Show DANGER OF WOOD FAMINE IS SEEN trees in for forests e ats must be replaced replace ree bee d or great scarcity will result SAW MILLS KILLS SMALL FACTOR pulp mill eat up many assay mi million I 1 of if spruce every year S scientific 1 afifi forestry For ettry he has nt not caught up to tree at slaughter tighter bangor banger me afe when the world gets th through rought with its arguments nim ments about war mar pence peace the or n league of nations and ad all 11 that hint la Is elpi eased in the start and ugly word lum cum it should turn tta its most serious and ad intelligent attention to tree farming tr there must be ninny more trees or fl A ca constant n rt t and alb ral replenishment a of f alia i eat I 1 v 0 or V we offer buffer great 1 inconvenience v ortance alion I iiii the th raty of many useful anil and some same 0 ornamental min tat fill 1 in tim the simple and innocent old deca a von tree one a as jut juit so much standing lum um her and lumber ana w el cheap P within the memory of na dpn of mid middle die age first drat class hus spruce inmee logs logo sold 1 in bungor nt at 11 to 14 per par thousand feet the men who out fut the logo were paid 18 to 20 B hand and board t the a board banot ell chiefly on ta of a bunk to bleed bleep in and beans co twenty at one times a dra tha week the mm men who dawe 1 the a some logs lag that Is personally con can dated them down the brooks mid and m racing R ing there received for their job labors and od he hair h raising catalog akk risks to 3 a day according to their athletic skill and their fame as white hite water an men on and it of course 1 all 11 hard handa were wen f fed although the menu me was character iced by monotonous simplicity and the service subject to many einaga lar larit itle lea and ad postponements postpone ments thle same rome log loes were owed in mills that arnew ornamented bated the banks of the scot boot for far fifty miles or I 1 more are chiefly bet between i een milford and bank bangor a ill als tance bince of about fifteen miles mile th the mill hands bands went to work vy very so early aly to in the morning lag and kept n at t it on until tit long iong of at ter ever everyone rome else had quit for the day being roven rewarded led to the extent of about 30 a month rod and all the corned beef cabbage cabbag etc they could eat ant in twenty to thirty minutes three we or tour four times thres a day according to sen ens son bon P profit alt to manufacturer manufacture the sweet eveston smelling elling spruce that was sliced off by the saws u was worth 14 to 21 per thousand tho u sand feet accord ing to qua quality ity and dimensions this would seem eem to uma of slight profit to the manufacturer but there or are carious ways of measuring logs lag and lumber woods scale boom scale and mill scale mid and the gold golden ere era vt of bangora open spruce trade the jug jugglery lery legit of figures was such that 1000 feet of logs boo boom scale Is would aid 1 saw out anywhere from 1150 to 1 1400 feet a of if lumber 1200 feet being a fair age so go even in the gloomiest gloo dais who aheu n he heava I 1 adnice pro bianc dimensions lim were S nt at 21 to 23 and I 1 the 1 a banque mill men would sit in their h e ir doffies chewing tobacco and bussing cussing lie file hard be r times time they were or in felt fact making a pretty good thing espee especially lally it if they happened to own the land I 1 the he logs age were cut fr from then last of ela 11 the coasters who he ca carried aried the lumber to a boston the sound and new york got 1 75 2 25 and ad 2 50 per par thousand feet for it de livery liver at those several deal destinations that 1 Is the rates rate quoted wa prevailed r tzi bcd during fairly good it almea a 1 in do lull times lumber was carried from rare nim ban gor to boston go as cheaply as to per thousand to in long 9 wood island sound unit ports parts rt at 1 to 2 and to new york at 2 to 2 2 25 5 now ow every everything US Is a bana changed of maines maine normal log cut t of 1000 feet at lee least 60 per cent goes OF in to 16 pulp and POP paper alie i native live to log ger wh who swung a sharp a ax skillfully at 18 to sa 20 a month and was con tent out to live on baked beans as and salted ralton fish he has bar been succeeded C C by a polyglot poh alot mob that awa saws 1 ini at 90 0 to 60 a month de mands manch hotel fare frequent pa payments ats polite treatment and ad every few weeks I a vacation ratio th the logs go for far the most it part or arc cut into four foot lengths and they go to the big pulp and paper will mills owned tied by corporations that long ago bought up hundreds bf t than thousands ad of acres of the best beat timber in A maine im bowl a used to begin in buum no ember bar and ad end ad in march no now it go goes on an nt at nil 11 seasons co saw mills mill small factor the saw mill Is n mail fact flitter in gs m eal the great m 1 game of turning maine me far or eat esta hit into 0 ahe long log US eer hint ball 1 Is 1 he 1111 who fut for 11 Is the sawmill drives anre 1 scan a no an more Is title tills Is the dav of the four foot stuff which make up most t of tire drives drive and 1 I ches bancs to the railroad rall rond aln pulp 11 ap mills aut at oil up so now many fit a of I 1 fret v of so spruce that speculative until and statis lvell ties PC pei sons wonder hot a it all 11 came from old find how long the auppl up 9 II 11 at last at feo far us maine I 1 ia COD cot cei tied nd there need be no tear fear of a wood wood famine very verv soon but at the pres pre e ent ut rate of cutting there 1 IB bound to bi be B 1 in we the united brute with i in a few lears cars that will scud sand prices kiting the proc it anguil apt consumption I Pt of 1 pulp wood mood ca ceist of the his ali she ilpo ch aher or 1 Is about 7 cords or 3 n feet ahat I 1 Is aing as wood load nt a klo k l rate een NO with I a his big supply in sight flight but bill there them 1 Is a greater ogreater drain upon 0 our i r wood r resources 0 so if I 1 ire re to takes k so wood ac more t alinn the mills th the 1 t r slope top of its bookies Is 75 per cent burnt buret 1 hnud ad and the timber map Is botched plot ched with great black patches nil all the way may fr from P puget it i I 1 C t bound old to the Peno bind I 1 in a some same ports parts ot of maine ile burnt am aren greatly exceeds the green 1 in the south the pine and the caress 0 press are being cut way away at on aa warning alarming rate old and in the pacific states slates the douglas fir and other growths are am being turned into money as rapidly a as lawa possible lacaille ille la 1 male make up tor for all the cutting lit tie ile Is being do done e scientific fie fore forestry try I 1 Is making wine some progress but as yet efforts in that direction are as aa nothing compared with tree me slaughter reforestation far 0 I 1 milan Is being carried on in some mine states state I 1 as a on I a small IRUH scale nd 1 in maine main but a tree dawn t grow in a day A big spruce may be felled in five min 1 nice but its reproduction will require 40 aenes it Is not not altogether a question of wood ad supply either As the fare forests to go 90 the sao floods its will come water powers will tell foil and it all R industry will suf of ter for therefore the there must be a lot of tree planting in this country lee else pretty much everything will 9 go ba b the board A advance d aiono in pulp W wood ad value th the advance it in alp wood values within SO 30 months has haa bee been remark art able even for the times before the entrance of this country into the war at relied peeled wood land dell delivered verial in the mill yard in maine oas nas worth fa 9 a cord now the price 1 Is 18 in maine rod and in new york state 28 26 a cord card this nd ad once ance I 1 Is due 1 in part to highs higher wages gas and in part to a little profiteering or a turn of thrift by the land owners etges ageg before the war that Is up to the spring of 1917 war were I 1 30 to mouth month and ad board 1 in 1918 and RIB 1919 th ili sandwith sand rate jumped to NO to 65 a month mith and ad 1 in some me as high we as an 75 or sa has been paid just now bela because e met maine a Is avret pretty ty well stocked the demand dea ad for far labor and the pr price cc show A dealin declining ag t tendency its I 1 Y but in the united states as a w hole the supply of wood 1 is short of the items demand it and there then wems to be no prospect of lower prices either of labor or prod product et oo 00 one operator in at maine a a b busette man who got into the lumber lumbar omber business through his ime oe of no na ture ore cut last year on met and ad the east branch of the 30 cord card or IS 15 feet of pup pulp wood and 5 feet of long logs log and will cut this year 40 cordi rd or 1 feet fact of pulp wood employing no me men at 62 R month and ad b card board or for piece work 3 50 to 3 75 a cord the common impression to 1 that nil an wood pulp Is made into paper old and that t the he berea increased rod demand for far I 1 news 76 print alone la Is for far th tha le au dation nud atlon of our nor forest lands land it Is true that most ot of the pulp goes to satisfy the appetite of the printing presses r but there how have been devel aped 1 in re recent 1 tit years many and varl arl ous oth other e uses hs for th the a fiber of the chausee spruce and it p poplar innumerable articles article are am now new made of wood pulp doors door dishes buttons button boards boxes pie plates by the millon million tria it rod and car wheels a and nd mile malndy it who h 0 parades the avenue proud of her g gown of f colette trl may he be surprised to learn chat h t to in that suit eilken fabric 1 Is 1 woven the he fiber of the spruce t that but she he owea something of the lust luster and ad do durable texture of her finery to the forests of maine |