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now cutting timber under plans prepared 

 by the Division, while plans have been 

 made and accepted for over 100,000 acres 

 in the Adirondack region alone. 



will be some demand for Maine lumber 

 for shipment to Porto Rico and Cuba. 



It is estimated by Wisconsin lumber- 

 men that this winter's cut will exceed 

 former years by anywhere from 100,000,- 

 000 to 150, 000,000 feet. The wages that 

 will be paid this winter for chopping are 

 placed at about $215,000 per month, and 

 from 2,000 to 3,000 more men will in all 

 probability be employed this year in the 

 woods about the head of the lakes than 

 last year. 



The Government has been buying 

 some timber and lumber for use in Cuba. 

 The creosoted lumber called for in the 

 bids is to be used for a wharf at Triscor- 

 nio, a village of 500 inhabitants on the 

 shore of the harbor of Havana. The 

 wharf will be between 300 and 400 feet 

 in length, insuring thirty feet of water, 

 sufficient for large steamers. The tim- 

 ber is subjected to its treatment of cre- 

 osote to enable it to resist the ravages of 

 the teredo worm. 



Lumbering in Northern Michigan and 

 on the upper peninsula has been at its 

 height, and thousands of men have been 

 plying the axe with vigor. Skilled 

 woodsmen have held out for $24 to 

 $26 per month, and even when the op- 

 erators decided to pay these prices it was 

 hard to secure men enough to recruit the 

 crews to the desired number. Two 

 years ago wages in the woods ran from 

 $14 to $18 per month. 



There is a good demand for log scalers 

 on the headwaters of the Mississippi, in 

 northern Minnesota. This must either 

 be due to an unusually large amount of 

 logging going on in that district, or else 

 scalers of experience have suddenly be- 

 come very scarce. It has even been 

 said that this scarcity may affect the log 

 cut the coming winter. 



The shipments of lumber from Ban- 

 gor, Me., this year are reported to be 

 about 35,000,000 feet less than the ag- 

 gregate amount shipped last year. This 

 is said to have been in a great measure 

 due to the war. It is hoped that there 



Representative Bromwell, of Ohio, has 

 introduced a bill in Congress to grant 

 salvage for logs found adrift in navigable 

 waters of the United States. It pro- 

 vides that the owners of such logs shall 

 pay 25 cents each for logs less than 30 

 inches in diameter and 50 cents for logs 

 over 30 inches. Bunches of 50 logs, in 

 raft, are to cost the owner $5 in salvage, 

 and 10 cents for each log over that num- 

 ber is to be charged. 



An enthusiastic writer on a Mobile 

 newspaper says that "the forests of Ala- 

 bama are inexhaustible." This is a very 

 popular mistake and one that has been 

 made by others in a better position to 

 judge intelligently than are the editors 

 of secular newspapers. If the writer in 

 question had first known his neighboring 

 State, Georgia, had been practically 

 exhausted within a commercial period 

 scarcely exceeding a quarter century, 

 and that inroads upon forests are grow- 

 ing, not shrinking, he probably would 

 not have made that sort of statement, 

 especially as it is very clear that he 

 thereby could hope for no good to come 

 from it to his clientage. The Timberman. 



