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Montana. The schedule of compensation is taken from the Montana 

 law. 



There are two plans of insurance incorporated in the act. One 

 provides for a State insurance department, to be headed by a commis- 

 sion of three men, and in addition a manager. The other plan permits 

 employers to carry their own insurance after they have posted with 

 the State a surety bond to cover the payroll, if such a sum is demanded 

 to guarantee the payment of claims. 



Liberal provision is made for medical attendance, and also for the 

 safety of workmen. Employers may maintain their own hospital fund, 

 to which employes must contribute $1 per month. The law goes into 

 effect July 1, 1917. 



The California Legislature has gone on record as favoring the 

 enactment of laws by Congress to permit the cutting of ripe timber 

 in the National Forests of California, and the use of the money thus 

 realized for the purpose of financing flood-control projects. 



There are supposed to be 106,000,000,000 feet of ripe merchantable 

 timber in- the various National Forests in California, and it is esti- 

 mated that the revenue from this would be more than $200,000,000. 

 More than 50 per cent of this timber is close to good transportation 

 facilities, and instead of being an unnecessary loss it could be made 

 into lumber and put to beneficial use under the plan proposed. 



The storage reservoirs for impounding the flood waters in the 

 State could be constructed for $100,000,000. 



Under the proposed plan, the State would manage the funds, and 

 they would be used for flood control and reclamation purposes. 



A process to utilize mill waste by distilling has been developed to 

 commercial issue -by Dr. J. G. Davidson, of the University of British 

 Columbia. By means of this process tar, a light oil, acetate of lime 

 and charcoal are formed. The gas produced by distillation is carried 

 through a pipe 9 inches in diameter and 20 feet long. In this pipe is 

 an electrically charged wire, which causes precipitation of the heavy 

 particles of tar. The tar, 40 gallons for each cord of wood distilled, 

 is of medium consistency and immediately marketable. The light oil, 

 obtained in a water condenser, is immediately marketable for use in ore 

 refining, and the yield is 12 gallons to the cord of wood. Eighty 

 pounds of acetate of lime are obtained from the pyroligneous acid of 



