Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-17
lion on which is displayed the seed and

ton on which is displayed the seed and
| leaf of the tree.
AT the eastern or lake front entrance to
the building is vesubule worth going
miles TO see. II WAS erected by the South
ern Lumber Manufacturers association,
and was designed to show the value Of the
various species of southern pines. The
walls and ceilings are OF this lumber
Throughout. polished and ornamented, and
the result is rich and pleasing beyond de
scription. The exhibit cost sl0,e00, and
WAS money well invested by the enterpris-
ing southrons.
New South Wales makes a fine showing.
her enclosure being formed of polished
boards. She exeels in eedars. One plank
Of cedar Q feet long and . feet broad, was
recently sold to the Pullman company for
$50. Brazil has a neat pavilion and
comprehensive showing of her wonderful
woods, including the dye and ornamental
specimens, the latter polishing like bronze.
Kentucky sends more than one hundred
and fifty varieties of wood, and the en-
rance to her pavilion is through the heart
of a sycamore tree Id feet in diameter.
British Columbia shows fine naples and
tirs and cedars and has limb from fir
tree that is itself pretty good log, being
TWO feet in diameter and solid. West Nir-
yinia, the wonderful timber state which
was for a long time overlooked by capital
ists but which now is being heavily drawn
upon and is amassing fortunes for those
who were smart enough to obtain big hold
ings astonishes great many visitors with
he variety and value of its wood.
Ohio has novel display, showing the
wood, the bark, the leaves and burrs of
her varieties, both polished and unpol-
ished in well-arranged pavilion. She
also shows 800 specimens of medicinal
barks, roots and herbs Michigan is mag
niiieent and comprehensive. and so is Wis
consin North Carolina is intensely inter
.stng for she has not only a display of
products but large and exceedingly fine
pictures of her grand native forests, In
addition to this George Vanderbilt, who Is
constructing at Asheville. that state, the
finest country home or palace in America,
makes an exhibit of his own. His head
forester WAS educated in the German
school. and has prepared the exhibit OF his
employer in thoroughly scientific man
ner.
OF course every one wants to see the
marvellous display of California redwoods,
walnut, naples and oaks. Great trunks
are shown, and also slabs large enough for
he floors of rooms in single pieces and all
beautifully polished The Arizona petri-
lied wood is among the most wonderful OF
natures handiworks. Wisconsin is rich
in oak, cherry, black walnut, locust
spruce, tamsrack. diamond willows and
canoe and paper birches. Minnesota and
the Dakotas make surprisingly good show
ings, while Oregon and Washington eX-
iibit forestry riches equal To those Of Cali
'ornia The latter state has n cedar slab
If giant size that was cut eighteen and
'ne-half feet rom the ground, and cedar
hingles that will neither split, warp nor
rot Oregon proudly exhibits "A saw-log
from a tidelahd spruce tree that was 305
feet high, or fifty feet higher than the top
If the Administration building, and that
vas upwards of 800 years old. The log was
mt twenty five feet from the ground and
: nearly ten feet in diameter.
France and Germany make scientific for
.stry displays, while Japan shows with her
usual art what may he done with the won.
lerful bamboo and other of her wood
PRODUCTS.