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Show I.' wo cm was, 1 : BHD ALONG TIE union PACIFIC I Samuel E. Bower of Salt Lake City, f forest assistant on the "Wasatch for- ! eat, is at the local district foreBt of- i , flee for a few days, and will go to 1 i "Evanston Monday, to secure addition- n nl figures as to volumeB of lodgepole 8 pine trees above 15 Inches In dlamc- y ter The principal uso of tho tables A prepared from theBO figures will be a to estimate the quantity of tics which f can be split from treos of various t diameters at breast height. J The study will be conducted In con- v ( . nectlon with the tie-cutting opera- 'tlons of the Standard Timber compa- ny, on Mill creek, a tributary of Bear river, and Black Fork of tho Green, in the Wasatch forest. In his field work last Bummor, Mr. Bower was In the vicinity of the old ; Union Pacific timber flume, used over j 30 years ago to transport wood for ' charcoal from the headwaters of Hay- Jj den creek to a point on tho Bear rlv- : or was sufficient to facilitate "drlv- f ing" to the railroad, about six miles n east of Evanston. This was probably j the moBt extensive timber flume con-- ;r structed In this region, and large ' , quantities of timber were mad ac- j cesslble In this way In tho early d:. ; The area cut over Is now covered by a dense growth of young timber which evidently sprung up immediately af- . ter the first cutting, except that in ! a spots this was entirely destroyed by fires before tho creation of tho na F tlonal forest i It Is not now practicable to esti- I ; mato the exact grade of the trough S3 j of the flume, but It appears that It fl was slight At several points there ; I were curves, and the remaining plat- h forms in nearby trees indicate that 5 If watch stations were maintained to il observe that the -flume did not be-come be-come blocked with the floating Urn- j ber. It is Interesting to learn how slight a grade In a flume will trans- I port timber satisfactorily. ' f Mr. Bower's floating material will t move faster than the water that car- . V rles It, and that the heavier the tim- u, ber, so long as It floats, the faster Ji It will travel, but this has been dls- if puted. Tests made In a slough, II ' $ where timber was being floated, prov- tj ed that all tho timber was not car j ried by the time the water had dis- fjj appeared, and water colored along- . J$ side timber in a stream moves faster i ' I H than the. timber. |