The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-12
Plenty Of Timber Standing
 in the State of Washington

Spokane. Wash, April 1l.--(speciai.) There Is enough timber standing ih the State of Washington to build 5,000.- 900 six-room houses sufficient to shell ter one-third of the population of the United States. or furnish ties for l. S93.s3s. miles of railway track, or con struct plank road three Inches thick and 500 feet wide twice around the world.
 load 10.000.000 forty-five foot cars of 10000 feet capacity. equal to s5.s27 miles of trains, or one train reaching three and half times around the globe at the equator.
 This timber Is contained in areas aggregating 35,ooo square miles on the eastern and western sides of the Cas- cade mountains. and expert cruisers say that the density Is not equaled any where on the American continent.
 The hewing of a yellow fir log, sixty inches square and ninety feet in length at Buckley recently excited con- siderable comment. but the annals of the lumber industry in Washington contains many more remarkable incl dents.
 When President Taft was in the Pan- anna Canal Zone recently. his atten- tion was called to several spud sticks in the big dredses and he asked where 1t was possible te obtain such timbers. These sticks, each ss by 40 inches and more than ninety feet In length, the superintendent told him. were shipped from Bellingham last summer.
 Challenge Answered.
 The recent challenge of Portland, for the distinction of producing the big gest timbers sawed in the world, has been answered from many parts of Washington. Portland mills sawed two sticks thirty-six inches square and sixty feet in length. Bellingham came back with a sawed spud stick for a dredge forty inches square and ninety two feet in length. and boasted having furnished timbers 12s feet in length.
 There is a cedar tree in Snohomish County which is declared to be the largest tree on the continent, exceed ing in girth by three inches the larg- est of the trees of the famous redwood forest of California. This tree meas ures lo4 feet and four inches in cir conference and 1t Is more than 150 feet to the first limb, which is five feet in diameter.
 On the west slope of the Cascade Mountains a giant red fir was recent ly blown across the track of the North ern Pacific Railroad. Traffic was block ed by the monster log. which measured eight feet in thickness
 Theer was no saw within miles that was big enough to cut the timber, and as the railroad company could not wait the five days required to saw a section from the huge log dynamite was placed in deeply bored holes and the aged tree blown to splinter& It was easier to repair ten rods of roadbed than to saw through eight feet of solid red fir.
 In Clallam County, according to ofi- eial measurements, the timbered area runs 20, ,OO0. .OOO feet to the square mile. The stand on smaller areas is even more dense. One acre recently showed 50O, ,000 feet of standing timber.
 A forty-acre tract in Clallam County contains $500, 900 feet of timber. There are $500. 900 feet of fr 3sO.000 feet of spruce and 1sO.000 of hemlock. The quarter section of which the tract Is a part contains 1s.00o.o00 feet of fir, B. 100000 of spruce ana 100000 of hem lock.
 A Pacific County mlll cut 600,O0o feet from a little less than two acres. The logs averaged from 12.000 to 14.00O feet each.
 Too Big to Saw. The prize winner, according to Spo- kane millmen, should be a log sent from Puget Sound to San Francisco. Thls was so DIE that no nllil Couiu ea W 1t, the trimming having to be done by hand with axes. The log measured thIrty-four inches by hfty-four inches and was 104 feet long when hewn in- to shape. The largest log ever cut in any mill In Washington was seventy two inches in diameter at the smaller end.
 The remarkable feat of erecting a fourteen room house from the lumber of a single yellow fir was recently ac. complish ed at Elma. There was nearly 1 ss,000 feet of lumber in the logs of the ! tree. Six logs, twenty eight feet ir length, the largest seven feet in diam eter, at the smallest end. were made from fir. The measurement of the stump inside the bark was exactly nine feet. The trunk was straight and | for 100 feet not 6 limb appeared The ! total length of the tree was more than goo feet. Tho lumber wss worth near