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and about ten small sawmills are now operating betweent the 37th 



degree and the Fire Islands, a strip about 1 ,300 miles long. The 



article suggests that it would be advisable for "limibermen who 



have already done some logging themselves in the States" to look 



over the opportunities in Argentina. 



S. J. R. 



Argentina's Export and Import Trade. By Max Rothkugel. American 

 Lumberman, Jan. 16, 1915, p. 40. 



In the rather hilly coimtry of Southern 



Logging Brazil, the forests of this particular opera- 



in tion, are principally of Parana pine and a 



Brazil little hardwood — Imbuia and Canella. The 



stands nm about 7,000 to 8,000 feet per acre, 



and 16-foot logs scale about three to the thousand feet. 



The logs are taken out by steam skidders and a railroad. The 

 camps consist of both houses and cars. The crews are native 

 Brazilians, Russians and Poles. 



Topographic maps of the holdings are made and the railroads 

 are laid out with transit by a man kept for the purpose. Con- 

 siderable details of equipment, costs, upkeep and methods used, are 

 included in the article. 



O. L. S. 



Lumber Trade Journal. November, 1914. 



It is commonly thought that the Hawaiian 



Hawaiian Islands are devoid of native merchantable 



Forests timber; this idea is due to lack of develop- 



micnt which is prevented by expense of 



logging and manufacturing the native hardwoods. The forests 



are distinctly tropical, no pines, firs, spruces, oaks or maples. 



There is, however, one representative each of Sophora, Sapindus and 



of Zanthoxylum and two of Acacia. Koa, one of the two principal 



species, belongs to the last-mentioned genus. There are five 



distinct types: pure stands of Ohia-lehua, Koa, Mamane, Kukui; 



and mixed forests which contain Koa, Koaia, Kopiko, Kolea, Naio 



and Pua. Koa and Ohia are the two of commercial saw-timber 



importance. 



The Ohia-lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) comprises nearly 

 three-fourths of the native forests. It forms pure forests in the 



