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ENOUGH TIMBER IN WASH-
IN WASHINGTON FOR 5,-
000,000 SIX-ROOM HOUSES.
Spokane, Wash.—There is enough
timber standing in the State of Wash
ington to build 5,000,000 six-room hous
es, sufficient to shelter one-third of the
population of the United States, or fur
nish ties for 1,893,939 miles of rail
way track, or construct a plank road
three inches thick and 500 feet wide
twice around the world. Cut into lum
ber these trees would load 10,000,000
45-foot cars of 20,000 feet capacity,
equal to 85,227 miles of trains, or one
train reaching three and one-half
times around the globe at the equa
tor.
This timber is contained in areas
aggregating 35,000 square miles on the
eastern and western sides of the Cas
cade mountains, and expert cruisers
say that the density is not equaled
anywhere on the American continent.
The hewing of a yellow fir log, 60
inches square and 90 feet in length,
at Buckley, recently excited considera
ble comment, but the annuals of the
lumber industry in Washington con
tains many more remarkable inci
dents.
When President Taft was in the
Panama Canal zone recently his atten
tion was called to several spud sticks
in the big dredges, and he asked where
it was possible to obtain such tim
bers. These sticks, each 36 by 40 inch
es and more than 90 feet in length,
the superintendent told him, were
shipped from Bellingham last sum-
I mer.
The recent challenge of Portland
for the distinction of producing the
biggest timbers sawed in the world
has been answered from many parts
W. A. MOORE,
Past Master Lodge 302, B. of R.
T., and Yard Conductor South
ern Railway.
of Washington. Portland mills sawed
two sticks 36 inches square and 60
feet in length. Bellingham came back
with a sawed spud stick for a dredge
40 inches square and 92 feet in length,
and boasted having furnished timbers
125 feet in length.
There is a cedar tree in Snohomish
county which is declared to be the
largest tree on the continent, exceed
ing in girth by 3 inches the largest
of the trees of the famous redwood
forest in California. This tree meas
ures 104 feet 4 inches in circumfer
ence, and it is more than 150 feet to
the first limb, which is 5 feet in diame
ter.
On the west slope of the Cascade
mountains a giant red fir was recent
ly blown across the tracks of the
Northern Pacific railroad. Traffic was
blocked by the monster log, which
measured 8 feet in thickness.
There was no saw within miles that
was big enough to cut the timber,
and as the railroad company could
not wait the five days required to saw
the section from the huge log, dyna
mite was placed deeply in the bored
holes and the aged tree blown to
splinters. It was easier to repair ten
rods of roadbed than to saw through
8 feet of solid red fir.
In Clallam county, according to offi
cial measurements, the timbered area
runs 20,000,000 feet to the square mile.
The stand on smaller areas is even
more dense. One acre recently show
ed 500,000 feet of standing timber.
A 40-acre tract in Clallam county
contains 9,900,000 feet of timber. There
are 8,500,000 feet of. fir, 390,000 feet
of spruce and 180,000 of hemlock. The
quarter section of which the tract is
a part, contains 19,000,000 feet of fir,
2,700,000 of spruce and 700,000 of hem
lock.
A Pacific county mill cut 500,000
feet from a little less than two acres.
The logs averaged from 12,000 to 14,-
000 feet each.
The prize winner, according to Spo
kane millmen, should be a log sent
; from Puget Sound to San Francisco.
This was so big that no mill could
| saw it, the trimming having to be
| done by hand with axes. The log
j measured 34 inches by 54 inches, and
' was 104 feet long when hewn into
j shape. The largest log ever cut in
| any mill in Washington was 72 inches
j in diameter at the smaller end.
The remarkable feat of erecting a
j fourteen-room house from the lum-
| ber of a single yellow fir was recent
ly accomplished at Elma. There was
| nearly 38,000 feet of lumber in the
logs of the tree. Six logs, 28 feet in
length, the largest 7 feet in diameter
at the smallest end, were made from
the fir. The measurement of the
stump inside the bark was exactly
nine feet. The trunk was straight,
and for 100 feet not a limb appeared.
The total length of the tree was more
than 300 feet. The lumber was worth
nearly $1,000. The corporation own
ing the land growing this tree has hun
dreds of such firs, many of them too
big to be handled by the equipment
now possessed by Washington saw
mills.
Not far from Snoqualmie falls a
giant tree was blown across a pre
cipitous canyon a year ago. The
trunk forms a foot bridge 10 feet wide.
The log has been leveled and teams
are often driven across it by venture
some drivers.
A mammoth cedar tree was blown
down near South Bend a few weeks
ago. It measured 65 feet 8 inches
around, three feet above the bulge of
the root. The cedar was 11 feet in
diameter 75 feet above the earth.
There is a cedar tree 18 feet in
R. E. WILLIAMS,
Insurance Secretary Division 368,
B. L. E., and Popular Passen
ger Engineer Southern Ry.
diameter at Souih Bend. At Monte-
sano is another cedar 19 feet 5 inches
in diameter. On the John’s river there
are groves of cedars that vary from
10 feet to 24 feet through, and only a
few are hollow.
There are also large trees in Ya
kima, Okanogan, Ferry, Asotin, Spo
kane, Stevens, Whitman and other
eastern counties. The largest stand
W. A. WOODDALL,
Chief Conductor Ga. Div. 457, O.
R. C.; Prominent Member the
Masons and the Shrine.
of white pine left Intact on this con
tinent is partly in Whitman county,
and extends into northern Idaho. The
largest fir trees on the east side are
in the Sullivan lake district in Stev
ens county.