Canadidn Forcslri/ .Journal, Norcmbcr. 1918 



1941 



ANOTHER EXPLANATION 

 REGARDING SPRUCE 



Portland, Ore., Oct. 19.— Selec- 

 tive logging costs four times as much 

 as the ordinary commercial kind. 

 That's why even a well-informed 

 hmiberman may be excused if he 

 wonders at the high price of spruce 

 used by the United States Govern- 

 ment in the manufacture of the 

 myriads of flying machines with 

 which the allied armies are smother- 

 ing the barbarians of Europe. 



It is said that spruce cut and shaped 

 into the wing beams and struts that 

 go into the construction of an air- 

 plane represents an outlay of about 

 $500 a thousand feel. To any 

 one who has the time and the 

 inclination to visit the spruce woods 

 of Oregon and follow the trail of the 

 airplane stock from its native tree 

 thru the various stages of its evolu- 

 tion until it finally is built into the 

 winged death to Germans at the big 

 eastern factories the only astonish- 

 ing thing is that the ultimate cost is 

 not greater. 



Take the logging operations for 

 example. Down in the heart of the 

 greatest spruce belt in the world near 

 the shores of a little Oregon bay is the 

 headquarters of one of the big logging 

 projects of the spruce production 

 division of the United States Army 

 •Signal Corps. Under the supervis- 

 ion of the Government the Warren 

 Spruce Co. operates this project 

 which has since February furnished 

 Uncle Sam with more than 7,000,- 

 000 feet of the highest grade air- 

 plane stock that grows. Prelim- 

 inary to the actual logging out pro- 

 cess the company had to spend an 

 immense sum in buying locomotives, 

 flat cars, donkey engines, steel rails, 

 tools and ecjuipment. A main line 

 railroad seven miles long had to be 

 graded over a rough piece of country 

 and before a rail could be laid more 

 than 8,000 feet of expensive piling 

 had to he driven, the timber for this 

 being cut and hauled out of the woods 

 along the right of way. 



A PAPER RACE TRACK. 



New York. Oct. 31. — This year's 

 international six-day bicycle race at 

 Madison Square Garden, the week 

 of December 1-7, may be held over a 

 paper track. A well-known manu- 

 facturer has made a proposition to 

 lay a track such as has been in use in 

 Paris for several years. It is said 

 a paper track has more dur- 

 abihty than a wooden course, and 

 insures better speed. The cost, too, 

 is much less. Indeed, a papier mache 

 track would revolutionize six-day rac- 

 ing. The inventors promise a dem- 

 onstration before November 10. 

 Right now it is only a question of 

 procuring the material. A ten-lap 

 track will require about 40,000 square 

 feet of material. It can be built 

 in sections, and can be put together 

 in about five hours. It takes about 

 forty-eight hours to lay a board 

 track, which becomes worthless after 

 a race. 



A TYPICAL B. C. LETTER. 

 Jessica, B.C., Sept. 21, 1918. 

 Canadian Forestry Assoc: 



It is with the greatest pleasure that 

 we accept membership with you and 

 assure you of our hearty support and 

 co-operation in any movement you 

 make to protect our timber from the 

 ravages of forest fires. We, too, 

 believe it to be the duty of ever>' 

 lumberman in Canada to identify 

 himself with your association. 



Wishing it all. the success it de- 

 serves 



Yours faithfully, 



Fir Tree Lumber Co. 



COL. DENNIS TO SIBERIA. 



Colonel John S. Dennis, C.M.G., 

 President of the Canadian Forestry 

 Association, has been appointed 

 Canadian Red Cross Commander for 

 Siberia. Col. Dennis, is familiar 

 with conditions in Siberia, from re- 

 sidence both in Northwest Canada 

 and Russia, where he is a member of 

 the Russian Investment Company. 

 For the past fourteen months he has 

 been second in command of the 

 British-Canadian Recruiting Mis- 

 sion in the United States. 



