The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
DANCER OF WOOD
FAMINE IS seen
Trees In Forests Must Be Re.
placed or Great Scarcity
viii Result.
SAW MILLS SMALL FACTOR
Pulp Mills Eat Up Many MiIiIons %
Spruce Every Year Scientific
Forestry Has Not Caught Up
to Tree Slaughter.

Bangor, Me.-When the world gets
through with its arguments about war,
peace. the Cor al League of Nations
and all that Is expressed In the
short and ugly word rum" 1t should
turn its most serious and intelligent
attention to tree farming. Positively,
there must be many more trees. or a
constant and liberal replenishment OF
the existing supply, or presently we
shall suffer great Inconvenience from
the scarcity of many useful and some
ornamental things.
In the simple and innocent old times
a tree was just 30 much standing lum-
Der, and lumber was cheap. Within
the memoir of men Of middle age
first-class spruce logs sold In Bangor
at $11 to $14 per thousand feet. The
men who cut the logs were paid SIS
to $40 a month and board. the board
consisting chiefly OF q bunk to sleep
In and 'beans twenty-0ne times q
week." The men who "drove" the
same logs. that Is, personally con-
Quoted them down the roaring brooks
and raging rivers. received for their
Iabors and hair-raising risks. 1925 to
So q day. according to their athletic
skill and their fame as white water
men," and Of course all hands were
fed. although the menu was character
lied by monotonous simplicity and
the service subject to many irregu'
larities and postponements. These
same logs were sawed In mills that
ornamented the banks of the Penob-
scot for nifty miles or more. chiefly
between Milford and Bangor. . dis
lance Of about fifteen miles. The mill
hands went to work very early In the
morning and kept at 1t until long az
ter everyone else had quit Cor the
day, being rewarded to the extent Of
about $50 q month and all the corned
beef, cabbage. etc, they could eat In
twenty to thirty minutes. three OF
four times q day, according to sea.
son.
Profit TO Manufactursr.
The understanding spruce that was
sliced or by the saws was worth
S14 to $21 per thousand feet, accord
Ing to quality and dimensions. This
would seem to allow Of slight profit
~ the manufacturer. but there are
various ways Of measuring logs and
lumber-woods scale. boom scale and
mill scale--and during the golden err
OF Bangor's spruce trade the jugglery
of figures was such that 1000 feet Of
logs. boom scale would 'saw out
anywhere from 1.15O to LOO feet o.
lumber, 100 feet being . fair aver
age. SO. even In the gloomiest days
when heavy spruce dimensions wer'
selling at $21 to $23 and the Bangor
mill men would sit In their ofhcei
chewing tobacco and GUESSING the hare
times, they were In fact making I
pretty good thing-especially II the!
happened to own the land the log
were cut from.
Then, last OK all. the coasters whit
carried the lumber to Boston. tn
sound and New York got $1.76, So
and $3.50 per thousand feet for de
livery at those several destinations
that Is, the rates quoted prevailed
during fairly good times. In dui
} times lumber was carried from Ban
{ cor to Boston a. cheaply a. $1.2o =
! $50 per thousand. to Long Islan'
J sound ports at $1.75 to ~, and to Nev
York It 50 to 92.25.
Now everything h changed. @
Names normal log cut Of 1.O00O0O'
II -- $3.50. 60 ---. -