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When I last saw you I intimated the opinion, that we would be compelled to adopt
measures to insure a sufficient supply of firewood and counteract the
desperation manifested around to extort unreasonable prices from the young men.
I suggested the propriety of authorizing the bursar to employ college servants
during the vacation and at other times, when unemployed on the Campus in cutting
old, decayed and decaying trees from our own lands, and supplying the students
to such an extent as to give tone to the market, with corded wood at reasonable
prices. You are aware that frequent trespasses have been and are constantly
being committed by adjoining proprietors and squatters, against which scarcely
any vigilance can protect us. It seems to me that we had better sell wood to
students at fair prices, than suffer it to be carried off by plunderers. I
incline to the opinion that we may very properly cut all the timber within a few
feet of our line, around