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THE FORESTER. 



The mountain is lava capped with one 

 of those singular table tops which show 

 that there was once a day when all those 

 ravines with which the region now abounds 

 did not exist, and that what is now the 

 crest of the mountain was once the lowest 

 plane in a topography vastly different 

 from that which exists to-day." St. Loicis 

 Lumberman. 



Gathering up ' t White county, Tenn. , is 

 Black Walnut. Qne Q the plateau 



ties on the western slope of the Cum- 

 berland Mountains, and once contained 

 a vast amount of the finest Black Wal- 

 nut timber. The timber has pretty \vell 

 all been cut, and now they are selling the 

 stumps. The trees wei'e cut down in a 

 wasteful manner with axes, leaving high 

 stumps. In the early days of the lumber 

 trade these fine Walnut trees were sold for 

 4 a song,' so to speak, and the songs re- 

 main unsung. Some of the large stumps 

 now bring more money than the whole 

 tree sold for. A correspondent at Sparta, 

 the county seat, says : 



' The railway yards here are full of 

 Walnut stumps ready to be loaded for 

 shipment. Considerable money is being 

 paid out through the county for these old 

 stumps. Some very fine specimens have 

 been brought in which will net the dealers 

 a handsome profit.' 



We are not informed as to who are the 

 dealers, to whom the stumps are sold, or 

 to what uses they are put, but presume the 

 veneer manufacturers buy most of them."- 

 Southern Lumberman. 



On the Raquette The Malby Bill," which 

 was brought into the New 

 York Legislature " to provide for the es- 

 tablishment and maintenance of storage 

 reservoirs on the Raquette River and its 

 tributaries," failed to pass the Assembly. 

 A bill of somewhat similar appearance, 

 which was passed, however, and signed 

 by Governor Roosevelt, is of an entirely 

 different character. It provides for levy- 

 ing an assessment on owners of water 

 power along the Raquette River, such as- 



sessment to be used for repairing the 

 dam at Raquette Pond, just below the i 

 way station at Tupper Lake Junct 

 The reconstructed dam will not be 1 

 enough to injure any timber or do 

 damage to the scenery. That misc 

 was inflicted years ago by the old cl 

 which was maintained at a height n: 

 greater than that of the one now propo 

 Any change in the scenery which ma) 

 suit from the reconstruction will be in 

 way of an improvement. 



The Largest The largest tree in 

 world is to be seen at ^ 

 cali, near the foot of Mount Etna, 

 is called " The Chestnut Tree of a I 

 dred Horses." Its name rose from 

 report that Queen Jane of Aragon, ^ 

 her principal nobility, took refuge f 

 a violent storm under its branches. 

 trunk is 204 feet in circumference. 



To Lumber in the "A company has beei 

 Philippines. ganized at Chicago and 



corporated under the laws of West Virg 

 with a capital of $5,000,000 to handle 

 woods, such as Mahogany, Rosewood 

 Ebony. The company will operate ir 

 Philippines, developing the lumber 

 dustry there and shipping their prod 

 to this country and to Europe." Mi 

 sippi Valley Lumberman. 



Comment on the "The Appalachian M< 

 ApP p a rk hian tain Club > of Asheville 

 C., has petitioned the Senate and H 

 of Representatives of the United Stati 

 take measures looking to the establish] 

 of a National Park in the southern A 

 lachians. The main idea of the pai 

 the application of scientific forestr 

 non-agricultural lands of this section, 

 parking of the domain being mean 

 this end. It would be well if all the 

 plications to Congress had as much r 

 as this. The economic value of 

 park and the conservation of the lur 

 industry by the application of scier 

 forestry is very evident to every prac 



