The forester. 



Vol. V. 



APRIL, 1899. 



No. 4. 



News Items. 



Timber is being furnished from Or- 

 egon forests to be used in the construc- 

 tion of a Russian railroad in China. 



A paper mill, to cost $600,000, [ s to 

 be erected at White Rapids, on the 

 Menominee River, upper Michigan, this 

 year. 



reports the cutting of a big Pine tree 

 which was 51 inches in diameter, and 

 which cut 10,000 feet. The butt log 

 scaled 2,240 feet. 



Cedar logs have been exhumed in New 

 Jersey which geologists affirm are fully 

 4,000 years old. They are in perfect 

 condition. 



We wish to call attention to an error 

 of proof reading in the March number of 

 The Forester, in which, on page 54, 

 the names Red Fir and Yellow Fir 

 should have been used instead of Red 

 and Yellow Spruce. 



There are now thirty-five forest re- 

 serves. The aggregate area within the 

 boundaries of the land thus reserved is 



45>9 r 3,794 acres - 



The great pontoon bridge for the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 

 across the Mississippi River at Prairie du 

 Chien, Wis., was launched lately. It 

 absorbed in its construction 500,000 feet 



of Washington Fir. 



The surveyor general of the Minneap- 

 olis district, Minnesota, estimated that 

 the cut of logs on the upper Mississippi 

 River would be, this season, not far from 

 600,000,000 feet. 



The Forester is under obligations to 

 the American Lumberman, of Chicago, 

 through whose kindness it is enabled 

 to produce several of the illustrations 

 which appear in this issue. 



The world's supply of timber bids fair 

 to last for many years yet. It is stated 

 that in the Province of Archangel, in 

 Russia, there are forests belonging to the 

 Government which cover 88,970,400 

 acres in which the ring of the woodman's 

 axe has scarcely yet been heard. 



A walnut tree was cut down on the 

 Woods farm in Wabash County, Indiana, 

 says the Indiana Farmer, which was 

 nine feet in circumference at the base 

 and sixty feet to the first limb. 



The German Government has been 

 purchasing Puget Sound Fir decking for 

 its new war vessels. One ship recently 

 took 1,200,000 feet of decking for Ham- 

 burg and other shipments were to follow. 

 Heavy purchases have also been made 

 for the same purpose by Philadelphia 

 ship yards. 



Mr. Elwood Mead, who for ten years 

 past has been State Engineer of Wyom- 

 ing, has resigned to accept a position as 

 Irrigation Expert in charge of investiga- 

 tions in the Department of Agriculture. 



W. J. Hoover, of Hoover & Slavin's 

 lumber camps, near Glen Campbell, Pa., 



Labor has been in great demand in 

 the lumber camps of Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin and Minnesota during the past winter. 

 Common laborers have received as 

 high as $35.00 per month, while skilled 

 woodsmen have commanded higher 

 wages than they have been able to do 

 for many years. 



