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THE FORESTER. 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



The importation of wood pulp into 

 Italy is greatly on the increase. 



A Vancouver timber merchant has 

 just made the first importation of Aus- 

 tralian hardwood into British Columbia. 



John Crowe, a forest ranger in the 

 Rat Portage District of Ontario, was re- 

 cently drowned in the Mimikon River 

 in that province. 



One and one-quarter million square 

 miles is the estimate of the timber area 

 of Canada, as given by the U. S. consul 

 general at Montreal. 



One of the most valuable timber trees 

 in the great Northwest, the Red Cedar, 

 grows to a maximum height of 300 feet 

 and a diameter of 14 feet. 



Norway supplied Great Britain with 

 twice as much ground wood pulp last 

 year as the United States, Canada, Swe- 

 den and Holland combined. 



Immense Spruce forests will be opened 

 to commercial development by the ex- 

 tension of the Atlantic & Lake Supe- 

 rior Railway to Gaspe Basin, Quebec. 



Paper shingles have been introduced 

 into Japan by an enterprising Tokyo 

 firm as substitutes for the wooden article. 

 The new idea is a slab of thick-tarred 

 pasteboard, more easily managed than 

 ordinary shingles and costing only half 

 as much. 



Some historical trees have lately come 

 into the New York lumber market from 

 the Wilderness battlefield of the Civil 

 War. The bills of lading showed that 

 the trees had been felled and the lumber 

 sawed there. In some of the planks 

 the minie balls can be seen plainly, 

 the wood directly adjacent to the bullets 

 being discolored or rotten, but not 

 enough to damage the lumber. 



While the display of forest products 

 which Canada will send to the Paris 

 Exposition of 1900 will include every- 

 thing from the tree to the semi-finished 

 product, it is the intention of the special 

 commissioner to give attention also to 

 recent exports of wood manufactures. 



A bureau of forestry has been estab- 

 lished in connection with the Canadian 

 Department of Interior, and has been 

 placed in charge of Elihu Stewart, for- 

 mer mayor of Collingwood, a Dominion 

 land surveyor, who has made a special 

 study of the various woods of that sec- 

 tion during the past twenty years, and 

 has often acted as arbitrator in forest 

 matters. 



The possibilities of a lucrative export 

 trade in Tamarack between Canada and 

 Great Britain received something of a 

 setback in this reply from the Imperial 

 Institute of London in answer to inqui- 

 ries from the Dominion : "Gum of any 

 kind is practically unknown in England, 

 gum-chewers being confined to Canada 

 and the United States." But there is 

 said to be a good demand for tamarack 

 for medicinal purposes, so that some 

 samples will go abroad at any rate. 



The portion of the State of Washing- 

 ton west of the summit of the Cascade 

 range is covered with the heaviest con- 

 tinuous belt of forest growth in the 

 United States. This forest extends over 

 the slopes of the Cascade and Coast 

 ranges, and occupies the entire drift 

 plain surrounding the waters of Puget 

 Sound. Excepting the highest moun- 

 tain peaks and the sand dunes of the 

 coast, which are treeless, the valleys of 

 the Cowlitz and Chehalis Rivers, which 

 are dotted with small Oaks and other 

 deciduous trees, and the stunted Yellow 

 Pines occupying with open growth the 

 barren Steilacoom plain, all of western 

 Washington is covered with a magnifi- 

 cent forest. 



