The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-11-26
Headquarters Transferred to
Madison and Chicago,
Products investigation Hereafter Be
Done at Wisconsin Town and
Utilization Be Established
in Illinois.

Washington. - Preparations have
been completed for the transfer Of all
the governments forest products
work to Madison. Wis, where the
United States forest service products
laboratory will be located. and to Chi
cago where the headquarters of the
office of wood utilization will be es-
tablished.
The new forest products laboratory
being erected at Madison by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. which will co
operate with the government In its
forest products work and which is to
cost approximately $50. 600. is now in
the course OF construction. The lab
oratory will be a fireproof building
Of brick trimmed in white stone and
is expected to be ready for occupancy
upon January 1. In the meanwhile
temporary Offices will be located at
1910 Adams street, Madison.
On October | the Yale timber test
ing laboratory was discontinued and
the forest service equipment there
shipped to Madison. The laboratory
here at Washington was discontinued
al the same time. The timber testing
laboratory at Purdue. Ind. will be OPP
Grated until the middle OF December
when il will be discontinued and it's
equipment shipped TO Madison.
The offices having general super
vision over all The work OF the branch
Of products will remain temporarily
ut Washington. w. l.. Hall. assistant
forester. continues In charge Of
branch OF products, and McGarvey
Cline will be director OF the Madison
laboratory. The work of the labora-
tory will be assigned TO five Offices. as
follows:
Wood preservation. which viii study
all problems related to the ifnpregna.
ton OF wood with p~reseryatives and
other. substances,
Wood chemistry, which will handle
all work bearing on the chemical
utilization of forest products. Wood
distillation, paper pulp and other fiber
products. chemical analysis Of creo-
sotes. turpentines. etc. are the prin.
cipal lines handled by this Office.
Timber tests. which will have
charge of all tests to determine the
strength and other mechanical prop
critics of different woods.
Technology. which will study the
microscopic structure Of wood. meth.
DDS OF seasoning and driving IL, and
other problems of a purely technical
character.
Maintenance. which will have
,harge of the filing and computing. IL
will also be responsible for the pnr
chase of supplies and general care of
the entire laboratory.
The class work in the laboratory
may be separated into three kinds. as
follows:
1.-The investigation OF problems In
experimental research.
2. Experimental work In
lion with commercial plants to verify
laboratory experiments on a CONNER.
,ial scale.
3. Cooperation with outside parties
tor the purpose OF assisting them In
applying principles and processes of
recognized commercial value with
which the service Is thoroughly "a
niliar.& 20
The work Of the Office OF wrod utilf.
sation at Chicago will consist of
studies of the wood-using industries
of various states, the study OF woods
IN manufacture and of the methods of
iisposing of mill waste. the collection
If statistics on the price of lumber at
The mill and at the principal distribut-
ng markets of the country, and the