Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fund of $150,000 for the endowment of a chair of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering has been presented to the Yale Forestry School by the National Lumber Dealers' Association. The course will furnish instruction in log scaling and timber estimating and in practical work of bridge and dam construction...
...calculations for the work are as follows: earth excavation, 340,000 cubic yards; masonry, 43,825 cubic yards; filling, 390,000 cubic yards; piling, 470,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 235,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riff raff, 9, 700 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies...
...third-year men have been in lumber camps in the Adirondacks, in Grafton Country, New Hampshire, and in the Moosehead Lake region, Maine. The fourth-year men, accompanied by Professor A. Cary, have made a tour on foot starting from the Rangeley Lake region, Maine, and proceeding to Lake Megantic, just over the Canadian border, a distance of about 100 miles, and from there by rail to the lumbering region on the west side of Moosehead Lake. They are expected to return during the mid-year period...
Leatherbee, R. W., lumber merchant...
Webber, C. J., lumber business...