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made its spring field trip to the operations 

 of the Coast Range Lumber Company at 

 Mabel, Oregon. A section of timber was 

 carefully cruised and mapped. Logging 

 operations for the area were planned. The 

 necessary railroad locations were made, 

 landings located, etc. In addition to do- 

 ing this work, the entire town site of the 

 i of Mabel was surveyed and mapped. 

 All this was practical work, which, when 

 completed, was turned over to the Coast 

 Range Lumber Company for its use. 



Practically every man connected with the 

 S >ol of Forestry has found summer em- 

 ployment, either with the Forest Service 

 or in the woods and mills of the Pacific 

 Northwest. The demand for labor is such 

 that the school has been unable to furnish 

 the men needed for various kinds of work. 



DEAN MOON OF SYRACUSE 

 FRANKLIN MOON has been elected 



Dean of the New York State College of 

 Forestry, at Syracuse, by the Board of 

 Trustees. By this action, one of the earli- 

 est members of the College of Forestry fac- 

 ulty becomes dean of the College, for 

 Dean Moon became Professor of Forest 

 Engineering in 1912, a few months after 

 the college was founded. Dean Moon was 

 graduated from Amherst College in 1901, 

 with degree of Bachelor of Arts. From 1902 

 to 1904, he was engaged in graduate study 

 at Harvard, and was for several years in 



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 of 172 feet. Shipment complete, ready to run. Can be quickly 

 moved to any endangered section by auto, pack horses or boat. 

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business life in New York City before he 

 decided to take up forestry, and in 1909 

 secured the degree of Master of Forestry 

 at Yale. During 1908 and 1909, he was 

 engaged in forest reconnaisance in Con- 

 necticut and for the Federal Forest Serv- 

 ice in Kentucky. For the next two years 

 forester for the New York State Forest, 

 Fish and Game Commission under Com- 

 missioner Whipple, having charge of the 

 Highlands of the Hudson Forest Reserva- 

 tion, the nucleus of what is now the Pali- 

 sades Interstate Park, the world's greatest 

 park. Prior to coming to Syracuse, Dean 

 Moon investigated forest conditions and 

 forestry practice in France, Germany and 

 Switzerland. He has written two noteworthy 

 forestry books, one a text-book for fores- 

 try students and the other a forestry book 

 for boys. He is one of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the New York State Forestry 

 Association, which has its headquarters in 

 Syracuse, and has been honored by election 

 to the honorary society Sigma XI and 

 Phi Kappa Phi. 



CREOSOTE OILS IN WOOD 



PRESERVATION 



T IGHT creosote oils properly injected 



into wood apparently will prevent decay 



until the wood wears out or until it checks 



so badly that the untreated portions are 



exposed. Such is the indication of service 

 records collected by the Forest Products 

 Laboratory on railway ties and telegraph 

 poles preserved with low boiling creosotes. 



The railroad ties so treated lasted from 

 15 to 20 years, and failure was traceable in 

 most cases to mechanical wear, such as 

 rail cutting and spike killing. In no case 

 was failure found to be the fault of the 

 preservative. 



Of 1,558 telegraph poles in the Mont- 

 gomery-New Orleans line, which were pres 

 sure-treated with a light creosote oil, 1,049 

 poles were still sound after 16 years. In 

 91 per cent of the cases of decay, the 

 fungi had entered the wood through checks 

 and shakes. Representative sections in the 

 Norfolk-Washington line showed that af- 

 ter 17 years' service, of the 1,614 poles in- 

 spected, 1,469 were sound, 92 decayed at 

 the top, and 105 decayed at the ground 

 line. The decay at the top was caused 

 chiefly by cutting off the poles. In those 

 decayed at the ground line, the causes r 

 failure, as determined in 88 per cent of the 

 cases, were checks or shakes. Here again 

 as in the ties, the preservative outlasted the 

 mechanical life of the wood. 



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