest, a weekly journal devoted to the dissemination of trenchant arguments supporting the justice of the demands for equal suffrage. In 1873, Mrs. Duniway was instrumental in organizing the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, which inaugurated a campaign for equal suffrage that was waged with undiminished enthusiasm through many defeats until its success in November 1912.

Initiative Amendment for Equal Suffrage Carries. Through all these intervening years Mrs. Duniway was very active with pen and voice in spreading: the gospel of equal suffrage, and made scores of speaking campaigns in adjoining states and territories as well as in the eastern section of the United States. In the earlier days of Oregon's history it required the approval of two legislatures before a proposed amendment to the state constitution could be submitted to