Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-21
ALBUQUERQUE TO the FRONT
Many AbIs Articles In Various Cities
Excite Public Attention,
AMERICAN lUMBEnMAA THE LATEST

ing, Tor freo advertising is never given !
extensively to inferiority or even med.
iocrity. That the city Is benefting
bN the advanced position given her in
;ne public eye, Is apparent TO all resi-.
dents whose experience enables them
= compare the present business act
witty and the glowing prospects for
the future with the status Of these
same conditions but few years ago.
The latest and one OF the most i'm
/ portant OF these notices of New Mex.
/ ico's metropolis, appears in the Amer
/ lean Lumberman OF Chicago, of the
/ ,atc OF NoyohJcr II. Til is the lead
| ms periodical 1l tire world devoted eX
| c.usiysly 10 iumbc ing Interests; and
! fO!tJpatcy ior Albuquerque the edit
/ o. OF the Lumbc .man, j h. Deifbaugh,
/ was in the city tor severa, days during
/ the territorial far. He devotes three
| pages of his lais se and popular journal
/ to a description OF the city. the fair.
ana more especially To the American
| Lumber companys S plant at Thu place.
| Mr. De1baIgh was returning from
! California To- ms home at Chicago. and
/ stopped on here TO Visit his Old time
| friend, .dajor Ira h. Bennett, general
manager OF the American Lumber
| company business in New Mexico
lhe result of his visit is one of the
most pleasing and vivid accounts OF
! this section and city, and OF the Amer.
| .cah Lumber cGmpanys plant. which
has yet appeared in pr!nt.
! On his way In from California this
expert in timber and lumber matters
made himself thoroughly familiar with
the resources Of New Mexico and Ari-
zona along these lines.
He says that the forest belt start
ing in eastern Washington, and sweep
ing around 20 the southwest passos
through Idaho, Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona and down into Mexico. These
forests vary In the amount OF timber
produced. from $4,000 feet TO the acre
&c II 900 or even 5000 feet. The tim
Ter consists practically of hut =. 20 va
tietles. sugar or white pine and hard
or yellow pine. The first is used for
interior finish OF buildings. while the
latter supplies material for railroads,
furnishing timbers. bridge lumber,
trestle and 9th ar structural work.
The New heXlco and Arizona bet
which is one aud continuous, is about
sixty miles in width by 300 miles in
length. AS yet, but a very small pro
poi tion of the forest has been felled,
Much OF the timber lands OF the two
territories has ben included recently
+ (. the national forest reserves, work
ing great hardships alike to the lum.
! Der and grazing industries of the sec
| ton. In these reserves much OF the
, timber is ripe and ready TO cut into
lumber. Delay in cutting will spoil
the lumber, while present removal
would be of positive benefit TO the res
ervati1ns because with the removal
O.. the mature trees a dense mass OF
D underbrush springs up, retaining mois
I ture in the soil much better than dc
J, the old trees.
Mr., Deffbaugh says many true
o pleasing and advantageous things
about the fair. OF which he was an in
G terested student, but 1t was the lnm
ber interests CT Albuquerque which
n caused him 20 stop here. and 10 thes,
he devotes chiefly his facile pen. The
city mills OF the American Lumber
company were not completed at th'
time of the editors visit but Genera
o Manager Bennett took him through
n the plant, and the familiarity OF thu
visitor with such industries enabled
s. him to say;
"Workmen sWarmed over every par
a, of the MILL some OF whom were bus.
cutting places for the installation o
d Lew machines. others adjusting tn
r different parts of log carrier. live rolls
etc. Down in the engine room gan
N o. men sweated. tugged and toiled
placing In position the huge Filler
'g Stowell 20x40 engine. which has
O. maximum capacity OF 1000 hors
power and which will be used to fui
W nish daily about $50 horse power [
operate the mill and auxiliary ms
d, chinery.
- The log pond was complete an
n. ready to receive the water, which ca
a. be furnished either from the 'snak'
ditch or by the pumps from wells a
IL. ready installed by the company to PR
Nv vide against any unforeseen emergel
nj sy or any accident that might happe
n. to the former. The pond as II stoo
al the time the visit was made en-
braced about ten acres OF hole In III
Z ground and Mr.. Bennett was plal
~ ming to add an additional five acre
IN tC Il later on so that a large amour
or OF logs could be kept on hand and thu
Al. insure a constant supply OF cuttin
81 stock. A canal leading from the pO1
be to the haul up has been provided al
ar everything at this end OF the mill is
~. readiness for the start.
"The mill will be equipped with ~
band saws which will be supplement
er &c by two gang edgers, a horizont
er band saw, on which great reliance
gh placed. trimmers ana modern sy
he TEN OF conveyors. The boards. dime
he sion and smaller lumber VIII leave d
ar mill at the side and pass out over
cd sorting table, which Is being equ
lse ped with the most up TO date mach
iery obtainable. The timbers and hi