El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-07

and million feet were consumed in
fence rails, posts and telegraph poles.
One hundred and eighteen million Ieel.
mostly white oak, went into ties for
the railroads zone hundred and slNtyIlVe
million cubic feet were used FOR TIM
bering mines, and million ad quar-
ter cords Of wood were turned luLo
alcohol Many billion cords OF IRE
wood were burnt. A vast amount or
timber was used for slaves and Tor
heads Of barrels, and enough DarreI
hoops were turned out to give i've 10
every man, woman and child IN the
United States and leave some to spare,
We used more than 3,OOO,OOO CORDS OF
native wood in our paper mills. rms
was mainly spruce and hemlOckf ana
millions went into notions OF one Aln4
or other The tooth pick, for instance,
is little more than splinter but we
have one factory in Maine when MAKES
q half billion of them every year We
have other places which turn OUT
clOthespins and wooden tools by the
hundreds Of millions. Several hundred
acres Of forests are annually burnt up
as matches. and more than o,VVU acres
acres are cut into shoe pegs IN Lle
sDace Of u months. And then there Is
the enormous amount that goes into
furniture, and into carts, carriages anu
cars Of all kinds The shingles, most
of which come from the Iar west are
800 millions in number, and the
laths are four times as great There
is a steady increase in all OF these
pprOducts, so that the lumper we are
using is beyond conception enormous.
All told it sells for something ike
1900 million dollars a year; and the
business Of getting il out ana puIllns
IL on the market annually employs
more than one million men, VINO re-
ceive over 100 million dollars in wages.
Uncle sam Warns Against Waste
This consumption is enough to make
us pause and wonder where we snall
get our wood for the future This is
one Of the warnings Of Uncle sam.
Datrfarch. WWhO is doing all ne can 10
emf down the waste. In the national
forests Of~~which I write more 1artner
on he has his men on the OUTLOOK Lor
fires. and he gives plans Tor cutting
and caring for any private Forests so
thai the woods may last longer. Any
man who owns trees can get pans
from the forestry service as to now
TO treat them, and the government VIII
send him experts. Applications Tor
such assistance have been already re-
ceived from owners of 100000 acres.
and in some places only the ripe trees
are now cut, and the owners are study
ing how to keep out the fires
It is estimated by the department OF
agriculture that. if the private owners
will cooperate the forests OF the
southern pine belt can be paToled LOT
two cents per acre each year, ana thar
the northern forests can be watched az
a cost of four cents per acre, while
the Rocky mountains and Pacific coast
forests would cost much less. They
estimate that all the forests in private
hands could be protected from fires
for less than SO 600 900 per year. and
thus result in a saving Of far more than
that in the value Of the timber, and
in the preservation of the young trees
for the future.
Some Lumber Losses.
The government is doing all it can to
cut down the waste. 1t sends out ad-
vice to the lumbermen as to how to
Ia ma n-1ar-a
Of the sawmills as 20 the best kinds Of
machinery. Many Of the railroad ties
are now heWn out with the AK. If cut
with the saw this alone would save
more than two hundred and eighty mil
lion cubic feet of wood every year.
About two thirds of the wood in trees
chopped down for lumber is lost, and
q large part Of that intended for mine
timbers. cOOperage and piles goes to
waste The government gives advice
as to the tTeat ment of timber in or
der to keep out the insects and rot.
The insects annually destroy more
than eight billion cubic feet, but this
may be prevented by soaking the tim
Der in chemicals The same method is
used against rot something Ike four
teen hundred million feet Of boards be-
ing so treated last year. We are now
using about sixty million gallons Of
creOsOte and nineteen million pounds
Of zinc chloride for this purpose.
AS to the losses by fire. they are
sun OF enormous extent FROM IeoU
to 1895 they averaged s5O.OOO.00O per
annum OF all the private forests not
more than one percent has now an eff
Cient system Of fire protection, and
only the largest Of the private owners
keep a forest fire patrol
The government estimates that about
one fourth of all the timber logged out
I'm the forest goes to waste. This comes
from careless cutting the leaving of
large stumps and the not using the
tops and branches. In the mills the
thick gangsaw blades turn a great deal
Of lumber to dust. and it is calculated
that If thin band saws took their places
the saving would be more than two
thousand million board feet per an
mum.
Another feature Of the government
work is the treatment Of the turpen-
tine farms. The turDentine comes
from the resinOus gum which oOzes