Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-31

copyrighted by Frank q. Carpenter)
TTAWA .--Imagne yourself seat
( ed 10 one of Telephone Bells
tetrahedrai kites, lying over
the biggest lumber yard OF the
world. refer 10 the immense forest
area of the Canadian dominion. II be-
gins on the Atlantic and ends at the
Pacific. stretching from east to west
for more than 5000 miles Starting
IN Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
you look down on enough big trees 10
cover the state OF Massachusetts,. There
are lumber mills working and the pro"
prietors Of the London newspapers are
putting UP pulp mills there to supply
the paper for the greatest reading con-
stituency of Europe. Going westward
we fly over the vast forests OF quebec,
and into those OF ontario from where
great part OF our white pine now comes.
Here the forests extend from the shores
OF Lakes Superior and Huron nofth-
ward 60 those OF Hudson bay ana go
on to the west almost 10 the setting
sun. They take in thu Lake OF the
Woods region. and then switch TO the
north and skirt the wheat belt, until
they lose themselves In the giant woods
of the Rockies and the Pacific.
British Columbia has the same eli
mate and vegetation as Washington and
Oregon, and It's trees are surpassed by
none In the world. They are some
times 40 80 or SO feet thick single
log win load car and one tree cut
into boards may make train load
Timber, which will square two or three
feet and make a log so feet long, Is
spoken OF there as q tooth pick, ana
such tooth picks are exported all over
the world This British Columbia tim-
her belt * almost untouched. IL IL as
wide as from New York to Boston, and
IL runs north and south about as Tar
MS from Philadelphia TO Detroit II
has red and yellow cedar, white and
yellow pine, red FIR, maple, and oak.
1t Is one Of the most valuable pieces
OF woods left on the North American
continent,
THE WOODS ABOVE THE LAKES.
Flying back to the east. let us look
for a moment at the woods beyond the
Great Lakes Above Lakes Superior
and Huron Is an extension of the for
ests we had In Wisconsin and Mlchi-
gan. Fully one-third OF the trees are
a,,, az !, I'M ,.,o,rs ola and ,,a,x, have
a 49, sn"araI ce,,,,,r,ns Tbay cona,s,
of white pine. birch and maple and
other hard woods with u strip of spruce
at the north vast enough to make the
wood pulp for the newspapers OF gem
erations TO come. These woods are
furnishing large part of the white
pine OF the United States. -Four million
pine logs are iloated down every year
,,ans ga 10 ,ha r,raat IaLas ana acrnss
90 ,ba frnj,ed states We choroe du9
49,, 90 .h,s'a ~ IN a,,s, -,
~, ~ II oo,,as r., 10, the ,,,i,, ioad
49,
AMERICAN LUMBERMEN IN CAN
ADA.
,, a.,
H ny .a.ls "'t t,uis W. p,s s.ai ',
are rapidly acquiring more. Many OF
naopie Connectic,,t AYES n,,i do,yn No
rs.,' IN e'',,1,N w ',', ~ =" 80
ican machinerv are sawinr the lows I'm.
IN boards ~, American ho,,ses
have moi manv 81 orr n,n,her,,er
bere ma have cbattod with them about
the business one Of the host nosted
is n w Arnold. who is largely ossocl.
nted with General pusselI A AIoer IN
nine lands I'm sIInnesoto ana who ba Z
also large interests I'm british Colum.
hin ana Canada He has saw mills
along the Great Lakes and shins nine
and other lumber 10 The Tinted states
In INV chat I asked him about the wood
which we are now getting from cana.
da, He replled,
"The United states Imports All sort
Of lumber from here. II gets consider.
able pine, red birch. balsam ana spruce
but the most important OF all is pine
Nearly all the white pine used east o
the Ohio comes over the internatlona