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THE IKKIGATION AGE. 



serves without depleting timber capital. Hardwoods, be- 

 cause the State of California can grow them. The 

 eucalyptus will solve that one problem if California will 

 get back of the timber planting enterprises with sufficient 

 strength. What greater claim for immortality can Cali- 

 fornia hope for than to save the nation from a hardwood 

 famine? 



To say that California will one day be the hardwood 

 center of the North American continent may seem a 

 wildly extravagant statement, yet I do believe it most 

 thoroughly, and that belief is based on a very' close study 

 of supply and demand in the hardwood industry, on the 

 commercial species of the Eucalypti, on their rate of 

 growth when planted commercially in forests, properly 

 cared for, and on the suitability of the timber produced, 

 to take the place of all other hardwoods for all purposes 

 in construction, manufacturing, and the arts; and, lastly 

 on a close study of the really enormous profit that must 

 accrue to the farsighted men and women who will make 

 the same study and invest their savings and earnings in 

 an industry which has for its backing, one of the most 

 solid, most conservative and most important industries of 

 the world commercial hardwood timber. 



Overdo the industry? Not in your time, nor in mine. 

 Millions of acres of Eucalypti must be planted before the 

 production can equal consumption. We can speak of 

 700,000,000 acres of native timber lightly and easily, but 

 think of the time consumed, the investment required, and 

 the labor necessitated in the planting and cultivation of 

 even 1,000,000 acres. California can plant 100,000 

 acres each year for ten years before the first million 

 mark is reached, and, before that time will have passed 

 the consumption will have doubled, and the value more 

 than doubled, and the State will be further from a supply 

 than in the very beginning. One hundred thousand acres 

 each year is doing well, but it is only a pitiful beginning 

 of what should be done. 



If the plea was for the sake of future generations, there 

 would be but slight response such is human nature. But 

 the commercial Eucalypti will produce a quick return, 

 will show a profit to excite the avarice of the most 

 grasping, and they promise that profit in so short a span 

 that even the aged are made enthusiastic. 



What is the timber of the commercial species of the 

 Eucalyptus tree good for? Let us begin with the com- 

 monest and meanest uses: It is good for fuel, for poles, 

 posts, piling, mine timbers, and all underground and 

 marine architecture; for railroad ties, pillars, bridge 

 timbers, car construction and scores of railroad uses; 

 for ship-building, decking, sheathing and spars; for fur- 

 niture, fixtures and fine interior finish; for cooperage, 

 slack and tight, for oil, whisky and vinegar barrels and 

 kegs; for tool handles, spokes, felloes, hubs, neckyokes, 

 double trees, whiffle-trees, plow-beams, and for all imple- 

 ment and vehicle work; for bowling alleys, finest flooring; 

 for cross trees, insulator pins, pulleys and block; for finest 

 uses in musical instrument making, such as pianos, 

 organs, violins; in short, for all uses for which hardwood 

 is ever used. Be it most particular and technical, some 

 species of the Eucalypti will provide a suitable wood. 



Let us see upon what the secret of greatest profit 

 from Eucalyptus growing is dependent. First and fore- 

 most, an unquestioned necessity, is quantity. There must 

 be enough timber available in one body to warrant and 

 demand the finest sawmill and adequate manufacturing 

 facilities. To be sure, Eucalyptus will make a handsome 

 profit for firewood only, but we are speaking of the 

 greatest profits, profits from timber, from lumber, and 

 not from fuel. A few acres would not have half the 

 value per tree compared to the same quality of timber 

 in a large acreage, as amply witnessed in the history of 

 lumbering. A large acreage of uniform and maximum 

 yielding timber commands an enormous premium over 

 the small tract. 



State and Government reports indicate an average 

 ten-year-old Eucalyptus tree, properly planted and cared 

 for, to contain 200 board feet of clear lumber. Using 

 this estimate as a basis for calculation, let us arrive at 

 a conservative valuation of an acre of Eucalyptus timber 

 in ten years. Out of 680 trees planted, the large com- 



mercial planting companies producing plantations of thou- 

 sands of acres, guarantee at least 500 healthy, growing 

 trees, which, upon the estimate above referred to, will 

 yield 100,000 board feet of lumber per acre. Present 

 stumpage prices for hardwood would command a price 

 of $25.00 per thousand feet, and by "stumpage" price is 

 meant the selling price as it stands without the necessity 

 of cutting or marketing the same. Use your pencil now: 

 100,000 board feet at $25.00 per thousand Result, $2,500.00 

 per acre. 



Can you question such authorities as the United States 

 Agricultural Department and California State Board of 

 Forestry as to the growth of the timber? Can you ques- 

 tion the present market price of hardwood stumpage and 

 lumber? If you do, we have no other authorities to offer 

 and you would not become convinced of the wonderful 

 possibilities of this industry even though you investigated 

 for yourself by going to California, there to see the timber 

 growing in all its splendor. 



A ten acre tract of Eucalyptus timber in a great 

 plantation of thousands of acres, will, according to the 

 highest authority obtainable, produce the neat little fortune 

 of $25,000,000 within a period of ten years. Time has 

 never determined the number of cuttings possible, and 

 here would be created an estate perpetual in its earning 

 power. 



It is the opportunity of a life time for those of limited 

 means, who, now toiling, are looking forward to a day 

 not far distant when ease and comfort may be their lot. 



California welcomes you. 



WINNER OF IRRIGATION AGE TROPHY. 



We are showing herewith a loving cup which was 

 offered by the IRRIGATION AGE as a trophy at the National 

 Irrigation Exposition, which was conducted in connection 

 with the National Irrigation Congress at Pueblo. 



This trophy was awarded to I. B. Humphreys & Co. 

 of Denver, Colorado, for the best device for raising water 

 from the underflow for irrigation puposes. 



We congratulate the Humphreys Company on their 

 success in making so attractive and practical an exhibit. 



