Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-23
SEEING THE FAIR
 IN DETAIL

Contain Great PossiDiIities-Beauti
 of the BurI-Apotheosis of the Pine
 NeedIe-Two Great Medicinal Plants. The Most Beautiful Game Bird In the
 WorId-Other Birds That Delight the
 Sportsman.
 ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY
 MARK BENNITTl
 A twelve room house built from A single log? Impossible! Not 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, a log nine feet in diameter and thirty feet in length. The square timber con- tains 12,OO0 and the round one 14,OOO 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 it came to the fair in several parts.
 Even 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- its: "I am prouder than ever of Cali fornia. Her resources and riches are greater than supposed. have learned many things about California that I did not know before"
 But I was speaking of Oregon and her forestry. It would take the Great Northern railroad 15o years to draw all the lumber out of Oregon. Must prove it? Twenty trains day, loaded with 250,OOO feet of lumber, would car " 5,oO0,O00 feet-in 365 days not quite 100000 900. Oregon has 90O,oO0, ,O0O,- GOO feet still untouched q have Ed mund F. Sheldon's word for it,. and what he does not know about Oregon forests would keep other people guess ing); therefore it would take 15O years to move the Oregon forests if they all were to stop growing.
 Mr. Sheldon will show you that the forests of Oregon are in the western part 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, he has them just as they came from the saw in great blanks. 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 inlaying of woods in their natural col ors-landscapes and water scenes, fierce animals and gentle foWl-all in wood.
 I had never thought much about burls till I had spent some hours at odd times among these forest shows. But the decorative possibilities in burls are be- yond what most of us have contemplat- ed. A burl is an excrescence or an over- grown knot When the saw cuts through it and the surface Is polished and var nished, the tangled, knotted, twisted grain is revealed, and natures pattern is one that never loses its fashion or its beauty Panels and table tops and a thousand other things of burl will new CT lack admirers.
 Here in Oregon you may see the shredded pine needles for pillows and mattresses, pine needle oil bonbons for 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 pine 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 we'll or make us so-grape root and cascara. Of the grape root only the root is used, and you are liable to have it in your next prescription. The tree is ten to fifteen feet tall, sprawling and unhandsome, but good. Of cascara bark Oregon shipped a hundred car loads last year, says Sheldon. I like to fall back on Sheldon These medicinal trees grow wild and abundantlX, and the prescrip- tion counter may continue to flourish.
 To come back to Sheldon again, don't fail to see his herbarium. If you should make a herbarium make it like Shell don's, with wings on a post and all the plants and flowers and kindergar- ten records of trees arranged like giant book whose pages are wood and glass, where every plant of Oregon looks back at you with lifelike smile and a perennial giadness.
 The greatest thing in Oregon is here only by virtue of the camera-the mountain scenery. The snowy birth places of glaciers, the peaks of Mount Baker and Mount Hood, are here only in pictures, but what pictures! Her millions of desert acres waiting for the development of irrigation possi- bilities are evidenced only by maps. Camera prints of forests strike one with awe. You may look down forest