The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1895-10-26
Various Topics.

Various Topics.
According to report to the State
Department from United States Con-
sui Bigelow, at Rouen, the worlds
production of wool has not increased
during the past year, but actually di-
minished.
Mining and Scientific Press, San
Francisco: The Southern Pacific
management, after careful survey of
the field, has come to the conclusion
that three barrels of oil will do the
work of one ton of coal. The oil can
be obtained at the present time for 40
cents barrel, or 81, 20 for the three
barrels, as against Sd, 80, the of one
ton of coal, so that the expense of fuel
upon that system would be reduced
from So, 446, 623, SO, the cost of fuel
in 1894, to 1852, 5000 per year, a
saving of 50, ,584, 4G7, 80, provided tl e
relative values of the two fuels re-
manned the same.
Baltimore s.;ia The report Of
Charles r. Dodge, special agent of
the Department Of Agriculture, on the
cultivation of ramie and on the ma
chimes invented to prepare it for the
market, show that tho plant cannot
be cultivated proitably il the United
States north Of the Gulf States. Pro
longed cold Weather kills it. A warm
climate and sandy soil that will pro-
duce three crops il one season are
wanted. In CHINA the tibsr is prepar-
ed by hand and the commercial sup
ply is obtained from That country.
Labor is to expensive in this country
to permit ramis to be cleaned for the
market with any profit by The Chinese
method. Hence the need here OF ma
chimes to get rid Of bark and other
valueless parts. Such machines have
been invented, but they have TIL now
not been fully success, al. Success is,
however, thought to be in sight, and
when it is attained Southern farmers
can further diversity their crops.
Salt Lake Tribune: There is moth
ing new in the following item, but it
is one that ought to bo printed in
every newspaper in the United States,
and in the timber regions it ought to
be printed in great letters and posted
on every dead wall. that every man
might read and appreciate it:
"Professor Runnebaum Of Berlin.
sent by the German Government to
examine the timber resources of our
Pacific Coast, expressed amazemsnb at
the waste he witnessed here. lIe saws
the end of American forests is fsar st
hand unless they are protected bf law
against reckless cutting and confIag-
rations. While the leading countries
of Europe are trying to make trees
grow, the Americans are sweeping
away not only the mature trees, but
the saplings, which are the rightful
heritage of future generations. "If
nothing is done by your government"
In his opinion, "you may live to see
lumber shipped from Germay to Pu-
get Sound. When the l.rofessor was
IN Oregon and Washington, the whole
coast was darkened with smoke from
fires devouring enormous tracts of
timber unsurpassed in the world. His
remark that the life of tiile forest is the
life of the people is no flourish of
rhetoric. 1t is verified law of ma
tire, but trifed with or ignored as
yet in America.
1t is said that of the 80, 900 Indians
belonging to the Sioux tribe, 1000
belong to the Episcopal, Presby yterian
and Congregational churches.
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