Show ttJ The limbers iu It Jilne p It is estimated that thereare 100000000 cet of lumber in the Anaconda and St Lawrence mines says the Butte InterMountain Inter-Mountain To a great many people these figures do not convey much of an idea quantity If this amount of lumber were sawed into strips one inch square and placed end to end it would reach around the world nine times and have 4694 miles of lumber left If piled in one solid pile fifty feet wide it would reach to the height of 3333 feet or would make twoinch plank enough for a sixfoot sidewalk 1521 mile I long or from Butte city to Chicago If this amount of lumber were sawed into sixinch boardsthere would bo enough for a fourboard fence around 3329017041 I acres of land If Anaconda company wished to sink an air shaft through to China there would be lumber sufficient to make an eightinch box to extend all the way to China |