Show TUTOR TOM add af pf tny ma VIR cc f yi 1 J aa A 31 1 i fc fat AA taw w fri ax 1 nn alx J 11 P i p op ak CZ tl rh Z i br r amm SS 48 y j 1 c V ay iy s jl p w r f 4 ilia 9 41 I 1 bwy WWW waff WW ff af HE busy saws in the mahogany M rull mill are going du day and night at this season of 0 the year sear 1 there are seasons during which only one day da runs are made but the strain lb on just now and tho the rest ma chenery never stops during the 24 2 hours 60 leet feet ol of lumber arcet in the mill month alter month tho the ships come over at least 20 r r oes a 5 car coming to anchor beside the gunwale feero is no such thing as bringing the logs in ballast they compose the hip ps s entire cargo A great many are denoted demoted to this enterprise tind and to them thero there Is no othar object in life but to get th the logs from tile the tropical ports and bring them to new orleans and unload them and go back for or more ten million feet a year ear of 0 mahogany corrias into new orleans ind is partly manufacture 1 here in mexico honduras and central america the contractor gives the fhe del tars lara for a single tree this Is cheap enough but it Is the eipl rise ot of get ting ling it out that counts and that makes mahogany ma bogin an all lumber it alinda deep in the forest in the midst df at an almost impenetrable jungle there are no groves of them the trees ar arp scattered perhaps ier haps not mole moie than two to an acre it may ma be that there hero is no water course it at hand on which the logs may ma li floated to the port rhe ilic tree has to be located by h the hunter whose business it Is to roam through the foiest in search of 0 mahogany trees and to blaze a way nay to them so a that then the may nia be faunl again then the workmen must cut their laborious way nay to the tree using for cor the purpose the deadly machete y A p ja y yh n 51 rs f W A f rt fj 1 afe e 44 jt i 1 diio 1 r y 1 I 1 3 t te 1 1 J q l ife q I 1 t 4 11 A K T 4 5 1 24 1 ax i 1 J 6 az t m I 1 J V 14 wm i 4 L A 4 f 3 4 2 K 3 fay i sv 1 y t mahogany tree in the frest forest which a number of men from this counti male acquaintance along alon in the machete turned into a 1 pruning hook book makes a eai ef e nealon aaion however and in the course of time the men get to the tree there lii is no such thing as a forest of mahogany the plus pine tree loies lobes its jovn kind and never b better ater thin than ahen hen planted b by nature oi 01 b by man one tree next to ohp other over oer mile after mile of plain or mountain greeg are couill in groves or clumps seem beem ing to form forin little settlements the tile the mali tree tre lion how ealr ihas by b and toi foi itself alone it solitary of ff ils species gurio und e ed d bv tile smallen tree anil and dense un nn d t of thu the tropical trop icil forest mahogany Is a name for the he timber ot of several unrelated among m which aich are N arlous ipecac of cu cal otiis of ku australla us of myrtles and so BO called cedars there is a i dalles alley raa ma losani ind A mountain mahogany mili osan in ill the rocky mountains neither of chich lii is the genuine tree alfrica africa in adal tion to the reil real exports export si also i a false mahogany maho gani gari and from past india comes carries the toona which often the ina porter as mahogany clearly belonging to another order of plant it Is a beautiful ful tree tall arid and ehn pel eia w till the low leneat est branches at least dext feet from the ground at the bottom Is a huge swelling after the m minner inner of 0 the express in I 1 the tree trea Is to be cut above that six or eight feet from the roots rho first work ork to bo be done Is to baill buill a platform around the trunk so that the cutters cullers can upon it ant an w beld their axes in tile the course of time down mines comes the great monarch of the cat cal forest crashing through the thick gioth around it the trim it up cut it 11 into lengths length and manage to get it hauled md rolled to tho the nearest creek there it must ile he to await the floods of the rainy mason ketch will lift it and arr drra it doun stream and on to the ocean port there the logs ure are plied piled on the beach to wait fora tora eb eiel el and when it comes carries iro are rolled back into the water and crafted ratted and cullel out to the i ship ships s 41 silo ae ain alas a s a under taking tor for the water la is rough onca anc beside the vessel the derricks aro are put to work nork and the logs are lifted over one by one lowered with much biffl culty into the tha hold and elou enough b logs have come aboard the tha vessel is ready it may well be believed that magog any does not claim the respect in its own ian alanl I 1 that it does in ours there has been much comment on the tact fact that it I 1 li used tor for railroad ties in the lands across the feula anit and this may well be an immense amount of it la Is so tar far from the co boist aal an from any present meins means 0 of transportation that it practically is valueless al ueless to the owner ot of the land so ho he iles the waste of 0 it with comparative indifference true mahogany ma hosin is the only species specie ot of the SwIe teala maho mahogany gani and Is dis a native ot of tropical america but occasionally small specimens liao baio been found ira in southern florida ani T X similar tree never reaching the height of 0 the knie american rican how bow eer has been located in india this has boen ben plant 1 in southern florida southern california and parta p ot of mexico but only as an orna mental tree hoN howeler Neier because bec uie it is of 0 such slow growth and requires for full maturity such natural surroundings that tor for purposes it 11 would seem impossible of it is a glint giant among een the giants ot of a tropical forest it towers sometimes to a height of feet the trunk alone Is often 50 feet in length and 1 1 feet in diameter and it divides into so many huge arms and throws the shade ot of its shining green leaves over so ast an extent of surface thata more mora magniri cent or more object Is not to be ba met with in the vegetable lege ege table world the precise period of its growth is not so ac cura curatelo tely known but as when large it changes little luring during the life of man the timo time of its at maturity matu is not less than y cars the name was agn agnen en to mallog any in honor of the celebrated baron ion on sloten physician to siana ther esa tho the early spanish called the trpo trpe a not un unlike a the mal mahogany logany in m many any respects and found also in about the simo same natural sur soundings round roun lags dings but the english mistook istook in that name for cedar apply applying app liing ing it direct ly to machogan ma hogan tho the result being that spanish cedar is a term still heard occasionally occasional or read without true un ii in ancient books of travel and dl disco CO nerv erv along the spanish 11 miln alli only the best ind and biggest logs logi arc exported the smaller ones and the remnants lem nants ot of the sied sawed timber are uli lluc liza as ordinal i lumber on the spot tor for tho the construction of houses cr the decoration decori tion of small nes esel alq tl so that it in the tropics there cin can still be seen the solid mahogany miho gany furniture which male the wood so famous london is the magog center ot of an tile the neild here prices ire set and the character chir acler ot of wood decided B beauty of grim grain is of course the chief char tic in I 1 that which at once ranks it boe other woods either for or decorative purposes allied to beauty is i figure at 01 pattern 1111 in I 1 uen ben the two to aie combined ma began then becomes supreme sheets of m of at thinness can be cut from the parent to log with alth teri little loss selling mahagin ma nia hogin hogan logs bj b auction Is still mill the hibit habit in vogue la in the great london of tho trade i t cus torn tom inherited from generations of diw bu ing 14 an I 1 selling to these markets tit in england merchant come flom aiom ezer direction for the pick of the forests can ala alciss s be found there in fact the bist bi st class of logs from tropical km merici ericel are carried first clr it to lugland man of them sold t to masu manu facture rs in the united to be finally finall imported through the atlantic se seibo irl thus having triebel trie lel twice across tile the ocein ocean in their froni from thu the forest to the fictor facton it Is to know that there ii 18 no u hole de destruction of the ma ina bogany foie t rhe fhe 3 cling umber timber has to be riesen riese ried cd at one time it was the lan lais that no tree should be cut cua which squared less than IS 18 inches quite a large tree irce as one will notice but that lias has bome rither rather i dead let ter and trees smaller bin aller than this are cut elry day da still there Is some et tort fort to pre preserve erve the timber arid and even to do an appreciable amount ot of rotor es efstation tation eat atlon the trees aro arc of lery slow growth grotth many of at the large trees it to la said hearing bearing wil evidence dence of being at least 1 3 sears ears old and w when hen there la Is care leoniss or greed in cutting it means much to the future of the maho eary business |