The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-10-09
GOT WONDERFUL RESULTS
FROM IDAHO TIMBER
EXPERIMENTS BY PROFESSOR SHATTUCK AT
UNIVERSITY REVEAL GREAT POSSIBILITIES
EXTRACTS RICH BY=PRODUCTS
Tests Regarded Successful and May Open Up New
Industrial Field--WiIl Deliver Extended
Address Next Week.

When the stumps and roots OF the
forest trees which are found covering
the vast area OF almost $4,000, 900 acres
OF timbered land in Idaho can be made
through the process of destructive dis
tillatiOn TO produce commercial by.
products of sufficient quantity to net
S30 per cord for all of the wood from
which they are removed it would seem
high time for an end to be put to the
indiscriminate destruction every year
OF thousands of acres OF stumps on cut.
over land in this and other states of
the northwest The process through
which these almost unbelievable values
can be realized from the millions of
acres Of cut-0yer lands Is so new Ig
this section that its adoption by tIm1er
owners will in all prObility be very
slow. Yet the time will come before
many years, thinks Professor Shat.
tuck, head Of the department Of for.
estry Mt the Idaho university, when
every stump and every stick OF waste
wood will be turned Into dollars and
cents and the heretofore expensive pro.
cess of clearing cut-Oyer land will be
and made not only In
expensive but actually source of pro.
fit.
Nowhere in the northwest has the
received much attention from timber
owners, the possibilities that lie In
that direction being but little realized
Even experiments toward this end are
such a novelty that they are yet looked
upon with considerable disfavor and
the forestry department at the Univer
sity of Idaho is practically the only
place thus far in the northwest where
extensive experimentation in the posi-
bilities that await the adoption OF
scientific methods in the conversion of
forest by-products into commercial
commodities is being carried on.
Investigated Other Plants.
Before commencing the numerous
by-products experiments which are
now in progress at the university, Pro
fessor Shattuck visited the large by
products plant on the National Wood
Distillins company at Wilmington.
North Carolina and made thorough in
of the methods employed
there in working forest by-products
into commercial commodities The re-
suit of his Investigations convinced
him that the possibilities in this direc.
than in the eastern and southern states
owing to the difference in the quality
Of the timber. Western wood is much
more easily worked than that in the
east and is richer in the secretions
which can be transformed into mar
Setable form.
Sent Samples Feast.
On his return to the university Pro.
lessor Shattuck sent number of sam
)les of the various varieties of western
woods to Wilmington for testing pur-
poses and so promising were the re.
suits which were obtained that the
National Wood Distilling company
shipped one of its small refining plants
o the university for use by the fores-
ry department in its experiments. The
Use of this plant is costing the depart
nent nothing and it is being operated
With splendid results.
Extract Valuable Liquids.
By actual experiments with several
arieties of timber Professor Shattuck
las acquired results which seem little
ess than marvellous. In one experi-
nent, for instance, that was made with
four-foot stump on Moscow noun
ain more than 220 gafIves of CONNER
ial liquid were extracted, the process
f extraction being operated right or
he ground byfa simple and compare.
vely inexpensive device At the same
me this great quantity of crude liquid
as extracted the stump was destroy
d to depth of six feet below the
urface of the ground
All Have Commercial Value.
every variety of wood, even tama-
ack, that is to be found in the north
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