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Unique Timber Pictures. 



The llAiiitwiti'i" Iii:ii)ui) is indebted to .Tubu II 

 Talge of tbe Talge Maho^^any Company. Indian- 

 apolis, for the unique timber picture.s appearing 

 on this page. The first picture is that of a 

 cypress tree at Chapultepec. Mexico. It is 

 thought that this tree is of different botany than 

 the American species : there is, however, a cypre s 

 tree at (.'hapultepec of the same variety as that 

 growing a'ong the (Julf coast cf the I'nited 

 States, which at the time of the i^panish inva- 

 sion of ITi^o was known as the "Cypress of 

 Montezuma." being then forty feet in diameter 

 and 120 feet in height. 



The second picture is that of the giant vine- 

 like tree known as amati. While this t:ee be- 

 gins as a creeper, as it grows the various stems 

 graft themselves into each other until it be- 

 comes a great open-work tree. 



The small picture in the center of the pase 

 illustrates the primitive method of sawing timber 

 pursued by the natives in Tabasco, Me^.. the 

 province which produces su<-h fine mahogany. 



The fourth picture is that of an immense 

 cypress tree near Oaxaca. Mex.. which, whi'e not 

 of great height, has a circumference of 146 feet. 

 It is doubtless one of the largest an:l oldest 

 known trees in the world. 



The last picture of the g.oup is from a pho- 



tograph Mr, Talge obtained in Liverpool, show- 

 ing the largest African mahogany crotch that 

 has ever been cut and imported. The log was 

 fourteen feet in length and nine feet actual depth 

 at crotch end. It measured 2,719 feet board 

 measure, and its weight was seven and a half 

 ton.s. 



Lumber for Holland. 



Official reports fiom Amsterdam. Holland, 

 indicate that the year 1906 was not a good 

 one with regard to the timber trade there, 

 importers having large stocks on hand and 

 contracts for further delivery, which tended to 

 greatly dull the market. The building trade 

 was practically at a standstill because of 

 financial difficulties of a large house with 

 mortgaged buildings and land, and the high 

 rate of money, which restricted building. The 

 first of the year contracting was lively, but 

 with the end of the spring season consumption 

 was dull and large holdings in first hands led 

 to a great falling off in imports. Balks from 

 northern Kurope were offered later on in large 

 quantities, and prices sank even lower. Still, 

 northern European exporters could not place 



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their unsold goods. Prices continued to fall 

 and balks are now to be had at figures below 

 any known for a long time. Later in the year 

 prices advanced for lumber to be delivered 

 f. o. w. 19D7. as Germany and other neighbor- 

 ing countries bought large stocks, but im- 

 porters in Amsterdam held back, having large 

 left-overs from f. o. w. 1906 and summer 

 stocks. Low prices for balks make it possible 

 tf" produce lumber at a lower figure here than 

 that at which ready sawn lumber Irom Sweden 

 can be bought. 



Pitch pine from the United States has been 

 imported in greatly reduced quantities, as the 

 exceedingly high prices asked by exporters 

 cannot be obtained. Very often the wood is 

 replaced by prime north Russia redwood. 

 Prices for American hardwoods increased dur- 



AMATI TREE OF MEXICO. 



ing tbe last year, which has had the effect of 

 stocking the market with more east European 

 hardwoods than formerly. Prime plain white 

 oak from the States rose in price about $8 per 

 thousand feet. So-called oak car-bottom stock 

 is in good demand, and offers are wanted for 

 good material to be delivered promptly, and 

 later on. The quality of American ash and 

 h.ickory imported into Holland last year was so 

 poor that only low prices were forthcoming; 

 at present there is some call for good stock. 

 Poplar and black walnut logs are in request 

 and should bring good prices. Cypress has 

 given good satisfaction, so that further busi- 

 ness in this lumber is looked for. 



Large Plant Burned. 



The excelsiir mill of the Michigan Veneer 

 Company at Alpena. Mich., was destroyed by 

 fire .Inly i;i. entailing a loss of about $20.00lt. 

 with ii;4.00u insurance, mostly on the mill — ^very 

 little on the wood. The mill proper, engine 

 room, warehouse, dry kiln, many wood piles and 

 large quantities of baled excelsior were all burned 

 up in a remarkably short space of time. Only 

 the boiler room and two or three piles of wood 

 remain. The fire started about tJ p. m., when all 

 the workmen had gone, and spread rapidly, get- 

 ting a good stai-t in the interifu- of the mill 



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