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THE FORESTER. 



September, 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



India-rubber heels on shoes, decreas- 

 ing the fatigue of marching, will be 

 adopted, it is said, by the French army. 



Port Blakely, Wash., recently sent a 

 steamer laden with three million feet of 

 lumber to Taku and Woosung, China. 



In parts of South x\merica where Ma- 

 hogany is used for railroad ties and other 

 ordinary uses, the native business men 

 are said to prize the cheap Hemlock and 

 Pine boards which are sent in the form 

 of boxes and crates from this country. 



The hardwoods in the vicinity of Cad- 

 illac, Mich., are estimated at eleven bil- 

 lion feet, of exceptionally fine quality. 



Notwithstanding a law to prevent the 

 pollution of streams by mill refuse, the 

 Ottawa River is reported to be filled 

 with sawdust. 



At the Paris Exposition of 1900 the 

 Canadian exhibit of forestry will be 

 under the supervision of J. M. Macoun, 

 of Ottawa. A complete collection of 

 native woods will be shown. 



A large quantity of standing timber, 

 including Elm, Basswood, White and 

 Red Oak, Sycamore, Whitewood, Birch 

 and Soft Maple, in Ontario, has been 

 sold to a syndicate to manufacture for 

 export to British markets. 



North Africa claimed a cargo of nearly 

 half a million feet of Canadian lumber 

 in the beginning of the month, four-fifths 

 of it going to Tunis and the remainder 

 to Morocco. Buenos Ayres took a cargo 

 even larger than the preceding. 



The distinction of having produced 

 the best quality of Cork White Pine ever 

 grown in North America is accorded 

 to the Cass River country, Michigan. 

 Since 1864 nearly a billion feet of logs 

 have been rafted down that river. 



Tamarack gum is being sought in 

 Canada by a patent medicine company 

 or use in its preparations. The tree 

 grows well in the highlands of new On- 

 tario, north of the height of land, but is 

 found only in swampy places i.i the older 

 part of that province. 



The Chinese propensity for decapita- 

 tion has manifested itself in an unusual 

 way recently. Li Hung Chang is re- 

 ported to be one of the leading promoters 

 of a huge lumber-mill project in China, 

 to give some of the forest monarchs the 

 coup-de-grac,e. 



A forest reserve is likely to be estab- 

 lished in the Lake Temagamingue dis- 

 trict of Ontario, as the result of a visit 

 by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. 

 A dense growth of White Pine exists all 

 around the shores of the lake greatly in 

 excess of what was previously known. 



The timber supply of Georgia has 

 been estimated by lumbermen of that 

 State as sufficient to last only nine years 

 at the present rate of sawing, 2,600,000 

 feet daily. The timber resources of the 

 State at present are placed at one and a 

 half million acres, calculated to saw 

 three thousand feet to the acre. 



The finest Spruce area in Canada, as it | 



is claimed to be, will be opened to de- J 



velopment by the new Restigouche & I 



Western Railway, which is now being I 



constructed. The line extends from f 

 Campbelllon, N. B., a distance of no 



miles to St. Leonards, on the St. John j 

 River, to a region hitherto inaccessible. 



Although Colorado has considerable \ 

 timber, it is of coarse quality, suitable > 

 only for the roughest uses. It is esti- 

 mated that four-fifths of the lumber and 

 timber used in the State is imported. 

 White Pine comes from Wisconsin and > 

 Minnesota, a large amount of Yellow Pine | 

 is used, while the products of Oregon [ 

 and Washington mills also finds a regu- I 

 lar market. 



