Show LUMBER the lumb 1 r interests of the pacific coast tire re assuming more importance every year the tile rapid deit destruction ruction of the I 1 forests of the middle west aud nod the loss by fire and sheer lare iare direct I 1 L ing public attention to tu the matter more mor ethan than ever before professor morris estimate estimates the area burned in 1880 at acres and an exchange say says Pro professor ressor sargent places the financial loss in it that same year from forest fires at I 1 up to within a recent time the three states of michigan wiscon biscon Wi scon sin and minnesota produced more than one third of the lumber of tb the united states but those vast forests are aie being depleted just as its those of i maine blaine have been and in in the lut future i u r e i the e lumber umber of the bouti iry must be sought along the gulf in the south and on the pacific coast from the cas cade cangelo the ilie ocean and from puget bound to the red rid woods of Cali california frnia is is a mass of timber practically inexhaustible the prominence how occupied byc by chicago as a great lumber cen ter cannot continue many man y years as As an expert eipert iw jias it at the present rate of de depletion pl e tion of these western woods their available timber of commercial value will ere long disappear and ca chicago will loe e ita its imp 1 asa center of lumber industry alie TI 0 army of the axe und and the W will ill again have to take up its lindof march westward to lo the lorents a of the slope and rout bward io ii aj of the gulf region and the white bit pine the most valuable of df our I 1 lumber roh r trees will lose the prominence it bae bs b heretofore maintained and at the prescot rate wi will be exhausted in less than tea year years its most roost valuable substitute is 6 the redwood of bf the california cos coat range this has also come recently in into to special favor as an 0 ornamental I 1 wood and arid the de demand maud for it is i increasing ner easing both in this country and in europe the exportation of forest products last year amounted amoun teil to 75 and the imports sij such as Is rosewood debouy etc amounted to the deimann for in im ported woods bo howedel how evel ia is said to be de decreasing both owing to the echt exhaustion of the supply and to the facility for imitation a afforded by GUI our native the diversion of the lumber trade grade of the country to the pacific coast will prave of incalculable benefit to oregon the white ce ces dar oak ash asb maple and other woods have already demonstrated denio nitrated their usefulness and the port orford cedars are known all over the land the fir and cedar are already in in demand in the thinly timbered region between the rocky I 1 mountains and the great lakes as well as in omaha denver and kansas city winnis jonsson JonK Jons Soy sox who if 14 on echi IQ to cincinnati is probably the largest weman woman in the world sho abe ie is five feet eight and a half balf inches in height measures three feet around the upper arm four feet five inches around the thigh eight feet nine inches around the bust and is said to weigh pounds winnie is a black woman red star cough cure cone cured my cold mr A F phila pulla M delp delphia bla penn |