The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1895-08-01
TREES OF THE SOUTH.
A Great Forestry Exhibit at the
Atlanta Exposition. ~.
To BE One of the Most Elaborate Dis
plays OF the Wood Industries Ever
Witnessed In This Country
A Promised Surprise.

Forestry WILL snare With 1nfneTdlS
beautiful building, eighty by three
hundred and twenty feet, built all of
tree trunks, with the bark intact, and
ornamented within and without with
minerals and many interesting plant
forms peculiar to the south, such as
gray moss and palmetto. The central
portion of the building is an octagonal
form of low tower, and in which a
first-class restaurant will be conducted.
The roof, reached by a spacious stair
way in the central dome, will be used
as q promenade and garden. AS the
building is adjacent to "The Terraces" :"
the Midway of the exposition, and
faces the plaza, the view from this
roof will make it favorite resort Of
visitors. The rotunda will contain the
exhibits of the Forestry division of the
Agricultural department and of the
United States geological survey, which
will stretch into the wings on either
side.
The Forestry division, says the
Washington Post, is preparing an elab-
crate exhibit Of the forest resources of
the southern states which will aston
ish even the southerners themselves
with the extent and richness of their
domain. Especial attention will be
given in this division to the results of
the tests of southern pines recently
made by the forest division, ard test
ing machine in operation, with many
blocks showing the result of tests, will
be one Of the features.
DR.. Fernowis having prepared a series
of relief maps to show the effects of
erosion in southern states in places
where lands have been cleared for cul
tivation that had better been left to
forest growth, and the process of re-
claiming such lands by brush dams and
reboisement will also be shown. An
elaborate display of the naval store in
d1stry and a collection of foreign woods
for cultivation in the southern
states will also be included in the
government exhibit.
The remainder of the east wing of
the building will be devoted to the
general exhibits of the forestry de-
part1nent. The roof of the building is
trunks, which divide it into three aisles
The central isle is to be ornamented
with a colonnade Of polished columns.
Each column is made Of selected woods,
joined to show their grains,
then turned and polished. They are
twelve feet high and one foot in diam
eter, and each one will be surmounted
by a group of flags. On either side of
the colonnade the exhibits of the
southern shipping ports will be ar
.angcd. A walk through this colon
1ade will thus reveal to the visitor the
eading characteristics of all of the
great shipping ports of the south, from
Norfolk to Galveston, and it is expected |
hat this will prove unique feature of
he exposition.
The southern railroads, with charac-
eristic enterprise, are devoting great
lcal of energy toward being adequately
represented at the Atlanta exposition,
md several of them that are largely in
crested in the understanding trade
ire preparing to show the northern
'isitors the forest wealth along their
outes by rich displays in'the Forestry
The side aisles will be devoted to the
displays of lumber manufacturers and
0 forest products, On one side will be
the coniferous timbers-the
lines, cypress and cedar, while on the
ther the numerous economic varieties
f southern hardwoods will be dis
layed. Very few people have any idea
+ the great timber wealth of the
outh, and Mr.. Fernow has planned
exhibit of lumber and wooden
manufacturers that shall at once be ed
cational and attractive in character.
The southern pines have within the
asst few years become formidable III
ais of the white pine of the north, and
nth reason; for the long-leafed pine is
/ every way better adapted to heavy
obstruction than any of the northern
oecies, while the short leaf is deserved
: popular as house-fnishing lum ber
he cypress is now coming rapidly to
le front as a rival of the southern ;
ines. Few woods present the beauty
nd variety of grain that are found in
lrled and wavy cypress, while it's
reat durability is creating for it con-
antly increasing demand. The Cy-
ress association will make special
lhibit of cypress lumber, and it will
? well worthy of inspection.
The states of North Carolina, Ken .
lcky, Tennessee and Arkansas are ,
rich in hard woods, which
SO abound throughout the northern
lrt of the gulf states. All these will
; elaborately displayed, and the re- }
1t will be collection of peculiar at i.
activeness to the true lover and one }
lculated to arouse interest in the
ind of every visitor
For those who care more for the ap-
ications of natural wealth, the ex-
bit OF forest products will command $
tention. In this class the processes /
manufacture are to be everywhere I
ustrated. Aside from the many c
ares composed Of wood, such as /
operage, basket and bent wares, hol- c
ware, ETC., and the product of the ]
ae rosin, there are forest industries r
culiar to the south. Among these +
w be mentioned moss had1inr nooda