The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-21
Association Decides on
Prizes at Meeting
BRIDGE is REBUILT
Cullman Banker Returns From Bir.
mingham Hospital-County Health
Officer Makes Report for Janu-
ary-Pythians to Celebrate


to offer community prizes. very much as
the state fairs offer county prizes, but in
restricted amounts. Beet one. in which
Cullman city is located. is excepted. John
| Rehberg, secretary, has furnished the
amount of the awards, and they total
| handsome sum.
j. C. Norwood, who has bought the
Cullmsn Tribune from the former editor
Mrs. J. II. Gillespie made his entrance
| into local journalism this week Mr. Nor
wood has perhaps the best equipped
weekly in Alabama. including Mergen-
| thalers and other new machinery
Contractor w. A. Scholsse will rebuild
the concrete and stone bridge over
Crooked creek at once. This bridge was
| just recently finished and cost the coun-
| ty several thousand dollars
Joe Kramer, assistant cashier of the
German bank, who was seriously injured
by slipping on the streets in Brming-
ham as he alighted from street car. is
| home again from the St vincent's hos
rital
William Zimmerman, travelling repre-
sentative of the Cincinnati Packer
was in the city Thursday lie recon-
mends a much larger area to be put in
strawberries. and calls attention TO the
fact that only very few markets are
now supplied.
| Asa Griffith, a pioneer of this county,
who was one of the first settlers in
Hancevile, the oldest town In the counts.
| is very i'll.
County Health Officer DIR. R. H. Baird
reports for the months of January fer
| Cullman county. Births: White. IS: black.
/. Deaths: White, %; black, /.
The knights of Pythias lodges of the
| city and county will celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of that order next Tuesday
night by smoker and banquet Toasts
VIII be offered by three of the oldest
MEMBERSHIPS Oeser, G. w. Hanlin and
G. A. McMinn.
serves. This is estimated at 400, 900, 900 900
feet.
There will be, then, in the year 1880.
| OF standing timber in the United States
| 4oooo,oo,VO feet, which are i'm the United
states forest reserves, and about 10000 :
1
| timber.
As recently as 1910 the annual cut of
! timber In the United States was estimated
at about $4,000, 10000 feet but by reason
| of the increasing demand in the United
states for timber the cut increases by
about 5 per cent each year.
| This rapid depicting of the timber for
ests of the United States explains in
great measure the increase in cost of
| timber to consumers
In the Year 1915
Next year there will occur a conjunction
of conditions which will be of very great
consequence to the owners of the timber
lands of British North America. In that
year, the Panama canal will presuma bly,
be opened to navigation. At the same
time the timber men of British North
America vii be prepared to take advan-
tage of the fact that the tariff law of the
United States eXacts no duty upon lum-
Der.
The estimate is that the amount of
standing timber in British North America
equals, If 1t does not surpass the stand
ing timber in the United States as that
was 25 or 80 years ago.
The Canadian authorities have been
making careful estimates of the cost of
cutting timber and saving ii into mer-
| chantable lengths or shapes and then
transporting IL Dy way OF the Panama
canal to the seaport cities upon the At
lantic coast of the United States 1t may
be that 1t was some statistics contained
In theSe Canadian estimates which justi-
fed American capitalists in making large
investments in the Canadian timber lands
upon the Pacific slope of British North
America. These estimates, which were
verified over and over again, led to the
emphatic statement of the official asso-
ction of those who are engaged In the
lumber business in western Canada that
Canadian timber can be cut, sawed and
otherwise made merchantable, placed
| upon steamers which will navigate the
Panama canal and then make Atlantic
ports of the United States, there deliver
| ing the timber to the railroads. This tim
| ber. the estimate shows. can be marketed
| in the midwest or that part of the west
which is east of the Mississippi and north
| of the Ohio, at price considerably less
| than that which American cut timber
commands
II this estimate be found by test to be
accurate, then the competition which
the Canadian cut and manufactured tim
ber will successfully offer should soon
lead to a reduction In the cut of standing
timber in the United States.
The American capitalists who have gone
into timber and Investment In western
Canada have initiated those who, 10 or
American capital in Argentina and Uru-
quay for the purpose of overcoming the
inevitable deficiency in the meat supplies
of the United States, principally beef
and veal, which these men of capital fore
saw long before the American public
realized that the time was at hand when
we should no longer export beef, but
would be compelled to import it,
A Great Revolution
OF course. the capture of a considerable
part of the markets of the United States
in which lumber is leading commodity
by the Canadian cut lumber will result
in some and perhaps very great revolu-
tions in American trade and manufacture,
particularly in railroad transportation.
The leading railroad systems of the
northwest have depended In part for
profitable bushes upon the transporta-
tion of lumber from the standing timber
lands of the northwest to the markets
the middle west and of the east Twen-
ty-five years ago the upper peninsula of
Michigan was furnishing billions of feet
each year of cut timber some of it of
very high grade. But the large timber
mills which were established in that
upper peninsula in the late seventies and
early eighties have in many cases been
dismantled since the once magnificent
nine timber of upper Michigan has practi-
cslIy been exhausted and the vast
stretches of fields over which this timber
grew are now stumpage which is rapidly
being converted into arabic land.
Military Election at DOthan
Dothan, February 20.-(Special.) )-Elec-
tion of second lieutenant will be held