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01 his trees, which will ;;row up asain faster 

 than liefore. 



A warraoty deed is given with each tract 

 solil. accompanied l).v a policy of the California 

 Titli' Insurance & Trust Company 01 California, 

 Insuring the title. 



And here is another circular from the 

 same source: 



Another Circular from the Same Source 



The fiillciwing statements are compiled from 

 statistics of the I'nited States Government and 

 the Forestry Society of California; 



lillciWI.SO OF El'( ALVITLS-ilAHOGAXV TlMBEH. 



From Seedling to Sawmill in Ten Years. 



1.NVEST.MEXT. 



Two .and one half acres at $2.'50 .TG'-'.'i 



Pay.mexts. 



Cash down $250 



Fifteen monthly payments, .12.") each... X'5 



$625 



iNtVt.MK I MiM.MI \I IvESL'LT*. 



Ten years .fl8.750.00 



( iiic year 1,873.00 



Average. 



< inc month !|;i.')6.25 



( me day 5.1)0 



Ten acres, per day 20.0(1 



X. B. — The ahove is figuring lumher at $75 per 

 M feet — today's price in New York is $140 to 

 *2IMI per M feet for .Mahogany. This does not 

 take into consideration the increased prices of 

 hardwood, which are bound to come. 



I'he trees grow more rapidly from the stumps 

 than they do from the seedlings, as is natural, 

 and a grove eif/lit i/eari-t ohl from the stumps will 

 l>e at least as large as one tni i/cars ohl from 

 the seedlings. 



?"urther information by applying to .1. Chester 

 Hashrouck. North American Hardwood Timber 

 Company. Trinity Building. Ill Broadway, Xew 

 York. 



On receipt of this astounding literature 

 the editor addressed the following letter to 

 Henry S. Graves, chief forester of the 

 I'nited States Forest Service: 



Correspondence with Forester Graves 



CHTi ACO. .June l.^i, T.nil. 



Henry S. Graves. Ciiief Forester. U. S. Forest 

 Service. Washington. D. C. 



iJear Sir — Enclosed I hand you copy of a cir- 

 cular that is being issued by the North American 

 Hardwood Timber Company, at 111 Broadway. 

 New York. N. Y. 



I'ersonally. I regai'd various eucalyptus-grow- 

 ing companies as not confining themselves very 

 closely to the truth in regard to either the 

 <[uality or value of eucalyptus timber and lum- 

 ber, and entirely emotional when it comes to the 

 matter of the vast profits involved in the grow- 

 ing of eucalyptus. 



I wish that you might write me a line for 

 publication in Hardwood Record, either con- 

 curring in the alleged statistics of the United 

 States government, as shown in this circular, or 

 repudiating them. 



Also, if possible, kindly give me the address 

 of the Forestry Society of California or of its 

 oflicers. 



An early reply will be sincerely appreciated. 

 Very truly yours. Hardwood Retord. 



H. 11. Gibson. Editor. 



Mr. Graves' reply to the foregoing is here- 

 with reproduced: 



Washington. June 25. 1010. 

 Mr. II. H Gibson. Editor Hardwood Record, 

 Chicago. 



r>ear Sir — Your letter of .Tune 18 is received, 

 'the Department of Agriculture will probably 

 issue a statement before long alK>ut the claims 

 made by various eucalyptus-growing companies. 

 When this statement is ready I shall see that a 

 copy is sent to the Hardwood Record. The de- 

 partment has in course of publication a circular 

 on the utilization of California eucalypts, and 



Ibis circular will contain the only authorized 

 ligures on eucalyptus production and yield which 

 tile Forest Service has gathered. Some state- 

 ments, purporting to be authorized by the 

 Forest Service, issued by the Eucalyptus 

 Mahogany Growers. Incorporated, which is a 

 subsidiary corporation of the North American 

 ll:ir(lwoo<l Timber Compan.v, have been re- 

 pudiated, and the Service has requested this 

 company to withdraw from circulation one of 

 its circulars. 



The address of the Forestr.v Society of Cali- 

 fornia is 713 Delta Building, Los Angeles, Cal. ; 

 its iiresident is Abbott Kinney. I am informed, 

 on the authority of the State Forester of Cali- 

 fornia, that about sixty per cent of its members 

 are interested in commercial eucalyptus com- 

 panies. Ver.v truly yours. II. .S. (;raves,> 



Forester. 



At the same time a letter was written 

 to 'White Brothers, a leading hardwood lum 

 ber house of San Francisco, asking them 

 for some information on the sub.ieet of 

 eucalyptus. The followino- is tlieir rejily: 

 Opinions of Prominent California 

 Lumbermen 

 San Fkam isr... .lune :;ii. loiu. 

 IIardwoiid Record, 



Chicago. III. 



Gentlemen — Replying to yoiu- inquiry of June 

 l.*^ as to what we' know about Eucalyptus, would 

 state that we have never been able to procure 

 any merchantable eucalyptus lumber grown in 

 California. 



We handle ironbark, spotted gum. black butt, 

 etc.. all varieties of eucalyptus from Australia, 

 and carry it In sizes from 1x4" boards to 20x20" 

 timbers 40 ft. long. This lumber we sell from 

 .flOo to $123 per M ft. We estimate that the 

 age of the trees from which this lumber is cut 

 is from 00 to 150 years. We sell this almost 

 entirely for shipbuilding — that Is, the 1" for 

 sheathing and the 2", .3" and 4", etc.. for fenders, 

 and heavy timbers for keels, stems, stern posts, 

 rudder stocks, etc.. on the wooden steam schoon- 

 ers that are built on this Coast. 



We have never handled — in fact, have never 

 lieen able to secure — any merchantable stock in 

 California grown Eucalyptus. Yours very truly. 

 White Brothers. 



C. H. White. 



lender the same date the Record asked 

 •the Dieckmann Hardwood Company, another 

 important foreign and domestic cabinet 

 wood house of San FVancisco, to submit 

 such information as it had on the subject 

 of eucalyptus. Following is this concern 's 

 reply : 



San Francisco. Cal.. June 21, 1910. 

 Hardwood Record. 



355 Dearborn Street. Chicago. HI. 



Gentlemen — We have your favor of the 18lh 

 inst.. and shall be pleased to give you our 

 opinion regarding eucalyptus. We have had in- 

 (luiries for this kind of wood, but have reall.v 

 not been able to find it here in California grow- 

 ing in merchantable quantities. Some mills have 

 been able to bu.v a few logs and cut them up 

 into more or less defective lumber and veneers, 

 bul these mills have generall.v disposed of their 

 product locally. We have never handled it be- 

 cause, as we have said above, we have not been 

 able to get it. and it is no use trying to sell 

 something the suppl.v of which is doubtful or un- 

 certain. There is no doubt that the wood has 

 merit, being hard, attractive and resembling very 

 closely hickory and other white woods, but we 

 (Ind one ob.jection to it — that it runs very uneven 

 in color. Regarding its growing we would say 

 that so far all the companies that have under- 

 taken the culture of this tree have done so, in 

 our judgment, purely with the object of selling 

 stock, because we do not think that there is a 



single company which has any forests ready to 

 be cut and they are all depending principally on 

 the scarcit.v of other woods in ten or twenty 

 years from now in order to profitably dispose 

 of the wood that they are now planting. The 

 wood grows in California very well in certain 

 localities wiiere the soil is rich, moist and below 

 the snow level. Some of the species grow more 

 rapidly than others and, as far as we have 

 learned, there is reall.v only one which is well 

 adapted to the manufacture of lumber or veneers 

 because this species grows in round logs with 

 thin bark and is straight grained. 



DiECKiiANN Hardwood Company. 

 Per ,T. H. Dieckmann. 



There is little reason for discussing this 

 proposition further in Hakdwood Record. 

 That American hardwoods will be exhausted 

 in fourteen years is a ridiculous statement. 

 There is no commercial or botanical author- 

 ity for coupling the term eucalyptus with 

 nialiogany. The two woods bear no relation 

 to each other in any wav'. There is no au- 

 tliority of the Forest Service for most of 

 the statements made in these documents. 

 There is little doubt that eucalyptus is a 

 fast growing tree, but the wood has little 

 beauty and has none of the characteristics 

 of mahogany. It is a difficult wood to mill, 

 does not lend itself to ornamental finish as 

 its grain is involved, and in strength it is 

 not nearly the equal of hickory. The ve- 

 hicle and furniture people have made nu- 

 merous tests of the wood and regard it of 

 little value for their purposes. The durabil- 

 ity of the wood is an unknown quantity, but 

 the evidence of timber history is that every 

 fast growing wood also decays rapidly. The 

 indorsement of the Forest Society of Cali- 

 fornia cuts but litle figure, when it is known 

 that sixty per cent of the members of that 

 organization are interested in the promo- 

 tion of land sales. 



According to the literature of the Xorth 

 American Hardwood Timber Company, its 

 president is S, W. Bonsall, 32.5 Fifth ave- 

 nue, New York; its secretary, A. E, Van 

 Giesou of Upper Montclair, N. J.; its treas- 

 urer R, K. Walter, 350 Broadway, New 

 York. It also has a long list of other of- 

 ficials including chairman of Executive Com- 

 mittee, forester and field manager, directors, 

 legal counsellor, auditor, etc, who are all 

 equally unknown in lumber or reforestry 

 pursuits. 



It is safe advice to offer of any of these 

 eucalyptus-promoting companies that it is 

 best to secure a lot of additional informa- 

 tion of a reliable character concerning 

 eucalyptus before making any investments. 



Something of a Fisherman 



This is the time of year for fish stories. The 

 friends of Fred C. Bolman of the Perrine-Arm- 

 strong Company, Fort Wayne. Ind., are giving 

 him a little boost in connection with his eflforts 

 as a fisherman. Up-to-date he is regarded as 

 the champion flsb killer of all the Indiana lum- 

 bermen. Mr. Bolman was down on a trip to 

 southern Indiana a few days ago. and while vis- 

 iting Albert Starbuck, the well known hardwood 

 manufacturer of Petersburg, went out on a cruise 

 on the White river, where he spent two days. 

 During the trip he landed a fine specimen of 

 blue cat that weighed forty-seven and one-half 

 pounds when dead. 



