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Show National Forest Notes. The "railroads of the United 1 States use about 150,000,000 wooden ties each year. Cadillac, Mich:, is reported to be the foremost city in the country coun-try for varied and close utilization utiliza-tion of forest products. More than one-fourth of all the sheep in the eleven states near-4 est the Pacific coast are grazed on the national forest. The national forests contain water powers with an aggregate estimated capacity of 12,000,000 horse power, available for use under permit from the secretary of agriculture. Much of the piling, wharf material ma-terial and lock gates of the Panama Pan-ama canal are made of 'green-heart, 'green-heart, said to be the most durable dur-able wood known for these purposes, pur-poses, which comes mainly from British Guiana. The Western Forestry and Conservation Con-servation Association will hold its annual conference about. December De-cember 15. This year it will meet -"-- '.. ... . . ,i,i,i , ,, at Vancouver, B. C, ahd will give its main consideration to the problem of forest fire prevention and control. m . |