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14 THE ATLANTIAN HOW TO ACCUMULATE $1,000.00 Profit Sharing Trust Bonds Sold on Monthly, Quarterly, Semi- Annual or Annual Payment Plan. Ten Year 5% Coupon Trust Bonds $500.00, $1,000.00, $2,500.00, $5,000.00 Interest Coupons Payable Semi-Annually. Write for our new bookletr-it is free. Guarantee Trust & Banking Co. Atlanta, Ga. Bond Department Established 1899. Capital - - $500,000.00 Representatives Wanted. 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.