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It is but natural that the himbermen should turn to wood preser- 

 vation as a means of marketing grades and species which are not 

 in active demand untreated. A recent and one of the first appli- 

 cations of this policy is found in the case of the St. Paul & Tacoma 

 Lumber Co., of Tacoma, Wash., which is erecting a new creosoting 

 plant to be operated in connection with their mills at Tacoma. 

 Another new cross-tie treating plant is under construction at St. 

 Helens, Oregon. 



White Pine as the king of lumber woods has been looked upon 

 as a timber of fast declining prominence, and it is unquestionably 

 true that the best and most accessible White Pine is gone. The 

 advertising campaign which the lumbermen are now engaged in 

 along various lines presents the present White Pine situation in a 

 somewhat new light in the little leaflet called "The Pine Cone," 

 published by a half dozen white pine manufacturers in Minnesota. 

 It would hardly seem necessary to give much publicity to White 

 Pine, because its value is known to all consumers and the buyer 

 was educated to use it years ago. While the pamphlet tells many 

 interesting things in regard to White Pine manufacture and indi- 

 cates that considerable quantities are still available, there is ap- 

 parently no effort being made to perpetuate any of the forests in 

 which the loggers are now operating. In the manufacture of 

 White Pine, this year's report of the Northern Pine Manufac- 

 turers' Association shows the production in 191 1 of 1,223,132,000 

 feet, which is an increase of 227,000,000 feet, or nearly 17%, over 

 1910. This is probably the result of demand rather than of avail- 

 able supply. 



While on the subject of White Pine, it is worth while to call at- 

 tention to a note in the American Lumberman of April 20, in 

 regard to the felling by the Potlatch Lumber Co. of the largest 

 White Pine tree in the Idaho country. While this tree was not 

 a Pinus strobus, the note regarding this particular Western White 

 Pine is interesting in that it states that the tree was 207 feet high, 

 6 feet 9 inches in diameter, and 425 years old. The mill scale 

 showed a volume of 29,800 board feet. While it seemed like a 

 sacrilege to cut such a tree, it is stated that it was deteriorating, 

 and having lost the protection of the surrounding forest, would 



