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($2.00) per thousand feet log scale for all timber ; not less than 

 twenty-five (25) cents, nor more than one dollar ($1.00) per 

 cord for all bolts, pulp wood, cord wood or bark; and not less 

 than ten (10) per cent, nor more than fifty (50) per cent, of 

 the full cash value of other forest products cut and removed 

 from such land. 



Sec. 3. In case any person fails to properly pile and burn the 

 tops and refuse, the state board of forestry may, in its discretion, 

 cause the same to be done, and the expense thereof shall be a lien 

 on the timber or other forest product cut from the land on which 

 the tops and refuse are situated or cut, and shall also be a lien 

 upon the land itself. Proceedings for the enforcement of such 

 lien shall be instituted by the district attorney of the county in 

 which the cutting was done, at the request of the state board of 

 forestry and in the name of the state of Wisconsin as claimant; 

 and costs shall be recovered in the usual manner. The claim for 

 any lien shall be filed by the state fire warden, or under his di- 

 rection by any of his assistants, inspectors, assistant inspectors, 

 patrol or fire wardens, in the district in which the expense oc- 

 curred, in the office of the clerk of the district court, in the 

 county in which the claim arose. 



At Mount Union, Pa., the Pennsylvania Railroad has put into 

 effect another feature of its comprehensive forest policy. Late 

 in 1908 ground was broken there for a one-cylinder treating 

 plant, equipped to impregnate with creosote, zinc chloride or any 

 other standard processes, 1,500 ties per 24 hour day. The track 

 lay out for the plant is completed and the storage of ties is well 

 under way. Five tracks, 76 feet apart have been laid and be- 

 tween them there is room for 500,000 ties piled 7x1. The plant 

 will be in operation by May, 1909. In addition to its regulation 

 equipment there will be installed a 3-tie cylinder for experimental 

 use. Mount Union is located in a region which will produce quan- 

 tities of red oak, maple, gum and beech ties for years. The oil 

 for the treating plant has been contracted for and it will be de- 

 livered from Europe to Greenwich Point, Philadelphia, in tank 

 steamers which will discharge their cargoes directly into two 

 500,000 gallon tanks which are being erected. Tank cars will 

 carry the oil thence to Mt. Union. In connection with the experi- 

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