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An annual output of 17 million dollars is reported by the Census of 

 1910 from 283 sawmills ; 4 millions from nine Quebracho extract fac- 

 tories, and a capitalization of 8 millions for 100 forest-development 

 companies, with annual sales of 53^ million dollars. 



A stock company is being formed by Norwegian business men to 

 take over the well-known Reynolds Lumber Company, in Petrograd, 

 Russia. The name of the new company will be Edward Reynolds, Lim- 

 ited, and it will take over all the forest and other properties — sawmills, 

 lumber yards, etc. — belonging to the old firm. The purchase price is 

 $2,725,500. 



A decision of the Supreme Court of Washington in the case of 

 Carrie Sandberg vs. Cavanaugh Timber Company, on appeal, makes 

 the owner of property upon which a forest fire starts liable for damage 

 of a neighbor's property, no matter how the fire started and although 

 he used some effort, but not effective, to stop the fire. The complainant 

 lost her house by forest fire and the jury's award of $2,000 was sus- 

 tained. 



The North Coast Timber Company, of Tacoma, Wash., has a novel 

 logging-camp equipment which consists of a railroad train of 17 cars 

 with comfortable houses. Besides sleeping cars (11 by 42 feet), ac- 

 commodating each 16 men in steel bunks, and sitting-room space, there 

 are kitchen car, dining car, library car, bath and drying room, black- 

 smith and filing car. The whole plant is lighted by electricity and 

 steam heated. 



The proposed increase in grazing fees on the National Forests will 

 not take effect the coming season, although in general the fees charged 

 in 1917 were found still below the real value of the forage. Consider- 

 ations of war needs explains this decision. 



The plan to issue five or ten year permits, which would not be sub- 

 ject to reduction during the period for which they are issued except for 

 damage to the range or violation of their terms, will also be held in 

 abeyance. 



The demand for an increase in meat production and the necessity 

 for stocking the forest ranges to the extreme limit of safety makes the 

 issuance of such permits inadvisable, according to Mr. Cecil, since with 



