News and Views of the Woods 



The largest white pine known, twenty miles from Moscow, 

 Idaho, and property of Potlach Lumber company, was recent- 

 ly cut. It was 207 feet high, 42.1 years old, and scaled 29,800 

 feet. 



THK Soo Line has put four fire-fighting locomotives on 

 its system, two at Ashland and two at Superior. Steam 

 railway locomotives have proved efficient as fire-fighters. 

 The apparatus consists of pumps and hose attached to 

 switching engines. Usually, when the system is installed, 

 the yards are divided into districts, numbered as are fire 

 alarm boxes in cities. 



APPROVAL of the sale of standing timber on 100 tracts, 

 extending from Cook county to Red lake, has been 

 given by the state timber board. This is timber on 

 land that has either been burned over or timber that is down 

 or about to go down in windfalls. 



According to estimates of timber cruisers there is about 

 50,000,000 feet, board measure, of white and Norway pine, 

 valued at $6 to $10 per thousand feet, and 50,000,000 feet of 

 mixed timber, valued at $2 to $5 per thousand. 



The timber will be sold at public auction at the State 

 Capitol at 10 a. in., October 25. Its total value is estimated 

 at about $:':.(, IMMI. 



ACCORDING to compilations made by J. F. Funk, in 

 charge of the mineral department in the office of the 

 state auditor, the shipments of ore from state mines 

 this year will approximate 1,500,000 tons, or 400,000 tons more 

 than the maximum shipment, which was recorded in 1910 as 

 1,100,000 tons. 



This means that the permanent school and university funds 



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