The Great Northern Railway Company has under consider- 

 ation a project calling for the construction of a line from Ake- 

 ley on the Great Northern to Warroad on the Canadian North- 

 ern, and running through Itasca State Park. A large part 

 of the proposed line has already been graded by logging roads, 

 and it is said local capital is ready to aid in the construc- 

 tion of the line. If the Great Northern will not build the road 

 the Canadian Northern has promised to look into the project. 



There is 300,000,000 feet of fine white pine timber around 

 Red Lake which will be tributary to the proposed line, which 

 will also traverse one of the richest agricultural tracts in the 

 state. 



The Red River Lumber Company has a logging road run- 

 ning from Akeley to within two miles of -Douglas lodge in 

 Itasca State Park. It also built a road from Shelvin south 

 to within seven miles of the state park. The rails on this 

 line have been taken up but the grade is still there. Thus it 

 would take only nine miles of grading to connect the two 

 lines and touch the north and west ends of Lake Itasca/ 



Lumbermen of Spokane are seriously considering the adop- 

 tion of the wireless telegraph as an effective aid in fighting 

 forest fires in the Pacific Northwest. On the success of a 

 test to be made this spring by the Marconi company in one 

 of the forests near Spokane hangs the future of the wireless 

 as a means of fire fighting. 



Special apparatus will be placed on the trails used by the 

 forest rangers who will carry emergency serials to be strung 

 between two high trees at any point in the woods. By this 

 means it is proposed to have reported to the central station 

 any incipient blazes, so that fire fighting squads may be 

 rushed to the scene in time to prevent the fire from gaining 

 any headway. 



Turpentine from Western yellow pine, says the Department 

 of Agriculture, can be put to the same -uses as that from the 

 long-leaf pine of the Southeast, which furnishes the bulk of 

 the turpentine of commerce. Western yellow, pine forms enor- 

 mous forests in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast states, 



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