El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-18

a. 200. 0oo, 200 feet OF lumber for train
ING camp buildings for the navy. and
the navy viii require a great deal for
small boats OF various kinds
In addition 20 these large items
there are others which seem small
until one realizes the extent of the
orders. Take for instance. rranspor-
tatlon- More than 50. 900 vehicles have
already been ordered for the army.
Inese orders have been placed with
the wagon makers and they viii re-
1uirs at least e5.0O0.OOO feet of high
grade yellow pine and oak.
And then the soldiers must have
poles for their tents. They must have
cots 20 sleep on, and every rifle has
70 nave a gun stock. which rs made
OF wood The gun stocks should be
preferably Of walnut. bur they have
been using birch I'm the contracts for
the allies, and probably birch and
gum will 30 used for the new rifles
T. takes about 10 feer Of lumber to
make a gun stock. and 10 VIII take
lo.oon,Noo feet 10 make the stocks for
= million new rifles. our army Of q
million men viii probably require
100000 rifles. and this means So
100000 feet Of the finest hard wood
Best Quality Needed for Airplanes.
Among the machines which require
fine lumber are the airplaues IL Is
said that the allies have 10000 FIXING
machines on the western front. and
that Uncle sam viii probably ship
thousands 10 France The requirement
here is light strong material Ash
Is used for the bent woods and q va
rlety Of different woods are en-
ploEed for the rropellers The woods
are Joined in such fashion as 10 give
the product the necessary stren-rh
and still prevent checking and u-a-1-
To build 10000 airplanes we shan
need something like 20. 100000 feet
or rough lumber, or enough 70 floor
400 acres
Greatest Lumber NTarke~ In World.
The United States IS the greatest
lumber market OF the world. our for
ests are now bringing in about four
teen hundred million dollars year
and the wood We annually cut is
enough 20 pave a road IS feer wide
with lumber foot thick reaching all
the way from the earth TO the moon.
and leave some 20 spare. In a single
y ear We consume forty five or fifty
billion board feet OF lumber. and
enough firewood 70 supply every fam
lly IN the United States with Two
cords and more We use one hundred
and fifty million railroad ties. and
three and a half million telegraph
ana telephone poles
We are annually cutting into We
neering more than two thirds the
amount We shall use in the new army
barracks; and the wood that goes into
the mines. into barrels. boxes and
otner packing receptacles. and in
MAKING pulp for the newsnauers.
amounts 10 hundreds OF millions Of
Ieet- The waste is enormous. and
-here Is also a great loss from fires
and insects. so that the annual drain
upon the United States forests is said
10 be in the neigh orhood OF one hu7-
lred oilion board feet. The annual
growth Is only about one third this
amount. so that 10 viii be seen that
We must have better forest p-otar-
ION ana economization OF our forests I
viii in time disappear.
Half OF Woodlands Cut Ausv.
As 10 is now. almost half ~ the
woodlands Of the United states has
been cut away When Cant ToIr
smith landed at thes mouth Of rbeI
lanes, not far from where tbey are
% erect the great training camr 10
ne navy, this country had a stand
'l merchanta7lc timber which has
'een estimated by the forestry sII-
noritleS at more than five thousand
'llllon board feet 70 was enough to
ave made boardwalk a foot wide
md an inch thick one billion miles
ong. To would have been sufficient
O. nave covered a boardwalk feet
vide from the earth TO the sun. with
uolEn left over 20 have heIte5 old
lotner Earth AZ the equator with A
ana OF boards three and a half miles
n width That little remainder. if \
Ut INTO flooring, could have carpeted I
,eW ENGLAND. New York. New JERSEY.
delaware and Maryland The total
rea or our original woodlands was
lore than eight hundred and fifty
1iHlon acres tt was greater than
ne third Of all Europe
This immense forest was divided I
1to five tracks. There were the
orthern woods. the home OF the white
me. covering an area six times as Z
reaf as that Of Ohio. or about 81
mes the size Of Massachusetts There
-ere the southern forests. made I
lrgely or yellow pine and cypress
-hich were about equal I'm size to ths 7
sntral forest. which lay between The
antral forest was almost all hard
FOODS. TX had an area larger than.
he timber lands north and south
nd the lumber within 10 was about
air as much more as i'm either OF the
lner two divisions II DO were
-retched around the world it would
ave made a band OF forest about
10 miles in width
Big Trees on Pacific Coast
Tn addition TO these there wera n. b
ocky mountain forests. which con q
lined something like four hundrs5 =