The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
THE FORESTS OF AMERICA
An Extensive Exhibit to Be Made
at the Buffalo Fair.

Unique Structure Erected IL Ac-
cOmmOdate the Display-The Walls
Formed of Sections of Trees and
The building provided for the forestry
exhibit at the Pan-American EXPEDITION
viii be an object of unusual interest on
account of its peculiar style of construc-
tion. The walls are formed OF sections Of
trees indigenous to different Pan-Ameri-
can countries, and the roof of bark slabs.
The foundation is of random rubble work,
laid with large stone, with large granite
powders for the footing of exterior posts
and angles. To the visitor it has the ap-
pearance of structures found in out-of-
the-way regions where construction is ac-
complished by men with the axe their
only tool.
Thus the building which has been pro-
vided for the housing of one of the most
important displays at the exposition is
made striking exhibit in itself It's di-
mansions are Sc by 132 feet. 1t is situated
in the southern portion of the grounds,
east of the main approach. Its nearest
neighbors are the Six Nation Indians
large stockade and log and bark cabins.
There will be extensive displays of fores-
I
sessions will make splendid showing of
native woods.
The United States Government forestry
exhibit will form a division of the i'm
portant display to be made by the De-
partment of Agriculture in the Govern
ment Building. 1t will consist mainly of
a Photographic display illustrating the
relation of agriculture to forestry, supple
mented by maps and sections of CONNER
cial timber trees from the Appalachian
Mountain region.
The Photographic display will embody
sixty framed bromide prints enlarged
from photographs, together with twenty
colored and uncolored transparencies.
The bromide pictures range in size from
16 by "a to u by 30 inches, and the trans
parencies are from by to by 1efeet.
The subjects to be illustrated by bro
mides and transparencieS comprise brteIly
the various methods of numbering, their
effects on forest production and on the
adjacent agricultural lands Inc ef1ectS
of forest fires on the forest land and the
relation of such denudation to the now
of water In streams and the suppl OF
water for irrigation will be fully SHOWN
The principal types of trees and foIests
will be Illustrated to show the size ana
lumber production of forests occupying
|. agricultural and non-agricultural LANDS
The value of preserving certain types OF
protective forests on watersheds Tor the
conservation of water important TO adj
jacent large areas OF agricultural lands
will also be illustrated
special feature of the Photographic
display will be the illustration of indi-
vidual trees of the mammoth Bigtree, the
Giant Red FRS, White FRS, and the Su-
gar Pines of the California Sierras forests
by colored transparencies six by ten feet
IL is interesting to state in this connec-
ton that these transparencies are the
largest ever made. Typical agricultural
valley lands in the East and West viii
be illustrated on the same scale, showing
the special protective agencies Of natural
adjacent mountain forests and planted
shelter belts of forest trees. The region
and the subject from which these illus
trations were taken are representative OF
the principal agricultural and forest sec
lions of the United States.
Fourteen colored maps of the United
States will show the distribution of the
principal forest types and species the dis
tributiuu of rainfall in relation to that
of forest areas. and in connection the To-
cation of State experiment stations.
Nineteen large slabs. four feet high and
six inches thick, with bark attached and
one surface polished, show the size, quail
ity and character of the commercial tim
Der trees of the Appalachian forest re-
giOn.