anaheim-gazette 1909-07-01

IN THE REALM OF FORESTRY TOPICS OF INTEREST TO SETTLERS IN ARID WEST Lumbermen's Association Co-operating With Forest Service in Fire Patrol—Keeping Track of Stock Losses on National Forests—Lumber Cut of the Country In 1908 [By a Special Contributor] Portland, Oreg., June 25.—Plans are being formulated for a cooperative system of fire patrol between the Forest Service and the Lumbermen's Protective Associations in northern Idaho. The associations represented are the Potlach Timber Association, Clearwater Fire Protective Association, Coeur d'Alene Timber Protective Association, and the Pend Oreille Timber Protective Association. The proposed agreement between the several associations and the Forest Service for patrolling the territory that comes within the boundaries of the National Forests in Idaho, and the holdings of the several private associations was unanimously adopted at a joint meeting of the officers, directors, and members of the several associations interested, and is substantially as follows: 1. The Secretary of each association is authorized to act with the District Forester or his representative in establishing cooperative fire districts which include National Forest and Association lands up to any reasonable or necessary limit outside of the National Forest, determining the acreage of the holdings of each party in each district, and establishing upon the basis of such acreage a pro rata share which each party shall pay of all expenses, in addition to and not including the salaries and traveling expenses of the men enon the National Forests. Forest guards and rangers have been instructed to keep a strict account of all live stock found dead in their districts, reporting to the Forester at the end of each month the number found and listing the causes of death as far as possible under one of four heads—accident, disease, poison, and wild animals. It is believed that such a record will be of great value to stockmen in assisting them to figure up the percentages of their losses and materially aiding them in preventing some of the losses through corrective measures. For instance, if an unusually large number of stock are found dead in some particular locality, due to poison from dangerous plants, it will be possible to meet this condition by fencing up the area, or perhaps digging up the poisonous plants. If several animals are found killed by wild animals in some lone canyon, the hunter employed for that purpose, or the ranger himself can investigate the matter and either trap poison, or shoot the mountain lion or other predatory animal responsible for the damage. The rangers and guards are constantly riding over their districts in the Forests and have better opportunities for finding dead livestock than the stockmen themselves, and as each Forest ranger is supplied with the brands of all stock in his district, he can generally identify the stock by brands or marks and thus advise the owners. LUMBER CUT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1908 During the year 1908, 31,231 sawmills in the United States manufactured 33,289,369,000 feet of lumber, according to a preliminary report just issued by the Bureau of the Census. These mills also cut 12,106,483,000 shingles and 2,986,684,000 lath. Lumber manufacturing like every other industry felt the effects of the busand Game Commissions which secured reports in Pennsylvania to the Census, and mills. In North America came from 1740 to 1530 mills reporting only forty less than in West Virginia Ohio, and Indiana 1100 mills each witting lumber last output per mill in New York, and 525 isiana, these two nearly the extent by small and land. Yellow pine, Deoak, hemlock and other named were to lumber in the Yellow pine has also been used las fir, so that no place. Washington has shingle producing of red cedar shingal, and it supplies the total output year. Among the ducing states. Maine and California important. The chiganan and Maintained cedar, those in and those in Calhath are general lumber manufactures to some extent wood that is cut the kinds of larch prominent are fir spruce, yellow hemlock. EXPERIMENTS District Forester or his representative in establishing cooperative fire districts which include National Forest and Association lands up to any reasonable or necessary limit outside of the National Forest, determining the acreage of the holdings of each party in each district, and establishing upon the basis of such acreage a pro rata share which each party shall pay of all expenses, in addition to and not including the salaries and traveling expenses of the men engaged on actual patrol work, which may be incurred in extinguishing forest fires in that district. 2. The agreement is to apply only to National Forest land and to lands owned by the associations which are included in the cooperative fire districts to be established in the manner above prescribed. 3. The Forest Service is to furnish such patrolmen on these areas as are available under its appropriation; and the association will furnish not less than an equal number for its lands, on the basis of acreage per man. The Supervisor of each National Forest shall make such arrangements as are practicable with the local fire wardens of the association to divide areas for patrol and any other arrangement advisable to avoid duplication of work and to make the patrol by both parties most economical and effective. 4. Every member of both patrol forces in the cooperative fire district is to keep a vigilant lookout for forest fires and exert every effort to extinguish them, whether on lands belonging to the association or to the Government. The association and the Forest Service shall furnish the services of all their available employees to fight fires which cannot be extinguished by the regular patrol forces of the district. The patrolman on each district is authorized to purchase tools and supplies, hire temporary men and pay other expenses necessary to extinguish any fires in the district. 5. Each cooperative district will be placed for purposes of fire fighting in charge of an officer to be agreed upon by the Forest Supervisor and the Secretary of the association. This officer will assume charge, when present, of all fires within his district. The first patrolman who reaches a fire, the officer in charge of the district not being present, shall assume charge of the fire until such district marks and thus advise the owners. LUMBER CUT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1908 During the year 1908, 31,231 sawmills in the United States manufactured 33,289,369,000 feet of lumber, according to a preliminary report just issued by the Bureau of the Census. These mills also cut 12,106,483,000 shingles and 2,986,684,000 lath. Lumber manufacturing like every other industry, felt the effects of the business depression which began in October, 1907. Consequently the proportion in 1908 was below that for the previous year. In 1907 the cut was 40,256,154,000 feet from 28,850 sawmills, the highest production ever recorded. Notwithstanding, therefore, that in 1908, reports were received from eight per cent more mills than in 1907, the decrease in lumber cut reported by them was slightly over seventeen per cent. Washington, as for several years past, still ranks first among the states in lumber production, its cut in 1908 being 2,915,928,000 feet—a decrease of 22.8 per cent over the cut in 1907. Nearly all the lumber manufactured in Washington is Douglas fir, the market for which was seriously affected by the panic. Louisiana ranks second, with 2,722,421,000 feet, a decrease of 250,000,000 feet or 8.4 per cent over the cut in 1907. Louisiana is first in the production of both yellow pine and cypress. Cypress is a particularly useful and valuable wood, and apparently, the manufacturers of it did not suffer as severely from dull times as did the manufacturers of yellow pine and Douglas fir. Mississippi was the third state in lumber production in 1908, with a total of 1,861,016,000 feet—a decrease of eleven per cent from the cut in 1907. Arkansas ranked fourth, with 1,656,991,000 feet—a decrease nearly of seventeen per cent over the previous year's output, and Wisconsin fifth, with 1,613,315,000 feet against 2,903,279,000 feet in 1907. In Texas, where the lumber industry is confined almost exclusively to yellow pine, the falling off was very heavy. The total cut of the state in 1908 was 1,524,008,000 feet—a decrease of 31.6 per cent over the cut in 1907. Eight other states manufactured more than one billion feet each of lumber last year. In the order of importance they were: Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia. EXPERIMENTS Is yellow pine where the brushtered over the ground piled and burned which the kind of lumber prominent are fir spruce, yellow hemlock. Whenever the berber from the Moss essential provisional provision is that the brush of. In the yellow usually piled and Douglas fir reeves another pose that is, is irural seeding up starting of another fir. In the yellow ever such as an eastern Oregon and the Southwest this brush may be de helpful to these semi-arid out very rapidlyduction of yellow localities very poor A soil covering quite effective from the intense to conserve them may be wiser, that brush unburned of yellow pine. It is to settle latter type of for experiments have an area from the merchantable cut by the 5. Each cooperative district will be placed for purposes of fire fighting in charge of an officer to be agreed upon by the Forest Supervisor and the Secretary of the association. This officer will assume charge, when present, of all fires within his district. The first patrolman who reaches a fire, the officer in charge of the district not being present, shall assume charge of the fire until such district officer arrives. 6. The association agrees to give the Forest Service the privilege of constructing roads or trails across their holdings, not to exceed four feet in width, for fire protective purposes. During the latter part of May District Forester Greeley met the secretaries of each association, and final maps, outlining cooperative districts, and definitely determining the pro rata share for each district were completed. This will insure the cooperative agreement being put into full force and effect during the coming fire season. The enormous destruction caused by fires during the past season has made it imperatively necessary that some practical and systematic plan to protect the valuable timberlands in Northern Idaho be adopted. Following the passage of the Fallon Fire Law, this cooperative agreement marks a strong progressive move on the part of the lumberman and assures good effective results in a badly fire-infested territory. KEEPING TRACK OF STOCK LOSSES ON NATIONAL FORESTS Washington, June 25.—In the future the Forest Service will endeavor to obtain complete reports as to the causes of all losses of live stock up- ANAHEIM GAZETTE and Game Commission of that state, which secured reports from 2291 mills In Pennsylvania 2234 mills reported to the Census, and in Virginia 1937 mills. In North Carolina reports came from 1740 mills, and in Kentucky from 1530 mills. The number of mills reporting from Tennessee was only forty less than from Kentucky. In West Virginia, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, and Indiana between 1000 and 1100 mills each were engaged in cutting lumber last year. The average output per mill was 350,000 feet in New York, and 5,260,000 feet in Louisiana, these two states presenting nearly the extremes of production by small and large mills. Yellow pine, Douglas fir, whitepine, oak, hemlock and spruce, in the order named, were the woods cut into lumber in the largest quantity. Yellow pine has ranked first since it surpassed white pine in the latter nineties, and it is still far in the lead. More recently, white pine has also been superseded by Douglas fir, so that now it occupies third place. Washington has been the principal shingle producing state since the use of red cedar shingles became general, and it supplied three-fifths of the total output of shingles last year. Among the other shingle producing states Michigan, Louisiana, Maine and California were the most important. The shingles cut in Michigan and Maine are chiefly of white cedar, those in Louisiana of cypress, and those in California, of redwood. Lath are generally a by-product of lumber manufacture, and are made to some extent from almost every wood that is cut into lumber. Among the kinds of lath which are most prominent are white pine, Douglas fir, spruce, yellow pine, cypress and hemlock. EXPERIMENTS WITH BRUSH DISPOSAL LOOK A The man who succeeds in ahead and plans for the future money is an absolute necessity world. A that only he attain acts accord suffice for count, and a financial insures theods and the respect of business with this bank today and lay THE FIRST NATION ANAHEIM EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS $100 buys enough Wall Paper for 12 ft. room - Sides, Ceiling and Border 10½e. for 36 inch Colored Burlap. 20c. for Sanitos Wall Oil Cloth. EXPERIMENTS WITH BRUSH DISPOSAL Is yellow pine reproduction better where the brush is cut up and scattered over the ground, or where it is piled and burned? This is a question which the Forest Service hopes to answer through interesting experiments which have just been started on the Fremont National Forest in Oregon. Whenever the Government sells timber from the National Forests an essential provision of the contract is that the brush must be disposed of. In the yellow pine region it is usually piled and burned. In the Douglas fir region the whole cut-over area is burned broadcast under careful guards and after fire lines have been constructed about the area. The primary object of the disposing of the brush on cut-over areas by burning is to get rid of a firetrap, but in some types of forest, particularly in the Douglas fir forests, it serves another very beneficial purpose, that is, it promotes the natural seeding up of the area and the starting of another crop of Douglas fir. In the yellow pine forests, however, such as are found over in eastern Oregon and Washington and in the Southwest the effect of burning brush may be detrimental rather than helpful to the young growth. In these semi-arid regions the soil dries out very rapidly and natural reproduction of yellow pine is in some localities very poor on this account. A soil covering or mulch of brush is quite effective in protecting the soil from the intense sunshine and helps to conserve the soil moisture. It may be wiser, therefore, to leave the brush unburned in these dry stands of yellow pine. It is to settle this question in this latter type of forest that the present experiments have been begun. On an area from which about half of the merchantable timber is now being cut by the Oregon Valley Land cedar, those in Louisiana of cypress, and those in California, of redwood. Lath are generally a by-product of lumber manufacture, and are made to some extent from almost every wood that is cut into lumber. Among the kinds of lath which are most prominent are white pine, Douglas fir, spruce, yellow pine, cypress and hemlock. The collection of paper pulps comprises samples made from each of the important woods of the northern Rockies and shows the wood fiber in both the bleached and unbleached state, with a statement of the amount of chemical required to bleach the fiber. These specimens, which were prepared in the Forest Service wood chemistry laboratory in Washington, show that from many of the Rocky Mountain species, paper can be made of as good quality and as cheap as that obtained from the eastern spruce, while the abundant water power in this region offers unexcelled advantages for its manufacture. Another valuable object lesson is the collection of Douglass Fir distillation products presented to the Forest Service by a wood distilling company of Oregon. These products include turpentine, rosin, tar, pitch, wood creosote, charcoal and various oils, as well as fruit sprays, disinfectants, shingle stains and other materials which are made from the oils. All of these come from the pitchy wood of the common Red or Douglas Fir, which is plentiful throughout the Rocky Mountains and is the great timber tree of the Pacific Northwest. These products suggest great possibilities for the utilization of waste wood, as they can be obtained from pine as well as from fir. The sections of creosoted ties and timbers which were treated with preservatives in Forest Service treating plants, illustrate the thoroughness of the methods which the Service is now using in its demonstration work, while teaching wood users the best way to treat timber so as to double its life. The District office will supervise the construction and experimental operation of several wood preserving plants for private firms during the coming summer, in order that the use of treated ties, poles, posts, and mine timbers may come into more common use and their value be better understood. The species display will attempt to give an accurate idea of each kind of wood that grows in the region. A soil covering or mulch of brush is quite effective in protecting the soil from the intense sunshine and helps to conserve the soil moisture. It may be wiser, therefore, to leave the brush unburned in these dry stands of yellow pine. It is to settle this question in this latter type of forest that the present experiments have been begun. On an area from which about half of the merchantable timber is now being cut by the Oregon Valley Land Company, two representative plots of about eight acres each were selected. Each was divided in two parts in such a way that the conditions on one half were just about the same as conditions on the other half. On one the brush will be piled and burned, on the other it will be cut up and scattered over the ground. Here, with the two methods being tried side by side, is a good opportunity to prove their relative merits. This fall there will be abundant yellow pine seed so that by next summer the results of the experiments should begin to show. These plots will be examined by officers of the Forest Service from time to time. If there are more seedlings at the end of two or three years on the half of which the brush is scattered than on the half on which the brush is burned it will indicate that in order to secure the best growth of young seedlings it is better not to burn the brush. If the experiment does turn out this way it is probable that in this yellow pine region where the soil is liable to dry out and natural reproduction is poor, the brush will be scattered over the ground in logging operations on the National Forests hereafter. Wherever the danger from fire is great, however, the brush will have to be piled and burned even though this best way to treat timber so as to double its life. The District office will supervise the construction and experimental operation of several wood preserving plants for private firms during the coming summer, in order that the use of treated ties, poles, posts, and mine timbers may come into more common use and their value be better understood. The species display will attempt to give an accurate idea of each kind of wood that grows in the region. The twigs and cones, the bark, and the polished section of the tree-trunk will help people to compare and identify trees they do not know, and the samples of lumber will show the usefulness and beauty of each variety for finishing purposes. The samples of the tested woods and the photographs showing testing machine; and methods of operation will illustrate the work which is being done in the government timber testing laboratories. The series of enlarged photographs illustrating the varied work of the Forest Service will be a particularly interesting feature of the display. Among the subjects pictured will be rangers fighting fires, or building the roads and trails; logging and burning slashings on the Missoula and other National Forests; building forest nurseries, raising young trees and reforesting naked lands; surveying and mapping of the forests; the grazing of stock on the National Forests and reasons why it should be regulated; and the results to be obtained by good forest management. Many of the photographs which are to form this part of the exhibit have not yet been taken, but they will be collected during the coming summer so that the display will be complete early next winter. THURSDAY, July 1 OOK AHEAD man who succeeds in life is the man who looks plans for the future. He realizes the fact that absolute necessity if he intends to rise in the world. A little study convinces him that only through a bank account can he attain future prosperity, and he acts accordingly. 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