The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-04-15


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theaf trees w0uia load taHoe.uop
F q. foot sats ~ soo 600 fef 5aparft
r1aHl e. s+gti miis ~ tfsihs ot
our tIaiu rsatbinr three and h1lf
iImps around ihr fioh, al the rgua
.tUr
This lmhot b. contained iu AREAS
arrrrraiiue $4,000 a1nHr ml.rs on
iho eastern and eoN,tn slides of the
Cascade mountains aud ,tpefi rrui
sen aa} taat ths density g. bees, equal
.ti anywhere ou 'hr Anne. lean CON.
iiuont
The heeiur ot o. tejIoe nf los 600
inches SQUARE aud 1o feet 10 lfnaih
nj Buckle, recently excited consid.
crable comment bat the annals oi
the lumber industry in Washington
contains many more remarkable IN.
cidcnts
when President Taft was IN the
Panama canal zouo recently his at
tontion was called 10 several spud
sticks 10 the big drcdgcs and he ask
or where IT was possible to obtain
such timbers These sticks. each 80
by so inehe and more than 90 feet
in length. the superintendent told
/ him. were shipped from Bellngham
last summer.
The recent challenge of Portland.
! for the distinction of producing the
biggest timbers sawed In the world
has been answered from many parts
OF Washington Portland mills sawed
two sticks SO inches square and 60
feet in length. Bellingham came back
with a sawed spud stick for dredgc
! 40 inches square and 81 feet IN
! length, and boosted having furnish
ed timbers 1875 feet in length.
There is cedar tree in Snoho-
mish county which is declared to be
| the largest tree on the continent,
exceeding in girtb by three Inches
the largest OF the trees of the fla
nous redwood forest OF California.
This tree measures l04 feet inches
in circumference and II Is more than
/ $50 feet to the first limb, which is
| Ave feet In diameter.
! On the west slope OF the Cascade
mountains giant red FIR was re-
/ Gently blown across the tracks of
1 the Northern Pacific railroad. Traillc
was blocked by the monster log
which measured eight feet In thick
ness
There was no saw within miles
! that was big enough to cut the
I timber aud as the railroad company
could not wait the Ave days re-
! UNlI'H w Nu" u S't'i'H li'ih INV
huge log dynamite was placed In
deeply bored holes ana the aged
tree blown TO splinters It wns cas-
| Ter to repair 10 rods Of roadbcd
than to saw through eight feet of
solid red mr.
| In Clallam county, according 10
official measurements, the timbered
area runs 2o,o00o00 feet to the
square mile. Tho stand on smaller
areas TX even more dense. one acre
recently showed 100000 feet Of
standing timber,
A A0-acre tract In Clalam county
contains 100000 feet of timber
There are $500. 900 feet of hr,3eo.-
900 feet OF spruce and 10000 of
hemlock The quarter section of
which the tract In a part contains
,000,000 feet or FIR, 100000 OF
spruce and 100000 OF hemlock.
A Pacific county mill cut 100000
feet from little Less than two
acres. The logs averaged from i2.-
600 to $4,000 foot each,
The prize winner, according to
Spokane millmen should be log
sent from Puget Sound to San Fran
cisco. This was 80 big that no mill
could saw H. the trimming having
to be done by hand with axes. The
log measured "a inches by 81 inches
and was i04 feet long when hewn
into shape. The largest log ever cut
in any mill in Washington was ~
inches In diameter at the smaller
end.
The remarkable feat of erecting II
la-room house from the lumber of
n single yellow iir was recently ac-
complshed at Elma. There was
nearly 5000 feet Of lumber In the
logs of the tree. six logs, 81 feet In
length. the largest seven feet In dia-
meter nj the smallest end were
made from the tlr The measures
ment OF the stump inside the bark
was exactly nine feet. The trunk was