The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-25
SEEING TIE FAIR
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Needle Two Great Medicinal Plants.
The Most Beautiful Game Bird In the
World-other Birds That Delight the
Sportsman.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY
MARK BENNITT.1
A twelve room house built from a
single Logo Impossiblel Not a bit Of it,
for there's the log. You'll find it In the
open at the northwest corner Of the
Palace Of Forestry. Here are two OF
the largest things Of the worlds fair
The largest squared timber ever exhib-
ited four feet square and forty-two
feet long, and the largest round log
ever brought intact to an exposition,
log nine feet in diameter and thirty
feet IN length. The square timber CON
taius 1900 and the round one 1900
feet Of lumber, board measure. Either
would furnish enough lumber to build
a twelve room house, and roomy rooms
too. They are from Oregon. California
shows log Of greater diameter, but 1t
came to the fair In several parts.
Even a wide awake Oregonian can
learn new things about his own state.
This statement applies to the citizens
and exhibits Of all states. Governor
Pardee Of California said the other
day after visiting the California exhib
It's. II am prouder than ever Of Cali
fornia. Her resources and riches are
greater than / supposed. / have learned
many things about California that |
did not know before"
But was speaking Of Oregon and
her forestry. 1t would take the Great
Northern railroad 100 years to draw all
tile lumber out Of Oregon Must I
prove it? Twenty trains day, loaded
with 10000 feet Of lumber, would car
~ 100000 feet In 800 days not quite
2,eO0, 100000. Oregon has 300.000.000-
900 feet still untouched q have Ed
mund p. sheldon's word for it, and
what he does not know about Oregon
forests would keep other people guess
ing; therefore If would take 100 years
to move the Oregon forests If they all
were to stop growing.
Mr. sheldon viii show you that the
forests Of Oregon are in the western
lpart Of the state Less than half the
state is wooded He has here ninety
varieties Of wood, all polished and IN
their best garb to show their cabinet
value. Then, again, lie has them just
as they came from the saw in great
lplanks. The entire backs of the long
sections devoted to the two indoor dis
plays are used for the display Of these
commercial woods.
Then there Is the fancy part of the
display and the forest byproducts. You
may see pictures made by the dextrous
Iinlaying Of woods In their natural col
4 ors landscapes and water scenes. fierce
animals and gentle fowl--all In wood.
I had never thought much about burls
till had spent some hours at odd times
! 6fifong these forest shows. But the
decorative possibilities in burls are be
yond what most o. us have contemplate
ca. Al burl IL an excrescence or IN over
grown knot. When the saw cuts through
lit and the surface is polished and var
nished, the tangled, knotted, twisted
grain Is revealed, and natures patter
/ is one that never loses its fashion or III
beauty. Panels and table tops and I
thousand other things Of burl win new
er lack admirers.
Here in oregon you may see tht
shredded pine needles for pillows ane
mattresses. pine needle oil bonbons fol
sore throat, pine needle cure for rheu
matism, pine needle cigars, pine needle
soap, toilet water. face cream, Ointment
and what not. The aroma of the pint
needle you may have always with you
far more curative than the horse chest
| nut in your trousers pocket,
oregon has two great medicinal prod
ucts which she sends out to the rest
of the world to keep us well or make
us grape root and cascara. OF tbs
grape root only the root is used, ane
YOU are liable to have 1t In your mex
prescription. The tree IS ten to fifteer
feet tail, SPRAYING and nnhandsome
but good. OF eascara bark Oregon
shipped hundred car loads last year
says Sheldon. | like to fall back OF
Sheldon. These medicinal trees grow
wild and abundantly, and the prescrip
ton counter may continue to flourish
TO come back to sheldon again, dom
| fail to see hts herbarum. If You should
/ make herbarium make it Ike Shell
dons, with wings on post and al
the plants and flowers and kindergar
ten records Of trees arranged ike ;
giant book whose pages are wood ans
glass, where every plant Of Oregon
looks back at you with a iifelike smile
and perennial gladness
I The greatest thing in Oregon Is her,
| only by virtue Of the camera Thu
mountain scenery The snowy birth
4 places OF glaciers the peaks of Noun
Baker and Mount Hood are here onl!
Ia pictures, but what picturesi He
millions OF desert acres waiting fo
i the development Of irrigation posi-
bnities are evidenced only By maps
Camera prints Of forests strike on
with awe. You may look down fores
4 roads that seem like canyons with tim