The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-05-14
SOME MONSTER LOGS.
4 Fourteen-Room House Can Be Built
OF Single Tree.

The hewing this week at Buckley
OF yellow fir log sixty inches square
and ninety feet long has excited com.
ment, but the annals of the lumber
industry of Washington contain even
more remarkable Incidents.
When President Taft was In the
I Panama canal zone recently his at
tention was called 10 several spud
sticks In the big dredges. and he
asked where II was possible 10 obtain
such timbers The timbers were
shipped from Bellingham, Wash. last
summer. Each was 36 by 10 inches
and over 90 feet long.
The recent challenge OF Portland,
ore. 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 for Panama SO
inches square and 60 feet Ions. Bel
bingham Wash. came back with
sawed spud stick for a dredge 40
inches square and 90 feet long. and
boasted having furnished timber 1926
feet long.
The prize winner. according 10 To-
cal mill men. should be a log sent
was so big that no mill could saw II
the trimming having TO be done by
hand with axes. The log measured
81 inches by "a inches and was 10f
feet long when hewn into shape. The
largest log ever cut in any~mill in the
state was - inches in diameter at
the smaller end.
Near Elma. Wash. the remarkable
feat of erecting fourteen-room
house from the lumber OF a single
yellow fir was recently accomplished.
There We're nearly $4,000 feet OF
lumber in the logs OF the tree
Six logs 2S feet long. the largest
seven feet in diameter at the smallest
end. We're made from the fir The /
measurement OF the stump inside the !
bark was exactly nine feet. The |
trunk was straight, and for over 100 /
feet not limb appeared
The total length Of the tree was /
over 500 feet The lumber of the /
tree was worth close TO $1,000.
The corporation owning the land /
growing this tree has hundreds of 4
such frs. many OF them too big 10 be
handled by the equipment now pos
'essed by Washington saw mills.
Not far from Snoqualmie Falls a
'ear ago great tree was blown
across a PERCEPTIONS canyon. The
runk forms a footbridge ten feet
vide. The log has been leveled and
cams are often driven across il by
drivers.
A monster cedar tree was blown
Town few weeks ego near South
Send measuring sc feet 5 inches
round three feet above the bulge Of
he root The cedar was II feet in
iameter - feet above the earth.
At South Bend a giant cedar tree
S vet standing which is is feet I'm
iameter At Montesano IS another
edar 10 feet inches in diameter
IN the John river there are groves
I cedar that vary from 10 feet to 24
eet through. and btu few are hollow.
There is a cedar tree in Snohomish
ounty, owned by the Weyerheuser
imber Company, which is declared
D be the largest tree on the CONT
ent. exceeding in girth by three
lches the largest OF the trees of the
imous redwood forest OF California.
his cedar measures 104 feet 4 inch
: IN circumference and il is over $50
aet 10 the first limb. which is be-
eyed 10 be over feet in diameter.
he most famous tree Of the red
GODS is l04 feet in circumference
Seattle Cor New York Sun.