The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 December 1920 — Page 7

FORESTS VANISH IN LAKE STATES GLOOMY REPORT MADE TO THE SENATE ON WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA. LUMBER PRODUCTION FALLS White Pine Nearly All Gone and the Quality Also Declines—Hemlock and Hardwood Timber Are Now Being Cut Rapidly. By JAMES P. HORNADAY. Washington.—Out of a total original forest area of approximately 112,000,000 acres, the lake states now have little, if any, more than 24,000,000 acres; an original white-pine stand estimated at not less than 350.000.000,000 board feet has been reduced to 8,000,000,000 board feet;, the stand of timber suitable for lumber is being cut more than three timeS as rapidly as it is grown; in another decade the per capita consumption of lumber in the lake states must either fall from 300 to nearly 200 board feet per year, or nearly one-third Qf the lumber needed for home use must be imported. These are the outstanding facts regarding the lake states contained in a report on timber conditions of the ’ country made to- the United States senate by the forest service. Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, which in 1899 were the three leading states in point of lumber production,' had in 1918 fallen to eighth, thirteenth rind eleventh places, respectively. Wisconsin now produces less white pine (than the second-growth cut of either Maine or New Hampshire; and Michigan, which from 1870 to 1895 produced more lumber than any other state 1 in the Union, actually cuts less than half as much white pine as Massachusetts. Quantity and Quality Decline. The peak of lumber production In the lake states was passed in 1892, when the reported output was a little more than 5,900.000,000 board feet largely white pine, according to the report. In 1918 the cut had fallen to 3,202,000,000 board feet, of which only 35 per cent was white pine. As the cut dwindled, white pine lumber went down ‘both In quality arid quantity; and Norway and jack pine, and even tamarack, were admitted as jower grades of “northern pine lumber.” The fine old timber which gave white pine its reputation is now nearly all gone. In Minnesota two-thirds or more of the cut is box lumber. Only small scattered remnants of the old-growth white pine forests remain in Wisconsin and upper Michigan, while id lower Michigan the most widely known tract covers about KXI acres. As the higher grades of white pine became scarce, hemlock, which was once considered worthless, begin to compfete with the lower grades of pine that were introduced. Hardwoods also began to be iri demand and their utilization has now progressed to a point where they are cut not only for lumber but for such other purposes as chemical distillation, charcoal, etc. The depletion of commercial timber has proceeded furthest in the lower peninsula of Michigan, where probably not much over half a taillion acres of hardwoods and hemlock remain, the report states. Out of hundreds of large sawmills that once operated in that section, there were in 1919 only about 45 that cut one million board feet apiece. Within „ five years there will hardly be half a dozen large mills left. In Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan the situation Is better. It is estimated that there are about 4,000,000 acres of timberland in upper Michigan and 2,000.000 in Wisconsin, with a total merchantable stand of at least 48.000,000,000 feet. All things considered, it is doubtful if there will be any appreciable amount of timber left in commercial holdings in Wisconsin at-the end of 20 years. In upper Michigan the stand will last considerably longer. Conditions in Minnesota. In Minnesota, timber conditions differ widely from those in Wisconsin and Michigan,, in that 91 per cent of the cut in 1918 was white pine, while in Wisconsin 85 per cent of the cut was hardwoods and hemlock. The Minnesota state forester recently ’estimated that there were 11,450,000,000 board feet of soft woods in the state. Os this amount 41 per cent is white and Norway pine, 17% per cent is jack pine, 24 per cent is spruce, balsam and cedar, arid 17% per cent is tamarack. The tamarack, which has been widely used for hewed ties, has practically been killed by the larch sawfly and must be salvaged soon, if at all. The pine forests of Minnesota, the report points out, have been thoroughly culled of their best material, and the production now runs heavily to box lumber. It is estimated that the lumber cut of the lake states for the next five and ten years from the commercial tracts will be ajiout as follows: Present annual cut...... .3,500,000,000 Estimated cut, 1925 2.400.000,000 Estimated cut, 1930 1,800,000,000 It is poihted out that, as the .cut from the commercial stands decreases, the cut from farm woodlots, cutover areas, etc., may be expected to increase in proportion to the total cut, though not in actual amount. Conferences in Marion. Both Republicans "and Democrats will be consulted by President-eket Its Effect. “No wonder Elsie never puts up hrir hair in papers or patent arrangements. Her husband is such a passionate man.” “What has that to do with It?” “Why, his language when he gets excited is enough to make any one’s hair curt" His Nature. “I want a young man of steady habits to take charge of my horse.” “You mean.a man of stable char-

Harding on his return from Panama as to what the United States shall do about the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations. The conference will take place at the home of the President-elect in Marion and will begin about December 10 and run for a fortnight or more. there has been no public announcement as to the definite arrangement for this series of conferences, the understanding here is that the presidentelect will see two or three men daily until he feels that* he has absorbed- a proper amount of Information. Elihu Root, former senator and former secretary of state, has been Invited to be in Marion December 10 and it is presumed that he will be the first man consulted. The men who are to be consulted with respect to the treaty and the league divide into three groups. First there is the group made up of socalled irreconcllables, Republicans and Democrats, who are opposed to the United States becoming a member of any international league or association. Then there is a second, group made up of' men who would discard the Versailles treaty, including the League of Nations covenant, and attempt to bring the nations into some sort of understanding looking to the prevention of war. Finally there is the group made up of men who believe that the United States should go into the existing league with proper reservations, and once in, seek to bring about such amendments as may seem desirable. Some Who Will Be Consulted. Public men who have thus far not been invited to confer with the Pres-ident-elect on the treaty and tbe_ league are speculating as to the men who will be asked out to Marion. It is taken for granted that the irreconcilable group will be represented by Senators Hiram W. Johnson of California, Frank B. Brandagee of Connecticut and William E. Borah of Idaho, and James A. Reed of Missouri, Detaocrat. It is by no means certain that all four of these irreconcllables will be called into conference, but certainly this will be the group from which Mr. Harding will choose. Senator Johnson will, of course, expect to be called into conference, since he has been the leader of the irreconcilable group. When It comes to looking for advice, from men who would wipe the slate clean and (then attempt to form some sort of an international association, the President-elect, it is believed, will turn to Senators Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, George H. Moses of New Hampshire and Harry S. New of Indiana. In making selections from the third group, Mr. Harding will have a somewhat larger company tb choose from. There will lie Elihu Root, William H. Taft, Jacob Gould Schurman, Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota, and Herbert Hoover, all Republicans, and Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, Democrat. Mr 5 . Taft has already received his Invitation to go to Marion. He will be there a day or two after the visit of Elihu Root. How Does Lodge Stand? It will be noted that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, majority leader in the senate and chairman of the foreign, relations committee, does not appear in either one of these three groups, and yet it is certain that he will be consulted. He is not assigned because persons here who ought to know where he stands, if anybody knows, confess they do not know what position he will take in his conference with the President-elect Most observers here are disposed to classify Senator Lodge with the irreconcllables, though it is true, of course, that at the last session he advocated ratification with reservations and so voted. After the views of the three groups have been submitted, the Presidentelect, so persons who know something about his program lay, will atteinpt to unite the Republicans of the senate on a program. This is conceded by all to be a big task. The first assembly of the League of Nations will have completed Its work before Mr. Harding begins his conferences with the representatives of these groups. It is assumed that the outcome of the assembly meeting will not be without effect on the minds of the men who have been invited to confer with the President-elect and also on the mind of the President-elect himself. For instance, if the meeting of the assembly should indicate rather clearly that the league has come to stay whether the United States enters it or not, that fact would naturally become an Important factor in the conferences. A Cockle Opalized. A perfect cockle, petrified and opalized, was on view recently in Adelaide, South Australia. At first glance it resembles an ordinary cockle, such as may be found on any of the extensive beachespf the commonwealth. A closer ’ investigation, however, discloses the fire and brilliance of the stone shining through the ribbed limestone shell. Sir Douglas Mawson of Adelaide university and South Polar fame, has examined this gem, and thinks the cockle, now converted into such a thing of beauty, was alive millions of years ago, and had its home in the shallow sea by which the interior of the continent was covered in the almost fabulous past ■ ) Her Threat. The spendthrift of a husband begged for another chance. “Be patient, my dear,” he said. “I am like the prodigal son; I shall reform by and by.” “You’d better get at it or I will be like the prodigal, too.” she warned him. “for I will arise and go to my father.” . • . z / - Sounds Like a Sane Driver. “Do you drive carefully?” «m t e p you about that. I never start out for a place that I don’t have plenty of time to get 1 there. And a minute more or less doesn’t make the slightest difference to me.” Rhetorical Mathematics. “Can you verify all the statistics you used in your campaign orations?” “I am not going to try,” replied .Senator Sorghum. “Some of those figures were only figures of sneech,”

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UxjcleWali’s Si (| ca— DOMINANT WOMAN 44*T'HERE’S much truth in the old 1 saying that B bachelor is merely half a man,” observed the professor, “I suppose you aye trying to take a fall out of me because T don’t get married,” said the low-browed man. “It

may be true that a bachelor is only a naif a man, but when he accumulates a wife, he’s usually only a quarter of a man, or i maybe oneeighth. The more I dee of married men. the more thankful I am that I have never toohied up at the altar with an orange ‘wreath on my head.

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“Old Doolittle has brien married a long time, and he’s got so used to being bossed by his wife that he doesn’t know what to do when she isn’t around. If you offered to lend him $5 he’d say he’d have to consult Eftza Jane about it. One time, when his wife J was away, visiting, he ate about a peck of green cucumbers, and the colic shut him up like a folding bed. It was the worst case I ever saw. I heard him yelling |or the police, and when I rushed over these and saw him on the floor, with his across the back of his neck, I phoned for a doctor at once. We put him tb bed, and the agony that man endured was sickening/ And as he rolled around there, expecting to go. off the hooks every minute, he kept saying, •What , will Eliza Jane say when she hears I called in a doctor?’ “After his wife came back, I was over at their house dee plight, and she roasted me to a crisp fol sending for a doctor. She said that if I had the first instincts of a gentleman I’d pay the bill, for I wasn’t authorized to call in a sawbones, and'she didh’t want one in the house. Doolittle sat there and heard his wife roasting me until my whiskers curled and. although he knew the doctor saved his life, he never said a word. 5 “After I left the house, he sneaked out arid overtook me, and tbld me he. was sorry for what .had happened, but\ experience had taught him that'it’s no use to butt in when his wife has the floor. 1 . “Gooseworthy came oyer this morning while I was feeding [the cows, and told me a tale of woe. His wife has about, five hundred female relations, aunts mnd stepsisters arid cousins arid such people, and si e keeps the house full of them all the time. He has to sleep on a sanitary couch in the hall, while his own feather bed is occupied by an, aunt who weighs aboijt 400 pounds. He has a comfortable rocking chair he bought for his own private use, and how he n jver gets a whack at it. His wife's; step-sister, who brought her tortoise-shell cat along, is always using it. -He said he was getting plumb disgusted with such a condition of affairs, blut he didn’t know what to do. ! “I asked him why he didn’t read the authorized version of the riot act to his wife, and tell her to ship all those relics out of the hbuse. He seemed shocked at the suggestion. ‘You don’t know what you're talking about,’ he said. ‘You’ve never been married.’ “The queer thini about it is that Gooseworthy is a great Stickler for rights when he’s awriy from home. He’s as sassy as a bobca!t, and will fight at the drop of the hat [if anybody tries to impose ott him. He. walks with his head back and his chest put in front of him, but as soon as he reaches his own front gate he begins to look so blamed abject that the neighbors] pity him. “Then, there’s ojd Major Sendoff, who distinguished himself on many a crimson battlefield. : He has courage enough for three regiments. But he married the Widow Bunkum a couple of years ago and she makes hita do the family washing, and hang the clothes on the line, and I suppose he does the ironing, too. I bould tell you of a hundred such cases+-” x “I suppose you could,” isigliecl the professor, “but I don’t care for sensational fiction.” s Russia. The Russian empire, prior to the world war, comprised 3.764,586 square miles. Cyclopedists divide this territory, one-sixth of the world, into four parts. Russia in Europe (including Poland and Finlcad), the Caucasus, Siberia, Russian Central Asia. Russia in Europe has an area of 1,911,632 miles. French Presidents. Os the presidents of France, M. Poincare was only the fifth to stay the full term. Thiers, the first, held office for only three years, as did MacMahon. Faure died at the end of his fourth year, and Cgsimipr Perier resigned after one year. His Status. “What do you know about the high * cost of living?” “Nothing. I’m merely existing.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. Oldest Botanical Work. The oldest botanical wor.k to the world is in the palace or temple of Kama Kat, Thebes, in Egypt. It is sculptured on the walls and represents foreign plant! brought to Egypt by the sovereign Thothmes 111. after a campaign in Arabia. It shows the plant, , flpwers, bud and fruit. Elephantine. "Didn’t I see "Mr. Cedfoot dancing with you at the park?” “That’s what he called it”—Boston Evening Transcript.

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NOT OLD BOY’S LUCKY DAY At That, It Must Be Admitted He Got Dut of Tight Situation Rather Neatly. He was the picture of sedate middle age, from the broad-toed shoes to the pincenez suspended by a broad black ribbon. He gazed iong and longingly at the portrait of a maiden in rather skimpy attire which adorned the lobby of a theater. He entered the lobby. »He came out again. He was met by an equally sedate middle-aged woman. “What are you doing to there?” she demanded. “Why, my dear, I thought it was the entrance to the bird store, but hurried out as soon as I discovered my mistake,” was his rather halting reply. As they started away, the man drew something from his pocket and dropped it surreptitiously to the sidewalk. A newsboy quickly picked it up. ‘.‘Gee,” he muttered, “a orchestry seat to the* burlies.” The sedate gentleman and his wife strolled on. Qualified. Robinson—, , hear the boss is going to employ w man bill collectors. Jackett —'Zell, if a woman is’ as good at coll- cting money for t>i!TS from other men &s she is from her husband, the idea is a good one. Going Right Through. Katherine—“ls he making.money as a surgeon?” Kidder —“Yes, he’s rapidly carving his way to fortune.”

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