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THE FORESTER. 



August, 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



Experiments being made for utilizing 

 sawdust indicate a commercial success. 



It is estimated that forty per cent of 

 all tin- White Pine lumber manufactured 

 in this country is used for boxes. 



In some parts of Russia the only food 

 for the people consists at present of 

 acorns, leaves and the soft bark of trees. 



The Argentine Republic, which has 

 no timber of any account, imported last 

 year 48 million feet of White Pine, 68 

 million feet of Spruce, and 88 million 

 feet of Pitch Pine. 



W. H. Mills, of San Francisco, has 

 been appointed honorary expert in the 

 Forestry and Fisheries Department of 

 the Paris Exposition of 1900 by U. S. 

 Commissioner-General Peck. 



A Canadian expert in forestry, John 

 Durkin, died last month at the General 

 Hospital in Toronto. He was 57 years 

 of age, and was an official in the woods 

 and forests branch of the Ontario Crown 

 Lands Department. 



Thirty-two thousand acres of timber- 

 lands in Raleigh County, West Va., 

 were bought two weeks ago by the Bow- 

 man Lumber Company of Williamsport, 

 Pa., their total holdings now being 

 65,000 acres, all contiguous. 



Forest fires in the vicinity of Lyon 

 Mountain, near Plattsburg, N. Y., sev- 

 eral weeks ago drove game of all kinds 

 to the clearings, and, in some instances, 

 into the village. Deer, bear and wild- 

 cats were seen almost daily. 



Paris contains more trees than any 

 city in the world. These trees are prin- 

 cipally of three kinds the Chestnut and 

 Acacia, such as line the Champs Elysees, 

 and the Lime tree, which grows in such 

 abundance in the Bois de Boulogne and 

 on certain of the outer boulevards. 



A marked illustration of changed con- 

 ditions in the Saginaw Valley, Michigan, 

 is shown by the reduced shipments by 

 water from that locality. A few years 

 ago ninety per cent of the mill product 

 went out by water, a single season's ship- 

 ment once aggregating 858 million feet. 

 Last year the total amount was barely 

 go million feet. 



A heavy purchase of timberland was 

 made last month when Michigan capital- 

 ists bought large timber holdings near 

 San Bernardino, Cal. The property 

 comprises 6,000 acres of Pine land, a 

 sawmill of 50,000 feet daily capacity and 

 a box factory with similar capacity. The 

 standing timber on the purchased land 

 aggregates 82,000 feet. 



On account of the high prices of cot- 

 tonwood a Memphis firm, one of the 

 largest box manufacturing concerns in 

 this country, has decided to try gum 

 in a number of its boxes. It is found 

 that the gum can be well dried, so that 

 there is no odor whatever about it, and a 

 fairly clear surface for lettering is 

 afforded. 



The sale of the hardwood timber on 

 the Menominee Indian reservation has 

 been abandoned. The law providing 

 for the sale of timber on reservations 

 specifically names Pine, but does not 

 mention hardwood, and it is therefore 

 believed that the Indian Commissioner 

 has no authority to sell it without in- 

 structions from Congress. 



Cuba increased its purchases of lum- 

 ber from the United States nearly three- 

 fold during the first four months of the 

 year, the shipments during that time of 

 year being valued at $607,563 as against 

 $258,076 during the corresponding 

 period of last year. The difference is 

 expected to be still greater later in the 

 year, for it will be less difficult, after the 

 hurricane season is passed, to secure 

 vessels for West Indian voyages. 



