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THE FORESTER. 



March, 



CHIPS AND CLIPS. 



In Cuba there are seventeen million 

 acres of virgin forest. 



An ancient tree, of great local reputa- 

 tion, stands near the old ruined Abbey of 

 Almvick, in England. Tradition says 

 that " under it the gallant Hotspur once 

 drew up his men." 



ical Survey for hyclrographic work in 

 California. It will also cooperate with 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture in 

 its investigations of irrigation. 



J. B. Thoburn, formerly connected with 

 the editorial management of THE FORES- 

 TER, is now associate editor of the Home, 

 Field and Forum, published in Okla- 

 homa City, Oklahoma. 



One of the largest sawing contracts ever 

 made is announced from Wisconsin, where 

 a firm has contracted to saw three hundred 

 million feet of Pine. It is estimated that 

 ten years will be necessary to complete the 

 work. 



A lot of very choice Poplar sawed in 

 West Virginia, in 1880, when a portable 

 saw-mill was at hand, and stored away 

 since then, was brought into the market 

 lately with other stocks which had been 

 hauled 35 miles for shipment. 



A reviewer of last year's lumber trade 

 calls attention to the fact that the extraor- 

 dinary demand caused the seeking out ol 

 many sources of supply hitherto consid- 

 ered unavailable because of the expense 

 of taking out the timber, while last year's 

 prices caused the sale of groves and shade 

 trees that had been held and guarded foi 

 over a century. 



In order to prevent American competi- 

 tion, the lumber and shingle men of Brit- 

 ish Columbia have sent a memorial to the 

 Canadian Government asking that a heav} 

 duty be placed on American lumber. The 

 present import duty is $2 per thousand or 

 lumber and thirty cents per thousand or 

 shingles. The effect of the new duty 

 would be felt mostly in Minnesota anc 

 Wisconsin. Washington and Oregon be- 

 ing affected but slightly. 



Governor Roosevelt has appointed the 

 following commissioners for the Watkins 

 Glen reservation in New York State : 

 William B. Osborne, of Victoria ; William 

 H. Wait, of Watkins; Jonas Vancluser, 

 of Horseheads ; John Allen Clute. of Wat- 

 kins, and James B. Rathbone, of Elmira. 



The Jack-pine of Wisconsin, which has 

 been looked upon as practically worthless, 

 is now being cut in large quantities and 

 manufactured in lath, for which there is a 

 big demand at all Western points. The 

 increasing value of this species was spoken 

 of in 'an article in the last issue of THE 

 FOREST Kit. 



An American firm has received an ordei 

 from Graham & Co., of Stockholm, for < 

 5oo-horse-power compound Westinghoust 

 engine, which will be utilized to drive i 

 sawmill plant in the northern woods o: 

 Sweden. On account of the poor trans 

 portation facilities the various parts of th< 

 engine will be carried on sleighs by rein 

 deer over ^oq miles to the north of Stock 

 holm, and then erected permanently. 



In the bill recently introduced in th( 

 United States Senate to establish a terri 

 tonal government for Hawaii, provision ii 

 made for the creation, among other execu 

 tive offices, of a Commissionership o 

 Agriculture and Forestry. 



The California Water and Forest Asso- Georgia is trying to care for its timbe: 



elation has elecided to raise $10,000 by resources by legal measures. To this em 



subscription to make available a similar attention has been called to the bill passec 



amount of the funds of the U. S. Geolog- by the last Legislature forbidding the cut 



