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CHICAGO
PERFECT PUNCHINQS
May 12, 1923
FUTURE LUMBER SUPPLY
Senate Committee on Reforestation Visit Sev-
eral Points in West to Study Different
Phases of Forest Problem.
The committee on reforestation, appointed by the
Senate at the last session of Congress, assembled in
Detroit this week to begin a tour of the great lakes
states in its nation-wide search for a solution of the
problem of the rapidly disappearing woods. The in-
formation it receives from the lumbermen who will
appear before it during the next few days in Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota will form the basis in
part of the program of legislation which it will recom-
mend to Congress when it reconvenes in December.
They have held hearings in Washington and re-
cently returned from a trip through the forests of the
southern states. Later they will visit the big timber
lands of the far west, and also those of New England
to learn the views of all parts of the country in the
preparation of their report to the Senate in Decem-
ber. The hearings began this week at Bay City,
Mich., where many old lumbermen will give the com-
mittee their idea of what should be done to save the
vanishing forests.
The particular phases of the forest problem which
the committee is investigating are fire protection;
taxation to encourage conservation; economies in cut-
ting and use of lumber; government ownership of
timber lands; and promotion of substitutes for wood.
It is practically sure that the committee, on the
basis of the testimony already taken, will recommend
a large increase in the appropriation for fire protec-
tion. The forest problem has been conspicuous dur-
ing the last ten years, but it is more acute today than
ever before. The warnings issued by Gifford Pinchot
have come true in large part, and unless the Senate
committee can work out an effective solution, the na-
tion will soon face a lumber famine.
In the lake states the present forest area is 57,000,-
000 acres, or 12 per cent of their land area. About
10,000,000 acres contain virgin saw timber, 10,000,000
to 14,000,000 acres are in second growth, between
12,000,000 and 13,000,000 acres yield cordwood, and
about 21,000,000 acres have been so completely
stripped by fires or other causes that they are not
restocking.
The present stand of saw timber in the lake states
is about 50,000,000 cubic feet, or scarcely enough to
supply the United States for two years. The original
timber area in the lake states was 104,000,000 acres,
as against about 67,000,000 at present.
The lake states were renowned for their mag-
nificent white pine, being for more than two cen-
turies the leading lumber tree of America. The orig-
inal stand of white pine in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and
Michigan was estimated at 350,000,000,000 feet. Only
about 8,000,000,000 feet of both white and Norway
pine remains now, largely in Minnesota. The cut is
1,000,000,000 feet a year, and the total lumber cut in
these states is 3,500,000,000 feet, against an estimated
annual growth of less than 1,000,000,000 feet.
Including all forest products, in terms of lumber
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Ivory Cutters and Manufacturers
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board feet, the annual cut is about 5,160,000,000 feet,
as compared with an annual growth of about 1,490,-
000,000 feet. At this rate, the lake states will not be
lumber states in any large commercial sense after,
say, ten years.
SFTUATION IN SUPPLIES
Facts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
The wool market remains firm in Oregon and all
through the West. No possibility of a further de-
cline in prices is seen.
The lumber firm of Smith, Fassett & Co., Buffalo,
N. Y., which specializes in certain requirements of
piano manufacturers, has been incorporated. It is
one of the oldest firms in the lumber trade.
Increases in prices have followed strong demands
for lumber of all kinds, according to reports of lum-
ber trade associations.
Spring floods in Kentucky and car shortage else-
where have resulted in a scarcity of walnut veneer
logs in western veneer mills.
RADIO AERIAL IMMUNE.
That a radio aerial was an appurtenance to the
home of the owner and therefore inviolable in so far
as the landlord was concerned, was the ruling in a
Chicago court this week, when a dispute between
Fred B. Snell, 2836 Taylor street, and John Vekias,
2838 Taylor street, was heard. According to the tes-
timony, the landlord, Vekias, called upon Snell for
the rent of his apartment. Snell told him he would
have to wait until next day, and Vekias, becoming
enraged, got an ax and chopped down Snell's aerial
on the roof of the building.
PHONOGRAPHS AT PARIS SHOW.
Talking machine manufacturers are well repre-
sented in the Premier Salon de la Musique, opened
this week in Paris. It is an exposition confined solely
to machines of French manufacture. The following
French talking machines manufacturers are repre-
sented in the salon: Carpentier, the Chanoit Co.,
Mercure & Vulcan, Pathe Freres, Perfectaphone,
Ancel, Aerophone, Canthaphone, Gramophone, Henry
Leclerc and Tricolore.
Established 1867
Strauch Bros.
All Well-posted Piano Dealers, Sales-
men, and the Piano Buying Public
recognize the value of this name on a
Piano Action,
For more than 55 years it has been associ-
ated with the best products of the Piano
industry. It has always represented
Quality and Merit
When a Piano Action bears the name of
Strauch Bros, it is an additional guarantee
of the quality of the instrument containing it.
STRAUCH BROS.,Inc.
Piano Actions, Hammers and Repairs
327 to 347 Walnut Ave., a t 141st Street
NEW YORK
WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS
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