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THE FORESTER. 



June. 



and cut as wanted, at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 for track scales. 



as. a whole quarter section of ordinary- 

 unimproved Otoe County land. Plant 

 Walnuts." 



The forest area of all the British pos- 

 sessions in America is estimated at about 

 800,000,000 acres. The settler has cut 

 his way into the fringe of the vast wood- 

 land, but his depredations are nothing as 

 compared with the terrific scourge of fire 

 which has rampaged through it at dif- 

 ferent times. 



The historic White Pine forests of Penn- 

 sylvania are so near extinction that, ac- 

 cording to a careful estimate, the total 

 standing timber of this kind in the entire 

 State is barely 400 million feet. The 

 larger part of this timber is in five tracts, 

 the residue being in small and scattered 

 lots. 



All the White Oak timber on a tract of 

 50,000 acres, in Washington Count}', 

 Mississippi, about 140 miles south of 

 Memphis, Tenn , has been sold to a firm 

 in Vienna, Austria. There is much val- 

 uable timber of other kinds on the tract, 

 and the sale includes the White Oak 

 only. The money consideration is esti- 

 mated at $25,000 at the least, and pos- 

 sibly more than double this amount. 



Black Walnut has become so valuable 

 in Indiana that those who are cutting 

 timber of that kind there are exercising 

 great care and economy in the work. 

 Each tree is cut off at the root, in order 

 to save every bit of timber in the stump. 

 Lumber which was considered almost 

 worthless a few \ears ago is now being 

 worked into costly veneers. 



An unfortunate circumstance which re- 

 tards the advancement of irrigation plans 

 in the West is the inconstant interest of 

 a large part of the general public. There 

 has been found to be tumultuous interest 

 in the plan, as in 1873, after lack of water 

 has caused inconvenience and suffering. 

 Last year there was a sudden interest in 

 the water resources of the State. The re- 

 sult this year is said to depend largely 

 upon whether there will be "a good year" 

 or not. 



Los Angeles, Cal., gets its great elec- 

 tric power and electric lights from elec- 

 tricity generated by mountain streams, 

 eighty-five miles west of that city. About 

 40 or 50 per cent of the power generated 

 by the water wheel is carried the eighty- 

 five miles in the form of electrical energy. 

 This is a very high per cent to be ob- 

 tained from so long a line. 



In quoting the sale of the Black Wal- 

 nut grove at Cassopolis, Mich., from the 

 May Forester, the Conservative says : 

 " For forty years we have been actively 

 exhorting people to plant Walnuts in 

 Nebraska, and besides practicing what 

 we preach, we have several hundred fine 

 Black Walnut trees to show in demon- 

 stration of our theories. On a farm near 

 Dunbar we have nearly two hundred 

 trees, which will average five feet in cir- 

 cumference and are worth nearly as much 



A White Oak tree which was recently 

 cut down in Knox County, Ind., is said 

 to have been one of the largest of the 

 kind ever cut in that section. It meas- 

 ured eight feet four inches at the butt, 

 fifty-three inches at the small end, scaled 

 7,867 feet and made four twelve foot logs. 

 After being cut the tree was rolled to 

 White River, where it was loaded on a 

 barge. It was then taken to Mount Car- 

 mel, 111., rolled to side track and loaded 

 two logs to a car. The heart of each of 

 the logs was the size of a silver dollar. 



Six hundred million feet of standing 

 timber on the coast between Norfolk, Va. , 

 and Charleston, S. C. , has been acquired 

 by a new corporation, chartered under 

 the laws of Virginia, with the title of the 

 "Atlantic Coast LumberCompany." It is 

 legally authorized to do almost anything 

 in the timber and mineral line, and is 

 permitted by its charter to acquire one 

 million acres of land. It is said that it 

 will practically control the lumber trade 



