The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
wAH0G ANY MsLLs or LOTHIAN,
How the Trees Are Gut. sawed and Pro-
pared for MaPkea.


| Frou hs Nee Oykraas Tsmss- E~ns~va,
The busy avs In The mahoxany n,lll ar.
| going day and night ut this SEASON. % ,h.
year. There are seasons during which
only day runs ara made, but the strain d.
| on just now. and the Machinery never ssor.
| During the twenty-four hours aoso f.rJ
OF lumber are cut In the mill. Month .fter
| month the ships come over. at least TWEEN
! cargoes year coming to anchor besId..
the gunwals. There - no such thing
bringing the logs IN ballast. They compo...
the ship'G entire cargo. A great man.
| ships are devoted to this enterpri-a amt
to them there h no other object In life rut
to yet the logs from tho tropical ports and
bring then, to New orleans and rnloat
them here and go hack for more Ten
! million foet year of mahogany comes int.
| New Orleans, and - partly manufacture
! here.
| In Mexico. Honduras and Central Amer,
, the contractor gives o. for a single TIRE.
/ This ia CHEAP enough. But IL " the eNp.n%a
OF getting IL out that Coints. and thar make.
! mahogany an expensive lumber. u stand.
deep in tho forest in the midst OF an aln,o-,
imprnstrable jungle. There are no grove,
of thcm-,ho ,rc.s are scattered. parhaps
not more than two to an acre. IL may hs
that there II no water cocr-s at hanh on
| which the logs can he noated to the port.
Inc tree has TO bs located by the -hrnter'
whose business u IL to roam through the
forest in search Of mahogany trees and T.,
blaze "A way to them. "a that they MAJ he
! found again. Then the workmrn rgs,
cut their Iaboriois way to tho tree. using
for the purpose the deadly magh.fr
with which number OF non from ~ = sec
ton made unpleasant acanainiancr G'oac
in isas. The ma"heie turned into prIn-
ing hook makes "A very enectiv. vrapnn
how ever. and in the course Of tar" The men
get to the tree.
II Is a beautiful tree. tall and Shspalv.
with the lowest branches At least sixty feet
from the ground AT the bottom - y hug.
swelling, after the mn nner of the cypress
and the tree ~ to be cut above that ak
of eight feet from the roots. The frst
work to he done il to build pin tform
around the trunk, 50 that the cutters c'n
sta nd upon il and weld their axes. In he
course of time down comes the great MON
a rch OF the tropical forest. crushing through
the thick growth around IL.
The workmen trim iJ up. Gus IL into lengths
md manage to get u h u!od nd rolled TO
the neHre~, crce';. There - must lie TO
await the floods OF tn" r,inv s"ason. which
will lift IL and Curry IL down strel M and on
to the ocean port. There tie .oVs are
piled on the beach 20 wait for vessel
and when 1t comes are rolled back into the
water and RATED and pulled out to the
ships side. always Ola ngerous under
In king. for the water IL rough Once
beside the weasel the derricks are nut 10
work and the ,oRs are lifted over one b.
one lowered with much difficulty into the
hold. and when enough logs have cone
aboa rd the vessel n ready.
II may well bs believed that mai orany
does not claim the respect In its own land
that IL does in ours. There has been much
comment on the fact that IL - used for
~ iIroad ties i'm the Ia nds across the Gulf.
md this may well be. An immense amount
| Of 10 In 50 far from the coast and from any
present means OF trnnsportat ton that 1t
prs cticaily ia yaiueless to the owner of the
land. 30 he views the waste OF 1t with com
par. tive Indifference.
II IL gratifying to know that there -
whola-als. destruction III the mlhoRInr
forests The Young timber has to he pr-
served, A. on. time IL was the law Nh
no tree should be cut which squa red II.
than eighteen iuChe~-uuite large r.
a. one will notiCe-but that has he,oI.'
ra ;her dead letter. and trees smaller 90 =
this ar. cut every day. Still there j. -Nrr'
effort to preserve the timber and even 10
do a n apprrC IN bl. mount or r~foreststtC.
Tn" trees arc of very slow growth. m'u.
of the large trees. IL IL said. bearing -
dencc Of being az least 900 years old m
whom there il a. relessness or greed h.,
cutting It means much TO the future VI Inc
ma hogany business.