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pose, 100 to 150 years, is discouraging 
to investors who might wish to plant 
trees or hold forest property for the 
world’s markets. 
The Tennessee and southern red 
cedar is more durable, but is now very 
scarce, besides it is too valuable for 
ead peneil timber, and is of very sloy 
growth. 
Phe juniper found in’ the Dismal 
swamp also possesses the qualities of 
a good pole tree, but is quite scarce. 
The specifications for telegraph 
poles demand timbers of unusual 
length, varying from 24 to 50 feet, hav- 
ing a diameter of 8 to 10 inches at top. 
They are set in the ground 414 to 6 
feet. 
Transportation is a great item of ex- 
pense on poles. One car at Salt Lake 
City, from Michigan to Oregon Short 
Line Railway, contained 66 poles 
weighing 33,000 pounds, the freight 
being $4 per pole. 
The chestnut which grew so abun- 
dantly on the mountains of Tennessee 
is used almost exclusively for telegraph 
poles in East Tennessee and North 
Carolina, but this timber is not being 
cared for and suitable trees for poles 
will not be found in abundance a few 
years hence: even now they are scarce. 
There should be no trouble in produe- 
ing chestnut poles and trees for other 
lumber, in the mountain regions where 
chestnut is a natural growth, if land 
owners could be made to realize the 
great importance of caring for their 
timber trees, but suitable information 
upon these points is not available, and 
until a thorough and systematic effort 
is made to educate the farmers in re- 
gard to arboriculture, no improvement 
may be expected. 
Telegraph and telephone companies 
A STURDY CATALPA SPECIOSA. 
AN IDEAL TELEGRAPH POLF. 
could well afford to give liberal en- 
