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the use of this department. There are three 

 wood lots in wliit-li different methods of treat- 

 ment are demonstrated. In these pieces of tim- 

 ber the student has actual practice in determin- 

 ing the growth of trees, making valuation sur- 

 veys, thinning of timber and other features of 

 forestry worl< such as the recognition of species, 

 habits, habitats and so forth. There are tive 

 acres devoted to a forest nursery where thou- 

 sands of coniferous and deciduous seedlings are 

 grown every year. The student becomes experi- 

 enced in the different phases and methods of 

 nursery practice. Plants of suitable size are 

 allowed each student for his personal use. The 

 student learns how to collect and store forest 

 tree seeds and makes and stores cuttings of trees 

 that are best propagated in that manner. Sulfi- 

 cient practice is given with the camera and in 

 the dark room to enable the student to make 

 photographs suitable for the Illustration of for- 

 estry work. The student has enough practice 

 with the transit so that he is able to locate 

 boundaries, determine grades and perform the 

 work of an ordinary surveyor. Topographic 

 drawling is a valuable feature of the work, as it 

 enables the student to put upon paper a suit- 

 able map of his field determinations. 



Every student candidate for a degree chooses 

 a subject for special investigation on which a 

 thesis is prepared and placed on file in the de- 

 partment. 



The instruction is given by lectures, laboratory 

 and field work, bulletins, reports, current litera- 

 ture, and text books. 



An interesting and proper feature of the work 

 is a trip that is taken by the combined junior 

 and senior classes each alternate year. The trip 

 covers nearly 500 miles, and visits are made to 

 forestry plantations, furniture and other wood- 

 working factories, alcohol plants, iron smelting 

 works where charcoal is used, lumber and logging 

 camps, pulp and paper mills, and other places 

 of interest to foresters. 



The graduates of this department have entered 

 into forestry work before or soon after gradua- 

 tion. The opportunities for engagement in for- 

 estry pursuits seem to be on the increase. The 

 field for private work is always open and some of 

 the graduates have engaged in it. Others are 

 employed by private parties or companies. The 

 "United States Forest Service may appoint such 

 men as pass the examination. 



Whether or not a man should study forestry 

 ■depends upon the man. If he is sure he would 

 like the work, and is willing to make the neces- 

 sary preparation there are as good chances for 

 success in this as in other similar occupations. 



The Fourth in a Mexican Liunher Town. 



Chihuahua, Mex., July 1. — The seven or 

 eight hundred Americans in the new lumber 

 town of Medera are preparing to pull off a big 

 Fourth of July celebration that will be about the 

 liveliest event in the state that day. Broncho 

 busting, steer roping, horse racing, baseball and 

 a big ball at night will be the principal attrac- 

 tions. The Sierra Madre & Pacific railroad, in 

 connection with the Chihuahua & Pacific, has ar- 

 ranged a train schedule so that those from Chi- 

 huahua who attend can leave here on the night 

 of the 3d and get back on the afternoon of 

 the 5th. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Edwards-Fair Lumber Company of Wis- 

 consin has incorporated at Little Rock, Ark., 

 with W. A. Fair of Lansing as agent, and a 

 capital of $50,000. 



The Texas Planing Mill & Manufacturing 

 Company has been organized at Fort Worth, 

 Tex., with a capital stock of $50,000. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company's yards at 

 Denver, Colo., were damaged considerably on 

 the morning of July 2 by fire of unknown origin. 

 The loss was about $150,000. 



The l*rewitt-Spurr .Manufacturing Company of 

 Nashville has decided to add a hardwood floor- 

 ing department to its plant. A building for the 

 purpose will be erected and all necessary ma- 

 chinery installed. About $111,000 will be in- 

 vested. 



t)wing to overproduction of spruce lumber the 

 rtangor i.Me.) mills may shut down for a time 

 in .fuly. Logs cost as much as they did last 

 year and labor is as high or higher, so that 

 there has been no reduction in the cost of pro- 

 ducing lumber : still buyers are hanging off with 

 the hope that prices will fall. The price on 

 wide spruce is $2 to $4 lower than a year ago 

 and Penobscot mill men claim that no further 

 reduction can be made without wiping out profit 

 entirely. 



The Beck-Keithley Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Little Rock, Ark., with a capital 

 stock of $20,000, 



F. L. Keister of Bowling Green, Ky., is en- 

 larging his planing mill and adding new machin- 

 ery for the making of high-class furniture. 



Winsboro, La., is soon to have another in- 

 dustry in the shape of a pole and shaft, factory. 

 Hickory will be the wood used, and about fifty 

 men will be employed, 



J. H. Marsh of Oshkosh, Wis., is already com- 



mencing to contract for his supply of Christmas 

 trees for next winter. He handles about 20,000 

 every season and buys the stumpage in June or 

 July. In Forest county, Wisconsin, he finds 

 the finest trees for his purpose, having heavy 

 foliage and beauty of coloring such as are 

 requisites in a pretty Christmas tree. 



The Shelby Lumber & Land Company has been 

 incorporated at Little Rock, Ark., capitalized at 

 $25,000. C. W. White Is state agent. 



Hardy & Cole are completing the installation 

 of a plant and mill at Gainesville, Ark., and 

 will at once begin the manufacture of hickory 

 handles. 



Smith, Garbut »& Co.'s large sawmill near 

 Lyons, Ga., was destroyed by fire lately, entail- 

 ing a loss of $100,000. 



The Wausau Box & Lumber Company of 

 Wausau, Wis., recently burned down. The plant 

 was the property of C. E. Turner and W. B, 

 Schofield, who will rebuild it. 



The Elmira Veneered Door Company has been 

 formed at Elmira, N. T., to make lumber, wood- 

 working machinery and woodwork ; it is capi- 

 talized at $40,000. 



The New Rochelle Woodworking Company has 

 been organized at New Rochelle, N. Y., with a 

 capitalization of $15,000. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago, 



E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., the big saw manu- 

 facturers of Indianapolis, are sending out to 

 their friends a handsome little announcement 

 inviting them to make themselves entirely at 

 home in the company's Norfolk olBce while at- 

 tending the Jamestown Exposition. Robert B. 

 Nixon is in charge and will place desks, station- 

 ery, stenographer and all the conveniences of the 

 office at the disposal of guests. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago is at- 

 tacking the Chicago city ordinance passed June 

 24, prohibiting the accumulation or storage of 

 shavings or sawdust in any quantity exceeding 

 3,000 pounds within the city limits. The asso- 

 ciation has pointed out that this measure virtu- 

 ally prohibits conducting a woodworking plant, 

 which will often accumulate several thousand 

 pounds of offal within an hour's time. It is 

 hoped that the ordinance will be repealed. 



In accordance with a provision of the last 

 legislature of Kentucky a contract has been 

 made with the Forest Service for a forest survey 

 of that state, including a complete map showing 

 the location of timber, descriptions of the vari 

 ous varieties, an estimate of the amount stand- 

 ing in dlft'erent counties, study of logging meth- 

 ods with a view of prolonging the producing 

 power of timber lands, a study of forest fires, 

 their causes and effects, and the various mar- 

 kets for Kentucky timber products. The im- 

 provement of the state's timber lands will be 

 recommended, and the passing of a law for their 

 protection. 



Frank B. Stone, with his wife and children, 

 is spending the month of July in seeing the 

 sights of Alaska and Yellowstone Park. 



John r. Wiborg of Cincinnati, of the well- 

 known house, the Wiborg & Hanna Company, 

 was a Chicago visitor several days last week. 



Fire which the police attribute to the dis- 

 charge of fireworks destroyed the plant of the 

 Smith Woodworking Company. 5332 to 5340 Ar- 

 mour avenue. July 4, causing a loss estimated 

 at $20,000. Smoldering paper or lighted punk 

 dropped in a pile of shavings at 6 o'clock in the 

 evening started the blaze. 



The National Wagon Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, of which E. W. McCullough is secretary, 

 has moved its oflices to rooms 417-19 Home In- 

 surance building, Chicago. 



The first annual tournament of the Lumber- 

 men's Golf Association of Chicago occurred 



Tuesday, June 25, on the golf grounds of the 

 Glen View Club near Evanston. Percy F. Stone 

 of Rockford, 111., won the challenge cup pre- 

 sented by the American Lumberman, which will 

 be his until the next tournament, a year from 

 now, when he will be compelled to defend it in 

 order to retain the title of lumber golf cham- 

 pion of the Middle West as well as the cup 

 itself. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago has 

 entered the opposition forces which are arrayed 

 against the Chicago Telephone Company in its 

 proposition to put through an ordinance pro- 

 viding for measured telephone service through- 

 out the city. At a recent meeting the organiza- 

 tion passed resolutions protesting against the 

 renewal of the company's franchise, and re- 

 quested that the Manufacturers' Telephone Com- 

 pany be given favorable consideration by the 

 city authorities. 



A meeting of the car stake equipment com- 

 plaint committee was held at the offices of Wal- 

 ter W. Ross, its attorney in Chicago, this week, 

 and brought a number of distinguished lumber- 

 men visitors to the city, among them F. R. 

 Babcock and J. M. Hastings of Pittsburg. E. F. 

 Perry of New York, George K. Smith of St. 

 Louis, C. A. Doty of Doty, Wash., A. W. Seeley 

 of Saginaw, Mich. : O. O. Agler and L. L. Barth 

 of Chicago were also present. The Interstate 

 Commerce Commission will hear the car stake 

 matter Oct. 16. 



D. W. Briggs of the Briggs & Cooper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., Saginaw, Mich., was a visitor to this 

 market last week. The company also has an 

 office in Memphis. 



H. C. Atkins, president of E. C. Atkins & Co.. 

 Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., was recently in Chicago 

 on business. 



Francis Beidler of the well-known house of 

 Francis Beidler & Co. left on June 21 for a 

 lengthy tour of Europe. His family accom- 

 panied him and they expect to spend three or 

 four months abroad. 



I. Stephenson. Jr.. manager of the Ludington, 

 Wells & Van Schaick Lumber Company, of Lud- 

 ington, La., spent a short time in the city last 

 week, en route home from New York, where he 

 had been to receive his family on their return 

 from a European trip. 



George Sawyer, a well-known lumberman of 

 Helena. Ark., called upon a number of his Chi- 

 cago friends recently relative to the timber busi- 

 ness in which he is interested. 



