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HARDWOOD RECORD 



General View Saw Mill and Lumber Yard o 



VIEW IN ANDERSON IJTMBER YARD AT 

 SniTTH BOARDMAN. 



ONE OP THE WHITE MAPLE DRYING 

 SHEDS AT SOUTH BOARDMAN. 



siilercil the best timber of all the rhii family, 

 fur its elasticity and toughness make it well 

 adapted to heavy agricultural implement 

 work, wheel stocks, hames, railway ties, sills, 

 bridge timbers and axe handles. 



It is especially esteemed in shi])biiilding, 

 and its value has always been greatly appre- 

 ciated by foreign boatbuihlers wlio have, to 

 a very large extent, exhausted the best 

 growth. 



Black Ash. 

 Fraxinus nigra. 



H!;uk ash is of the olive family. In height 

 it rajiges from thirty to one hundred feet. 

 The tree is found farther north than any 

 other of the American ashes. It is essentially 

 a twamp growth, as it reaches its highest de- 

 velopment in damp soil. Even in the ranges 

 of growth known as black ash sections this 

 tree rarely constitutes ten per cent of the 

 forest, and usually its distribution is very 

 scattering. The species is becoming scarce 

 and its complete extinction in the United 

 States as an original forest growth is Tast 

 approaching. 



As an instance of its intolerance of other 

 forest trees a white pine and black ash were 

 recently seen struggling for existence side by 

 side, and while the ash thrived the entire 

 foliage of the pine nearest it was blasted 

 as tliough stricken with fire. The pine, ap- 

 parently in an effort to escape the proximity, 

 bad leaned away from its neighbor to an 

 angle of fully fifteen degrees, but still it 

 had suffered from the manifest poison ex- 

 haled by the ash. 



CLEAR THICK GRAY 

 YARDS. SOUTH I 



SAWMILL AND CORNI 

 WEXFORD LUMBER CC 



