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THE TREE DOCTOR 



million ties from Japan, at fifty-five cents each, to use in the line 

 that he is constructing in Mexico? 



We are told that Japan has "vast areas of forests." How 

 "vast" on an island scarcely visible on the map? With the mod- 

 ern equipment for destroying forests, and converting the trees 

 into "lumber," how many years will the timber of Japan supply 

 the market? 



CONSUMPTION OF LUMBER BY THE RAILROADS. 



In the report of the American Forest Congress, already 

 quoted, is a part of the speech of Howard Elliott, President of 

 the Northern Pacific Railway, from which I make the following 

 extract : "The total annual consumption of cross-ties, for re- 

 newals only, by all the railroads of the United States, is at least 

 one hundred million, to which add twenty million for additional 

 tracks in yards and the construction of new railroads and the 

 total is equivalent to more than four billion feet. The signifi- 



PhocO 195, Gingko Tree. 



