chicago into the north country to the forests of the province of quebec canada here the chicago tribune has acquired bass tracks of timber land more than two million acres about the equivalent of the combined area of the state of delaware and rhode island so that it will in september and october shipped some of them part of the tribune fleet others chartered for the purpose carry a variety of stores down the broad st lawrence and across the gulf to the towns and camps that lie on the edge of a wild frontier east of the eastern boundary of the state of maine as two and a half million pounds of hay and three hundred thirty thousand pounds of potatoes a quarter million pounds of flour one hundred forty thousand pounds of course nine hundred thousand cigarettes and seven thousand pounds of tobacco very old one outpost of civilization with a population of only about one thousand still has many big city conveniences such as hot and cold running water central heat and efficient sewer system electric light and a later a burn otherwise they would dry out and constitute an invitation to the deadliest enemy of a forest fire no one is permitted to smoke in the world at all about a fire guard after the tree has been cut reforestation is encouraged though it is accomplished by nature so efficiently that no prolonged assistance from man is required to promote recall one day in the late autumn the wind comes from the north bringing snow and sending them are quick toward the bottom of a monitor then until when our country is held in the unrealized grip of winter with temperatures as low as fifty degrees below zero days are short for not so far away as the arctic circle and work must move along briskly and important activity is that assigned to the cruising team traveling by dog sled the men choose a site and pitch their tent then they go through the woods measuring trees and marking those that are from eighty to one hundred years old and hence are ready for the  is now wrapped in a fluffy blanket of snow but the cabins are cozy and warm and the food is no need to call them twice swinging an axe in the woods and whether it's guaranteed to work up a first great appetite not much dinner table conversation but a whole hearted devotion to the matter at hand music is a popular entertainment men a few miles farther south is calmer bay the newest tribune settlement where the tribune is building a new town power plants and paper mills all during the navigation season from june to october poll there is no deviation from the highest standards throughout the mail to ensure a superior grade of strong white paper logs from the mechanical process are placed in a battery of grinders each of which can transform twelve cords of wo into high grade pulp every twenty four hours the logs are forced under pressure against huge grindstone water flows over them continuously and from the bottom of the machine issues a steady stream of calls at frequent intervals samples are taken from the newsprint for paper has been made from three the next step is to transport it from the paper mill to tribune tower into the hold of one of the tribune fleet of ships go the rolls of paper weighing approximately eight hundred pounds each then across lake erie st claire huron and michigan moves the parade of paper to tribune warehouses near the mouth of the chicago river a few more steps than trees will have become tri man's struggle with the elements comes closer to fruition soon by the magic of printers ink that paper will live as a tribute net set of a tree will become the pages on which will be recorded completely and without compromise  the ships are being unloaded and some of the rolls are sent the rectory to tribune tower by total rolls proceed from the ship back gravitate to the tunnel in the warehouse where they were carried down a steep incline by a card railway during the winter months whenever occasion is impossible thousands of tons of newsprint are removed from the warehouses every rolls are handled with the by turing machine that can be moved to any section of the warehouse and paper is rolled from the stack to the machine that lowers the at the rate of two a minute they attain a speed of thirty five miles an hour before they pass over a braking device that's been down as they reach the unloading platform in the subbasement tower they're on the chemical tipping device onto a ramp down which they move to an automatic elevator the elevator is geared to the same speed to roll them in and and so the paper most continuously from the warehouse through the tunnel up the elevator  real room underneath the press the empty dollies automatically from the platform to a compressed air gun that starts them on their return trip through the tunnel to the warehouse as the rolls around loaded from the elevator on to the real room it is an outstanding example of the american principle of private initiative with interviewing tower the staff goes about the daily business of producing a newspaper across the city desk passes the news of metropolitan chicago to be scanned by the coffee reader over this department preside the city editor directing his forces so that the news of the day will be accurately reported interestingly presented from the press association then hundreds of tribune correspondents comes the news of the country by telegraph to be handled here under the direction of the sports editor our experts who write the story of baseball and football of golf and tennis of course racing is boxing and all the other recreational activities of this sport loving nation still another important part but is that a business where trained writers present the news of markets and trade directed by the metropolitan editor are five separate neighborhood newspapers which are part of the sunday preview and here is the sunday room itself a busy department where under the direction world over saying and doing the tribune readers should know about if they are to live happier richer and more useful life thinking to answer that all inclusive question such is the objective of tribune reporter cameramen feature writers an editor providing these various men and women each trained in his or her special field or the assistant editor in chief and the managing editor to coordinate their output into one harmonious home ready for use by the writers splendidly equipped reference library and a reference file room containing more than three million clippings seven hundred thousand photographs and seventy five thousand and gravy long ago the tribune realize the value of pictures and bringing people and  unforgettably to it meter and so every day scores of pictures apply to some of them supplied by photographic services some taken on the scene by tribune photographers and still others pulled in the tribune completely equipped studio