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The Waste Of Timber

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
January
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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The uow well-known fact is that we are rapidly exhausting, largely by reckless and improvident waste, our supplies of timber in the northern states. The demand for it increases at the rate of 30 per cent, a year, and even those who are interested in high prices and iniinediate sales of what is left of it, admit that in 20 years or sooner building timber will be extrerqely scarce, and that in niany parts of the country, y et suppliedin part f rom their own soi], it will have entirely diaappeared. It is stated on good authority that more than 65,000 establishments, employing 400,000 persons and using material to the value of over $350,000,000 a year, are engaged in the United States in manufacturing articles entirely from wood, in addition to 8,000,000 persons partly employed on wood, or using that material yearly to the value of $6,000,000. Ko country can be or ever has been despoiled of her timber and flourish. - United States Beo ist. gA new shaft to the Anglo-French tunnel is to be sunk at Dover. The Evening News gives the following conoise history of this important project : The flrst tentativo shafts designed to test the possibility of a tumiel under the British channel were sunk on the French side, near Calais, early in the summer of 1875. The project of constructing some means of passage above water was long considered and finally given up as impossible. It was next proposed by two English engineers to accomplish the same result by laying a vast iron tube on the bed of the channel from eide to side. This plan was in turn also abaadaasd, and serioua attêötion was givsn to the propcdtion made by the orünent engineer Sir John Hawkshav.', for a submartne tunnel through the earth undr tha wr.ter bed, Sinee tli at time üll effori to solve the problem have bö9n bassdoa thia lafcier man. The lanrrth of t'-3 tunnel Lrom inouth to mouth, at Cover and Calais, would be 23 miles. The Emperor Francia Josepb is not content quietly to see bis subjecte burned to death. He nas been psirsonally inspocting every part of the Burg theatre in Vienna, and has given ortïfiva for adding to and wideniDg ihe doors of egress, and constructing an addi tionalstaircr.se. iíe aiso dirested the moval of the two ia3t rows oí üeats iu the fourt'a (aliery.

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Ann Arbor Democrat