Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — SOME BIG TIMBERS. [ARTICLE]

SOME BIG TIMBERS.

Same of lhe largest pieces of timber ever seen in Renee laer are now being banled out to St. Joseph’s College. They are from a oar load of yellow southern pine, ordered for the new college gymnasium, through Donnelly Brothers. Some of the timbers are 12 by 14 inches in size and 42 feet long. They weigh 2,300 pounds each, have 588 feet of lumber in them, and each stick !• worth $17.61. The freight bill on tbe car-load was $133,33.