Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-23


Mexico, South Dakota, Minnesota, Lou
isiana, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
1da,. New York, New Hampshire and
Alabama.
Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio, Maryland
and the District of Columbia sent oak.
Fir was sent by Washington and Or
egon, and California sent beautiful
piece Of redwood. Utah sent honey To-
Gust; Idaho, cypress; Montana, larch-
wood: Wyoming, box elder; North Da-
kota, Eastwood; Nebraska and Indi-
ana, cherry: Kansas. Oklahoma, Iowa,
Kentucky, North Carolina and Penn
sylvania, walnut.
Texas sent piece Of mesquite, Wis
consin contributed birdseye maple,
Tennessee chose red cedar and Missis-
sippi, gum, while both Michigan and
Vermont are represented by fine pieces
Of maple. Connecticut sent chestnut;
West Virginia, poplar; Virginia, juni-
per; New jersey, white cedar; Maine,
beech; Massachusetts, elm; Rhode
Island. mulberry, and Delaware. sassa-
6ras.
Tho st1te Of Illinois furnished
Eat deal Of material for the map. In
he constellation it Is represented by
fine piece Of hickory selected by the
forestry department Of the state. But,
IN addition, for all Of the wood by
which the water surface Is to be repre-
scented Illinois sycamore has been Sc
lected. This material has been treated
by creosote plant at Palmyra, where
the timber In the log is subjected to
pressure BY which the sap Is driven
out and q coloring material injected.
When the log is afterward sawed into
thin boards the grain bears greenish
hue, almost exactly like the color often
seen on Lake Michigan's surface. The
grain Of the wood has a wavy appear
ance, and from this material the two
oceans that border the nation and all
Of our great lakes have been shown on
the map:
The governor Of Pennsylvania sent
piece Of wood OF great historic interest.
1t was cut from walnut tree that
stood on Culps hill at the battle Of
Gettysburg. The block that was sent
contained bullet that had been shot
into the tree during the great conflict.
Practically all Of the leaden missile re-
mains IN the block that now fits into
the map, and It indicates the exact
geographical location Of the famous
battlefield. Sixty-three bullets were
taken from, the tree from which the
Pennsylvania block was Sawed.
Iowa sent a piece Of a door panel
taken nom the door Of the home Of
one ofthe pioneer judges of the Hawk
eye Shte, and Utah sent a sample Of
wood from.lts great Mormon temple.
The blocks Of wood were reduced to
= thickness Of about quarter Of an
inch, then marked of from stencil
made from standard map Of the Unit
cd States.s Each state block was then
subjected to the jigsaw and sawed to
its exact. geographical shape. Then
they were dovetailed into each other,
the blocks fitting as evenly as If they
had grown in the shape in which they
were formed. The base to which the
blocks were glued is made Of five ply
Mhftewood. the piles crisscrossing each
other. the whole making a thickness Of
about.an inch and half.
Our neighbor countries have been
brought into the map, Mexico being
represented by mahogany and Canada
BY white holly. The Missouri and the
Nissisappi rivers win be shown clear
y b. . streak Of light wood, and the
Rocky mountains also will be shown
~ . different wood effect. The CAPT.
::.s..ss vpsste:. :ee states are marked by sink-
ing pearl stars in the proper geograph-
teal location.
Tho map viii be as large as any Of
the larger wall maps issued by the
government. It will be framed In solid
mahogany. to correspond with the fin
ash Of the cabin in which 1T will be
placed and the whole surface covered
by aplate glass one-f fourth finch thick.
The work has been done by James
Haxhn and his three sons.-J. L. Graf
q Chicago Tribune.