. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. i6 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN July, 1896, 4 ELEPHANTS IN A LUMBER PILE. William B. Tourgee has just returned from a trip round the world, says the Buffalo Courier. One of the places which offered some of the most interesting scenes was found in the large lumber yards of Burmah. The teak wood indus- try is the great industry of that country. The wood grows for the greater part in the northern part of Burmah, where it is cut and floated down the Irrawaddy to Rangoon, whe
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. i6 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN July, 1896, 4 ELEPHANTS IN A LUMBER PILE. William B. Tourgee has just returned from a trip round the world, says the Buffalo Courier. One of the places which offered some of the most interesting scenes was found in the large lumber yards of Burmah. The teak wood indus- try is the great industry of that country. The wood grows for the greater part in the northern part of Burmah, where it is cut and floated down the Irrawaddy to Rangoon, where the more im- portant and larger yards are located. It is in these lumber yards that they employ the elephants in moving and handling the logs. The elephant has practically the entire handling of the logs from the moment they are ready to be taken from the back water, where they have been stored until the logs have been con- verted into the thin planks used in shipbuilding and other industries, where it answers the pur- pose better than any other known wood. A dozen or more elephants may be employed in the same yard. They are nearly all males, which are, generally speaking, larger and stronger than the females. These intelligent creatures will balance a log on their tusks, and, holding it firmly with their trunks, will proceed to walk off with it to the saw. They will then hold the log up to the saw while it is at work, and will see that it is cut properly, either cross- wise or lengthwise, as may be desired. They pull the slabs away with the ends of their trunks, and pile them in piles that are as neatly arranged as the most exacting yardmaster could desire. The principal work of the elephants consists of taking the logs from the water and piling them up in the yards. They will pile logs in the neat- est manner imaginable, and will adjust them at either end until they are perfectly satisfied that they are rightly arranged. Mr. Tourgee says that the yarcTowners look upon a go
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