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and there are two papers dealing with logging conditions in 

 British Columbia. 



Other subjects dealt with are the Construction of Logging 

 Engine Fire Boxes ; Increased Life and Efficiency of Donkey 

 Boilers which are kept covered ; The Use of Three-Drum Don- 

 keys in Redwood Logging; The Part Played by Wire Rope 

 Makers in the Development of the Logging Industry; Causes of 

 Inefficient Service Charged to Wire Rope ; Gasoline Logging 

 Engines ; The Adaptation of Electric Energy to Logging and 

 How to Obtain the Best Results. There are also papers dealing 

 with the probability of the loggers becoming large users of 

 electric energy and the use of electric lighting in the camps. 



Overhead Cable- Way Systems are dealt with at considerable 

 length in no less than four admirable papers. The necessity of 

 railroads for the future development of the logging industry in 

 Montana is dealt with, and there are two good papers dealing with 

 the subject of Topographic Maps for the Laying Out or Logging 

 Railways. On the subject of Cable Locomotives on Steep Grades 

 there are two papers, and there is one dealing with Objections to 

 Compressed Air. The subject of keeping systematic logging camp 

 records is dealt with in an admirable fashion and shorter papers 

 deal with methods of increasing camp efficiency by the creation 

 of better sanitary conditions, etc. 



The subject of Personal Liability Legislation created consid- 

 erable discussion, as did also that of Forest Fire Legislation. 

 Timberland Taxation did not come in for its usual share of at- 

 tention. Other papers dealt with such subjects as the Need 

 for Uniform Methods of Grading Logs: The Charpitting of 

 Stumps ; The Profitable Utilization of By-Products of Camp and 

 Mill ; and the Development of Logged-Off Land. 



A. H. D. R. 



Timber Bonds. By T. S. McGrath. Chicago, 111. 1911. Pp. 

 504- 



This volume deals with a subject comparatively new in the 

 United States. Timber bonds were first issued in the country in 

 1902 by Southern lumbermen to provide funds for the develop- 

 ment of their property, which would not be callable at short notice 

 and which could be repaid as fast as the product offered as 



