The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-16
TIMBER OF WASHINGTON.
Thirty-fve Thousand Square Miles o
Dense Forests.

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There is enough timber standing in
the state Of Washington to build 5,OOO,.
600 six-room houses, sufficient to shelter
one-third of the population of the
United States, or furnish ties for $685..
939 miles of railway track, or construct
plank road three inches thick and SOC
| feet wide twice around the world. Cut
into lumber these trees would load TO-.
| 100000 45-foot cars of 10000 feet ca.
pacity, equal to s5,227 miles of trains
or one train reaching three and half
times around the globe at the equator.
This timber is contained in areas ag.
gregating $4,000 square miles on the
| eastern and western sides Of the Cascade
mountains, and expert cruisers say that
the density is not equaled anywhere on
the American continent.
The hewing' of yellow fir log, go
inches square and 80 feet in length, at
| buckley recently excited considerable
comment, but the annals of the lumber
industry in Washington contains many
nore remarkable incidents.
When President Taft was in the
Panama canal zone recently his atten-
ton was called to several spud sticks in
the big dredges and he asked where it
vas possible to obtain such timbers.
These sticks, each SO by 40 inches and
more than 80 feet in length, the super
intendent told him, were shipped from
Bellingham last summer.
There is cedar tree in Snohomish
county which is declared to be the
largest tree on the continent, exceeding
in girth by three inches the largest Of
the trees of the famous redwood forest
of California. This tree measures 1O4
feet inches in circumference and it is
more than $50 feet to the first limb,
which is five feet in diameter.
In Clallam county, according to Of
fetal measurements, the timbered area
runs 20,000,000 feet to the square mile.
The stand on smaller areas is even more
dense. One acre recently showed $780,
900 feet of standing timber.
A 40-acre tract in Clallam county con-
tains 100000 feet of timber. There
are s,500,000 feet of fir, 100000 feet of
spruce and 10000 of hemlock. The
quarter section of which the tract is
part contains 100000 feet of fir,
2.700,00 of spruce and 100000 of hem
lock.
A Pacific county mill cut 5000 feet
from little less than two acres. The
logs averaged from $4,000 to $4,000 feet
each.
The prize winner, according to Spo-
kane millmen, should be log sent from
Euget Sound to San Francisco. This
was so big that no mill could saw it,
the trimming having to he done by hand
with axes. The log measured "a inches
by "a inches and was 104 feet long when
hewn into shape. The largest log ever
cut in any mill in Washington was 72
inches in diameter at the smaller end.
The remarkable feat of erecting a
14-r6om house from the lumber of
single yellow fir was recently accom-
plished at Elma.
Not far from Snoqualmie Falls
giant tree was blown across a precipi-
tous canyon year ago. The trunk
terms footbridge 10 feet wide. The
log has been levelled and teams are
often driven across it by venturesome
drivers.
A mammoth cedar tree was blown
Town near South Bend few weeks ago.
It measured 66 feet inches around
Fhree feet above the bulge of the root.
The cedar was II feet in diameter rs
feet above the earth.
There is a cedar tree IS feet in diane.
rer at South Bend. At Montesano is
mother cedar 10 feet inches in diane
Ter. On the Johns river there are
,roves of cedars that vary from 10 feet
o "a feet through and only few are
.oIlow.
There are also large trees in Yakima,
Okanogan, Ferry, Asotin, Spokane,
Stevens, Whitman and other eastern
'ounties. The largest stand of white
vine left intact on this continent is
"artly in Whitman county and extends
irto northern idaho The largest fir
trees on the east side are in the Sulli-
AN lake district in Stevens county.