INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, AUGUST 14, 1919 sax PAGE the "SootS"" "will come, 'waterpowe. chewingo'oaeco and cus&Tug the u-rll will fail and all industry will suffer. DANGER OF WOOD times, they were in fact making a Therefore, there must be a lot pretty good thing—especially if they of tree planting in this country, else happened to own the land the logs pretty much everything will go by the FAMINE IS SEEN Tractor Troubles! were cut from. board. Then, last of all, the coasters who Advance in Pulp Wood Values. carried the lumber to Boston, the The advance in pulp wood vrlues Sound and New York got $1.75, $2.25 within 30 months has been remarkable, and=$2.50 per thousand feet for delivery even for the times. Before the Trees in Forests Must Be Replaced at those several destinations— entrance of this country into the war, that is, the rates quoted prevailed peeled wood delivered in the mill yard or Great Scarcity LUBRICATINGthe during fairly good times. In dull in Maine was worth $9 a cord. Will Result. times' lumber was carried from Bangor Now the price is $18 in Maine and in oil is inexpensive the cost of a to Boston as -cheaply as $1.25 to New York state a cord. This advance $20 burned-out bearing will pay for the lubricants necessary $1.50 per thousand, to Long Island is du3 in part to higher wages sound ports at $1.75 to $2, and to New SAW MILLS SMALL FACTOR and in part to a little profiteering or a to keep machine in order for months, York at $2 to $2.25. turn of thrift by the land owners. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) manufactures Now everything is changed. Of Wages before the war, that is, up to Maine's normal log cut of 1,000,000,000 the spring of 1917, were $30 to $35 a three lubricating oils for tractors— feet, at least 60 per cent goes into Pulp Mills Eat Up Many Millions of month and board. In 1918 and 1919 the pulp and paper. The native logger, rate jumped to $60 to $65 a month, and Spruce Every Year Scientific Heavy Polarine Oil who swung a sharp ax skillfully in some instances as high as $75 or Forestry Has Not Caught Up at $18 to $20 a month and was content $85 has been paid. Just now, because to Tree Slaughter. to live on baked beans and Maine is pretty well stocked, the demand salted fish, has been succeeded by a for labor and the price show a Bangor, Me.—When the world gets polyglot mob that uses saws languidly Stanolind Tractor Oil declining tendency. But in the United through with its arguments about war, at $50 to $60 a month, demands States as a whole the supply of wood peace, the (or a) League of Nations hotel fare, frequent payments, is short of the demand, and there and all that is expressed in the polite treatment and every few weeks seems to be no prospect of lower short and ugly word "rum," it should a vacation. The logs for the most prices either of labor or product. Extra Heavy Polarine Oil turn its most serious and intelligent part, are cut into four-foot lengths, One operator in Maine, a Massachusetts attention to tree farming. Positively, and they go to the big pulp and paper man, who got into the lumber must be many more trees, or a there mills owned by corporations that long business through his love of nature, constant and liberal replenishment of ago bought up hundreds of thousands cut last year on Molunceus and existing supply, or presently we the of acres of the best timber in Maine. the east branch of the Penobscot shall suffer great inconvenience from Logging used to begin in November 30,000 cords, or 15,000.000 feet, of pulp the of many useful and some scarcity One of these three is the correct Write for ''Tractor Lubrication," and end in March. Now it goes on at wood and 5,000,000 feet of long logs, ornamental things. all seasons. and will cut this year 40,000 cords, or oil for your tractor. which you will find a In the simple and innocent old times Saw Mills Small Factor. 20,000,000 feet of pulp wood, employing valuable reference book of 100 a tree was just so much standing lumber, The saw mill is a small factor in 600 men at $62 a month and Our Engineering Staff has prepared and lumber was cheap. Within pages and we believe it will save the great game of turning Maine forests board or for piece work, $3.50 to $3.75 a chart showing which one the memory of men of middle age into money. The long logger, a cord. you many days of tractor idleness first-class spruce logs sold in Bangor will give the best results in your that is, he who cuts for sawmills, The common impression is that all with the resultant money loss. at $11 to $14 per thousand feet. The wood pulp is made into paper and is almost extinct. The big sawmill particular tractor. The nearest men who cut the logs were paid $18 drives are seen tie more. This is the that the increased demand for newsprint Standard Oil representative will to $20 a month and board, the board It's free to you for the asking. day of the "four-foot stuff' which alone is responsible for tha denudation consisting chiefly of a bunk to sleep be glad to show it to you. Address makes up most of the drives and gives of our forest lands. It is a in and "beans twenty-one times business to the railroads. The pulp true that most of the pulp goes to week." The men who "drove" the eat up so many millions of feet mills satisfy the appetite of the printing STANDARD OIL COMPANY same logs, that is, personally cooducted spruce that speculative and statistical presses, but there have been developed of them down the roaring brooks persons wonder where it all in recent years many and various and raging rivers, received for their comes from and how long the supply 910 S. Michigan Ave. (Indiana) other uses for the fiber of the CHICAGO, ILLINOIS labors afcd hair-raising risks, $2.25 to last. So far as Maine is concerned spruce and poplar. Innumerable will $3 a day, according to their athletic there need be no fear of a wood articles are now made of wood pulp 1781 skill and their fame as "white water famine very soon, but at the present —doors, dishes, buttons, boards, boxes, men," and of course all hands were rate cutting there is bound to pie plates by the million, trunks and of fed, although the menu was characterized be a scarcity the United States within car wheels, and milady who parades If in big, rich ana THus pro^pUxw by monotonous simplicity and a few years that will send prices the avenue, proud of her gown of SX THOMPSON & SON States. They read of food the service subject to many irregularities profiteering, kiting. tricolette, may be surprised to learn of rent profiteering, of railroad deficits, and postponements. These The present annual consumption of that in that silken fabric is woven rub their eyes and exclaim: "Is same logs were sawed in mills that pulp wood east of the Mississippi the fiber of the spruce—that she owes ornamented the banks of the Penobscot it possible that even America, that river is about 7,000,000 cords, or 3,500,000,000 something of the luster and durable or chiefly for fifty miles more, gold-mine amongst countries, has feet. That is using wood at a texture of her finery to the fragrant and a distance between Milford Bangor, these worries, just as we have?" Even forests of Maine. fifteen The mill reckless rate, even with a big supply of about miles. the Italian public school teachers' to work very early in the in sight. But there is a greater drain hands went strike which has driven millions of and kept at it until long after upon our wood resources. Fire takes ITALY HARD HIT morning mothers to distraction, seems to have else had quit for the more than the mills. The eastern everyone a faint reflection on the other side. to the extent of slope of the Rockies is 75 per cent day, being rewarded But one problem here has no counterpart We defy Sears & Roebuck or Savage & a all the corned burnt land, and tho timber map is about $30 month and BY COAL FAMINE in America. It is the coal fam beef, etc., they eat in splotched with great Tjlack patches all cabbage, could ine. This is the worst trouble thi to three or the way from Puget sound to the twenty thirty minutes, country has to face. Everything else Company four a day, season. Penobscot. In some parts of Maine times according to pales before it, for the lack of coal is the burnt area greatly exceeds the paralyzing industry, closing factories Profit to Manufacturer. green. In the South the pine and the and casting thousands of men and women All Other Problems-Pale Before cypress are being cut away at an The sweet-smelling spruce that was out of employment. People who alarming rate, and in the Pacific states Paralysis of Big sliced off by the saws was worth listen' with or without approval, to the Douglas fir and other growths are $14 to $21 per thousand feet, according D'Annunzio's wild diatribes against Industries being turned into money as rapidly We will sell you a bill of goods and make no to quality and dimensions. This Americans and especially against President as possible. would seem to allow of slight profit Wilson, know at the back of their charge for delivery. To make up for all the cutting, little to the manufacturer, but there are minds that only the coal famine really LACK OF FUEL STOPS WORK is being done. Scientific forestry various ways of measuring logs and matters. 5 lbs. of sugar Worth .60 for .25 is making some progress, but as yet lumber—woods scale, boom scale and Coal Scarcity Threatens Ruin. 1 pr. Men's Black Cotton Socks Worth .35 for .18 efforts in that direction are as nothing mill scale—and during the golden era Every thinking man and woman here compared with tree slaughter. Reforestation 3 doz. Can Rubbers Worth .45 for .35 of Bangor's spruce trade the jugglery Nation Will Be Ruined if Aid Long It knows that unless the coal famine is is being carried on in some of figures was such that 1,000 feet of 1 lb. Creamery Butter Worth -65 for .40 Withheld—Price of Coal Is $50 stopped, ruin will soon stare Italy in states, as on a small scale, in Maine, logs, boom scale would "saw out" the face. Her coal supply which must 3 Packages of Soda Worth .45 for .30 a Ton When It Is to Be but a tree doesn't grow in a day. A anywhere from 1,150 to 1,400 feet of be entirely imported, is never enough big spruce may be felled in five minutes, Had at All. 2 Quarts Indian Head Grape Juice Worth .80 for .50 lumber, 1,200 feet being a fair average. to last for more than a few weeks. but its reproduction will require So, even in the gloomiest days, y2 lb. Early Flower Japan Tea Worth .40 for .30 Italy pays $30 a ton for coal that 40 years. Rome.—Italians are struck by the when heavy spruce dimensions were 4 Bottles of Bluing costs $15 in France, $10 in England Worth .60 for .40 It is not altogether a question of similarity of problems which face citizens selling at $21 to $23 and the Bangor and $8 in Germany. The Italian government wood supply, either. As the forests go of this small country and of the 10 lb. Navy Beans mill men would sit in their offices Worth 1.25 for .90 has tried to get big coal contracts 1 lb. Paraffin Wax Worth .20 for -15 with American mine owners. 2 Bottles Ammonia American coal, at the pit's mouth is Worth .30 for .25 cheaper than any other. But Italy cannot 2 Cans Red Seal Lye Worth .30 for .20 get the transports except at such 3 Cans Ready Made Soup Worth .45 for .25 rates that make American coal a prohibitive 2 lbs. Best Rice luxury. Italy had no coal Worth -30 for .25 mines destroyed during the war, because 4 Boxes Matches Worth .25 for .20 she had none to be destroyed, Italy has suffered from coal shortage TOTAL worse than any other country, and still $6.75 S4.88 suffers. Lack of Coal Basis of Problems. The question is like a magic circle, you go round and round all the problems which are causing strikes S. E. THOMPSON & SON throughout the country—dear living, lack of raw materials, transports, dear foreign money, and you always PHONE 128 get back to coal. Without coal there are no industries, without industries there are no exports, without exports there is no money. And so it goes on. Discontent with econorifec conditions is general, yet Italy has no coal at home and no transports to go and fetch it from America, where sli? could get it cheaper than a^y .vher •2lse. Subscribe for The Press ftiEW EYhLlJS rrfGtv! LEG LUCKY vnz-jjL Operation Restores Sight of Maine Man Injured Forty-Seven STRIKE Years Ago. cigarette Bangor, Me.—Forty-seven years without dosing his eyes, then a period of total blindness, followed by complete restoration of sight, this is the COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS experience of John Randolph Watson It's toasted to increase of the town of Standish. Mr. Watson was a photographer in SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA the good, Indianola, and in 1856 an explosion of chemicals burned away his eyelids, although wholesome flavor the sight was not affected. Bat Under the Direction and Control of the Most Reverend with unprotected eyes he continued of the Kentucky fer nearly half a century, three years Austin Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul of the period being spent in Alaska, Burley tobacco. where the severity of the climate A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE caused cataracts to form on both eyes A regular man's and results in loss of sight. He went to Philadelphia later, where smoke and delicious! Collegiate, High School, and Commercial Courses he formerly lived for a time, and was at the Hahnemann hospital, and by grafting flesh from his leg he got a new set of eyelids. The success of the Over One Thousand Students from Twenty-eight operation is now assured. The cataracts States Registered Last Year &&r. were removed and the sight has h~ THE REGISTRAR been restored.' 7" For Catalogue Address *i7' M-