THE FORESTER. 



February, 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



In Australia there is said to be a Gum 

 tree which is 415 feet in height. 



lege in Mississippi, have been divided 

 among six lumber firms for utilizing the 

 timber resources. 



English dealers have placed in New 

 York an order for five million feet of 

 White Oak in the log. 



The Pan-American Exposition at Buf- 

 falo, N. Y., is about contracting for 10,- 

 000,000 feet of Yellow Pine. 



The lumber trade of the Pacific Coast, 

 from British Columbia to Mexico, during 

 the past year, has been summed up as 

 "the best one in the history of the lum- 

 ber trade of the coast." 



Puerto Rico and the Isle of Pines, Cuba, 

 are the prospective field of a lumber com- 

 pany incorporated in New Jersey. 



A deed to 6000 acres of Pine land, 

 bought at $2.50 an acre, has been filed in 

 the County Clerk's office at Nacogdoches, 

 Texas. 



The cutting of two of Pennsylvania's 

 largest Pine trees recently turned out from 

 one tree seven i6-footand one lo-foot log, 

 which scaled 6528 feet, B. M., and from 

 the other eight 1 6-foot logs scaling 7642 

 feet. 



The great advance in lumber prices is 

 said to have increased the cost of building 

 an ordinary wooden freight car from $800 

 to over $1000. 



Timber tracts in Potter county, Penn- 

 sylvania, which could have been bought 

 five years ago for from two to five dollars 

 per acre have been sold during the past 

 six months at prices from four to five times 

 the previous figures. 



Press reports say many lumbermen are 

 beginning to worry because snow has not 

 fallen in sufficient quantity to expedite 

 their operations in the woods. 



A firm of Mississippi lumbermen lately 

 sold the right to turpentine their Pine 

 timber to a Savannah (Ga.) firm for $30,- 

 ooo cash and one-fourth of the profits. 



If printing paper of all kinds should be 

 put on the free list, advises a contemporary, 

 doubtless a large area of Spruce forests 

 would be preserved for future use and 

 bring to the* present owners a handsome 

 profit in the years to come. 



The cut of the Minneapolis sawmills for 

 1899 reached a total of 550 million feet, cl- 

 one-sixth greater than the preceding year, 

 though the cut of that year was also a 

 record-breaker. 



Great Britain is not showing any great 

 degree of enthusiasm, it is said, in pre- 

 paring a timber exhibit for the Paris Ex- 

 position. This is hardly to be marveled 

 at, however, when the anti-English atti- 

 tude of France is considered. 



The cargo of shingles from the lost 

 Canadian steamer Niagara, w 7 hich went 

 down about sixty miles from Buffalo last 

 December, is still scattered along the 

 Canadian shore where they were carried 

 by the waves. 



A million and a half Yellow Willow cut- 

 tings have been purchased by the Santa Fe 

 Railroad Company to be planted on both 

 sides of an embankment west of Stockton, 

 Cal., for a distance of eight miles, to pro- 

 tect the embankment from damage by 

 floods. 



The recently sold timber lands of the 

 Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 



A large Sugar Pine tree has been felled 

 in the McCloud river district in California, 

 from which a plank 3 ft. thick, 12 ft. 

 wide and 30 ft. long will be cut for the 





