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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



stroyed the mill in 1907. Part of the 

 dock and the bridge were also burned. 



When the new mill was built the 

 matter of transporting the manufac- 

 tured lumber across the inlet to the 

 yards and railroad was taken up with 

 the Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. and it was 

 determined to substitute a cableway for 

 the bridge. The mill has a capacity of 

 305 M. feet per day. Part of this out- 

 put is shipped by water and the vessels 

 lie at the north, or mill side, of the inlet 

 to receive this. A large portion of the 

 lumber is, however, brought across the 

 inlet, either to be temporarily stored, or 

 to be shipped by rail. Railroad tracks 

 run through the yards, as can be seen 

 in the cut. 



The logs come to the mill in rafts and 

 are taken in by means of the usual 

 haul-up chains at the far end of the 

 mill, as it is seen in the illustration. The 

 finished lumber comes out at the end 

 of the mill seen in the center of the 

 illustration. Boards and similar ma- 

 terial, go to sorting tables on the north 

 side of this wing and are loaded by 

 hand on trucks. The trucks each carry 

 a load of 1,000 board feet. Large di- 

 mension lumber is delivered from the 

 end of the wing and is loaded on the 

 trucks in the same sized loads as the 

 boards. The trucks are four feet wide 

 and nine feet long, built of timber, and 

 run on two wheels and an axle under 

 the center of each truck. The trucks 



are run out to where they are under the 

 cableway, the cableway picks them up, 

 lumber and all, carries them across the 

 inlet and lowers them down to any of 

 the many run-aways or tracks provided 

 in the yards. In the illustration a truck 

 loaded with lumber is seen suspended in 

 the center of the picture ready to be 

 landed wherever it may be wanted for 

 distributing the lumber. 



The cableway may be used also for 

 loading lumber directly from the yards 

 into scows or upon cars. 



The cableway was designed for a ca- 

 pacity of 15,000 feet per hour, but it 

 has many times exceeded this in actual 

 practice, especially when handling lum- 

 ber both ways. The cableway was de- 

 signed and built by the Lidgerwood 

 Mfg. Co., of New York. Its total span 

 between towers is 1,176 feet. The tow- 

 ers are of wood. The head tower is 

 100 feet high and the tail tower is DO 

 feet in height. It is nominally a five- 

 ton cableway, intended to carry loads 

 of from four to six tons. The usual 

 load is about 4,000 pounds of lumber 

 and the weight of the truck, which is 

 about 900 pounds. The loads are 

 hoisted at a speed of 250 feet per min- 

 ute, and the carriage, or conveying 

 speed, along the cable is 1,200 feet per 

 minute. A fair average speed of opera- 

 tion is twenty trips per hour, but as 

 many as twenty-five trips may be made 

 under favorable conditions. 



A ROADSIDE TREE LAW 



By CHAPIN JONES 

 Assistant State Forester 



THE growing sentiment in Mary- 

 land in favor of the planting, 

 care and protection of road 

 side trees has crystallized in the 

 passage by the Legislature of 1914 

 of a roadside tree law, which has 

 placed Maryland in the front rank of 

 the states making provisioti for beau- 

 tifying its roadsides. Before the pass- 

 age of this law the situation in Mary- 

 land was the same as in other states 



where there is no definit provision by 

 law for their protection. While public 

 opinion is practically unanimous in de- 

 siring their protection and deploring 

 their mutilation, yet no one is legally au- 

 thorized to defend them, and since what 

 is everybody's business is nobody's busi- 

 ness the roadside trees, some of them 

 cherished, old landmarks, have been 

 mutilated and destroyed ruthlessly, 

 principally by telephone and electric 



