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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 29, 1908. 
Building Motor Bo&ts ai\d 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
‘’HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PLANS' 
A complete illustrated work on the building of motor 
boats and the installing, care and running of gasolene 
motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, 9 
folding drawings and 8 full-page plans. Price, post¬ 
paid, $1.50. 
The author is a builder and designer of national repu¬ 
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perused by every individual who operates one. The book 
is well worth the price asked for it. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
True Pictures of a Vanished Life 
“BILL" HAMILTON 
Appropriately enough W. T. Hamilton, the 
last survivor of the old race of free trappers, 
became the author of one of the best pen pic¬ 
tures of the old life of the plains and moun¬ 
tains ever written. 
No work of fiction offers more adventure, 
more thrills of desperate bravery, heroic endur¬ 
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per and plainsman, the companion of Bill 
Williams, Jim Baker, Carson, Bridges and the 
rest whose names are household words. 
“Sixty Years on the Plains” is all that the 
name signifies and more. It depicts every phase 
of frontier life, hunting, trapping, Indian fight¬ 
ing, the beginnings of Empire building. From 
the store house of sixty years of wonderfully 
full experience, Mr. Hamilton drew the material 
for a book of splendid interest and real value. 
Cloth, Illustrated. 
Postpaid, $1.50 
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WOOD DISTILLATION IN 1907. 
The Bureau of the Census, with the assistance 
of the Forest Service of the Department of 
Agriculture, has for some years collected 
statistics concerning the annual production of 
various forest products, and the preliminary 
figures on wood distillation for the year ending 
Dec. 31, 1907, have just been made public. 
Hardwood Distillation: In the distillation of 
hardwoods, charcoal, gray acetate, and alcohol 
constitute the leading products. During 1907 the 
industry passed through its first year’s experience 
under the working of the so-called free or de¬ 
natured alcohol law. While this law exerted no 
disturbing influence on the market value of such] 
products as charcoal, acetate of lime, pyro¬ 
ligneous acid, etc., its effect on wood alcohol 
was immediate and striking, resulting in a de¬ 
cline of more than 55 per cent, in the market 
value of this commodity—from an average value 
per gallon of 34 cents in 1906 to 15 cents in 1907. 
Otherwise, however, little or no evidence of the 
law’s operation is discernible in the statistics 
of the industry for the country as a whole; in 
fact, the demand for charcoal has been sufficient 
to cause a slight advance in the average value 
of this commodity, along with a substantial in¬ 
crease in production, and this in a measure com¬ 
pensated for the fall in the price of alcohol. 
There were 100 active plants reported for 
1907, an increase of 14 over 1906. The total 
consumption of wood—chiefly birch, beech and 
maple 1 —in 1907 was 1,219,771 cords, as against 
1,144,896 cords in 1906, an increase of 74,875 
cords. The production of charcoal increased 
from 45,657,721 bushels valued at $2,965,940, to 
50,772,233 bushels, valued at $3,838,392; that of 
gray acetate from 96,376,497 pounds, valued at; 
$2,017,331, to 133,374,941 pounds,' valued at 
$2,565,938; and that of brown acetate from 
6,960,933 pounds, valued at $85,777, to 8,152,848 
pounds, valued at $94,446. The reported yield 
of crude alcohol, on the other hand, decreased 
from 7,871,494 gallons, with a value of $2,676,191, 
to 7,741,645 gallons, with a value of $1,153,307, 
a loss of 129.849 gallons, or 1.6 per cent., in quan¬ 
tity, and of $1,522,884, or 56.9 per cent., in value. 
. The leading States in hardwood distillation 
on the basis of wood consumed were Michigan, 
Pennsylvania, and New York, in the order 
named, these States consuming in 1907 89.2 per 
cent of the total amount of wood utilized in 
this branch of the industry. Of these States, 
Michigan and New York show substantial gains 
over 1906, both in the quantity of wood con¬ 
sumed and in products, while a slight decrease 
appears in the total for Pennsylvania. As is the 
case with softwood distillation, the location of 
this branch of the industry is determined largely 
by the distribution of the woods which consti¬ 
tute its raw material. 
Softwood Distillation: In the distillation of 
pine and softwoods generally turpentine is the 
leading product, with charcoal, oils and tar as 
products of secondary importance. Longleaf 
pine supplies the bulk of the raw material, 
though other species of pine as well as conifers 
are used. On the whole, the showing for 1907 in 
this branch of the industry was satisfactory. 
While the inquiry disclosed only 31 plants in 
operation as against 32 in 1906, the quantity of 
wood consumed increased from 50,234 cords to 
61,149 cords, or 21.7 per cent. This increase 
was accompanied by an advance in the average 
cost per cord from $2.85 to $3.44. The total yield, 
in 1907 of turpentine, the leading product, was 
1907 of turpentine, the leading product, was 
654,711 gallons, as against 503,427 gallons in 
1906, an increase in quantity of 151,284 gallons,: 
or 30.1 per cent, while the average value per 
gallon remained substantially the same—about 
47 cents. The production of tar and oils in¬ 
creased from 773,128 gallons, valued at $81,797, 
to 1,152,752 gallons, valued at $127,531. The 
production of charcoal also showed marked in¬ 
crease, from 791,887 bushels, with a value of 
$44,381, to 1,158,364 bushels, with a value of 
$102,411. 
The leading States in this branch of the in¬ 
dustry are North Carolina, Florida and Georgia,, 
in the order named, Georgia and Florida hav- 
ing exchanged places since 1906. 
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THE SUMMER HOME OF TO-MORROW 
| Houseboats and Houseboating 
N‘ 
ALBERT BRADLEE HUNT 
’OT only the best, but the only practical book for the yearly increasing num¬ 
bers who see in the Houseboat the solution of the great summer problem. 
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Mr. Hunt has dealt with houseboating from the water up, considering in detail 
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reach of the city, and how the houseboat makes change of scene not only possible 
but easy. Special consideration is given power houseboats and auxiliary power 
boats. 
All this is accompanied by copious notes, drawings, builders’ plans and illus¬ 
trations of actual houseboats and houseboat life. Superbly illustrated, heavy paper, 
232 pages. 
A Work of Rare Beauty and Interest. 
Price, $3 Net. Postage, 34 Cents. 
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127 Franklin Street, New York City 
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