engineering- and chemistry as they 

 relate to the utilization and manu- 

 facture of by-products from wood. 

 A laboratory, smaller in size, but 

 designed along the lines of the For- 

 est Products Laboratory at Madison, 

 Wisconsin, would be a great step in 

 the right direction ; and the inclu- 

 sion in the senior year's work of a 

 six months' trip through the wood- 

 using factories of Michigan prob- 

 ably the most diversified of anv 

 State in the Union would be of 



immeasurable benefit. 



I have hastily dictated this letter 

 and it may not b? entirely logical 

 in sequence. T believe, however, that 

 it sets forth in sufficient detail the 

 points to which T desire to direct 

 attention. 



I hope you will understand, also, 

 that it is written entirely in a spirit 

 of suggestion, and not one of criti- 

 cism. 



H. S. SACKETT, 

 In charge of Wood Utilization. 



"Eucalypts That Grow in A Night, and 

 Last Forever" 



The following extract from th? 

 prospectus of a large .eucalyptus 

 company furnishes light and newsy 

 reading. Light is thrown upon the 

 proposition we are up against in try- 

 ing to keep the hard-earned money 

 of ministers and school teachers 

 safely at home. If the yield figures 

 are not newsy, there is no news in 

 California. At last we have a worthy 

 rival of the squab industry: 



We are planting 6x6 (1210 to 

 the acre) and anticipate losing by 

 cuPs, weaklings, etc., 50% of our 

 first planting, thus leaving growing 

 600 straight trees to the acre. Mul- 

 tiplying our total acreage, 800 acres, 

 by 600 trees per acre, and we have 

 growing 480,000 trees. When five 

 years old, under ideal conditions 

 such as we have, these trees will 

 have attained a height of 70 to 90 

 feet each and a diameter sufficiently 

 large that they may be ready to cut 

 for telegraph or telephone poles, 

 trolley poles and for kindred uses. 



The present market price of tele- 

 graph poles 45 feet lone- with a six- 

 inch diameter is $7 to $27 each. Mul- 

 tiplying our total number of trees. 

 480,000, by $7, and we have the total 

 gross of $3,360,000, nearly three and 

 one-half times the total capitaliza- 

 tion of the at par. 



Tn three years from the first cutting 

 the sprouts are ready to cut again, 



cutting three instead of one, 

 three times 480,000 trees, or 1,440,- 

 000. Selling these at same price of 

 $7 each, and we have a further gross 

 profit of $10,080,000, which, added to 

 our first cutting will give us a total 

 of $13,440,000, or over thirteen times 

 the total amount of our capitaliza- 

 tion in eight to ten years. And w 

 continue to cut every third year, cut 

 ting three times the amount of our 

 first product, for many, many years 

 to come. 



The trees, when grown for lum- 

 ber, require a few years longer to 

 acquire -sufficient height and diame- 

 ter ; but are many times more valu- 

 able. For example, a tree ten years 

 old should cut 104 feet (board meas- 

 ure and allowing one-fifth for saw- 

 cut arcl slab) at $140 per M..$14.;V> 

 Oil, cordwood and by-products 10.0:) 



Multiplying" 480,000 trees by above 

 valuation and we have the enormous 

 result of $10,788,800. And this in 

 ten years from o-ic cutting. Tn five 

 years the sprouts will be ready to 

 cut again for same purpose, and thre? 

 for one, giving a total of $32,366,400. 

 or a grand total in 15 years of 

 $43,155,200. 



Please make all cheques payabl ? 

 to me. C. STOW ELL SMITH. 



