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Show Buy Sawdust Mountain to Make Boards C-VIKBOTGAN. MICH. If pulverized pul-verized rock In the form of ce-ment ce-ment Is successful for building build-ing purposes, why not use saw-dmi saw-dmi I.) inuke boards? f '..1 Is the question that popped Into thy 1. mis of the engineers of a build-Ins build-Ins material concern when they vie (I Chehoygnn's famous mountain of ..vvUiist, which fur years has been loo!. id on with wonder by thousands of t .crisis and others unacquainted with the lumber business as carried on h: re many years ago. And now th irmintnln has been sold and will be i-i r'eil away. L"i'il'r men have predicted for spy ml years that some use would be miuli- of this mountain of sawdust nnd. recently, the building material cnnipiny received two carloads from this :Po as samples, to be used In the niniiiifiicfnre of wall bourd. As s rtv auil of this experiment the entire anwiliist mountain was sold. Th? sawdust "I" blpped from Olx l ivcan. according to the present plnns. si the roto of ten carloads-to:is-a day. On this basis, It will require re-quire more than 000 working days to remove this huge pile. , With the announcement of the sale, old timers ar recalling the days when they boasted of the finest white pine woods In the north, and when the sound of many axes rang out nil day long throughout the forest. Back In the early 70s, when giant pines were crowding each other for sunlight and air, a little sawmill was started on the Cheboygan river. It grew Into what Is now one of the largest paper mills In the Middle West. At the outset the sawdust and waste timber were burned, but, as the lumber Industry grew and millions of feet of great white pine logs were made Into boards and timber, the sawdust end edgings were placed in an open field near the sawmill site. Years and years of accumulation caused this sawdust pile to grow until un-til the mill had finally consumed Its cut. It was then found that the sawdust saw-dust mountain occupied wore than thirteen acres of hind and. In many places, was 00 to 60 feet high. It was said 1 1 111 1 If this sawdust could be made Into boards 12 feet long, 12 inches wide and 1 inch thick, It would make at least I.IO.OOO.OOO boa rds. The sawdust pile f.r many years hs supplied nearby Ice houses with SHwd'ist for packing ice and has also furnished the material for building new roads across low Jaads ana swamps. |