Due to their clear, straight-grained structure, the young yellow pine, commonly called the "bull pine" due to its pitchy, knotty, short-grained structure, is unsuitable for lumber and is used chiefly for fuel. The yellow pine grows to a great size and can exist in rocky, sterile regions. Bull pine weighs 29 pounds per cubic foot and seasons more quickly than most woods as it contains only about 35 percent water when freshly cut. The relatively cheap price of bull pine due to the abundant local supply is the best recommendation it has. The cedar and fir trees are almost all used for lumber, telegraph and telephone poles, railroad ties, etc. Tamarack is the heaviest of the soft woods that grows in Idaho; one cubic foot weighs 46 pounds.

In places where tamarack grows abundantly it is the best wood for heating purposes. It has a high heating value, is straighter grained than bull pine and splits more easily. Tamarack is being used extensively in heavy construction work. In the milling regions most of the tamarack goes to the sawmill. Tamarack is a valuable tree for a small wood lot with the exception that it is slow to mature. —Louis Cady.

START MOVEMENT FOR LOCAL DRAMA LEAGUE.
First of Senes of Plays When Given Tonight in Guild Hall to Start Plan
The presentation of "The Mollusc," a play by H.H. Davies at Guild Hall tonight, marks the opening of a movement which aims toward affirming. 