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Show PUTTING TIMBER IN THE LAKES Washington, Dec. 14. In selling tho timber burned during the disastrous forest Arcs of lust August, the government gov-ernment is trying so to distribute the wood that It will not overstock any of the markets. Many companies which aro buyiDg this timber are "putting It In tho . lake," said Associate Forester Potter today This, he explained, 1j a scientific scien-tific term used by lumlr men apply-log apply-log to the practice of storing limber In lakes or ponds until ready for use. By this treatment of the llnilier, oven though It may be burned, according ac-cording to lumber exports In tho forest for-est service, most of it will keep for approximately 20 years. Some species, spe-cies, however, they declare, will be- j come waterlogged within a short pe-. 1 ilod. Tills timber Is laid around the j water's edge, where It will be tho Arst used. ' In the Clearwater district, where the wood Is pai tleularlv"adapted to the making wood pulp, the forest ser-, ser-, vice Is attempting to have some of I the pulp making concerns enter the I forests and build their plants on the ground for the purpose of using up i tho burned timber. There Is enough of this timUr, it is said, with the re-j re-j duced price at which It Is sold, to I compensate the companies for build-j build-j Ing plants In the forests. Much of the timber in the Missoula I district., according to Mr Potter, Is . small and readily can be used in tho manufacture of r.nllroa-J ties and given giv-en some preservative treatment will last for many years. Kfforts are being made to have tho railroads use this timber. |