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"Holy Old Mackinaw"

I'he Macmillan Company, 350 Mission Street, San cisco, announced I\{arch 22 as the publication date of Old Mackinaw," A Natural History of the American berjack, by Stewart H. Holbrook.

PRospect 618r gan contributing to national magazines. Since 1934 he has been a free lance writer, and this is his first book. He served Fran- in a New England field artillery regiment during the World "Holy War, seeing action in the Meuse-Argonne. He makes his Lum- horne in Portland, Oregon.

The American Lumberjack at work and at play, from Maine to Oregon-here is his rough and lusty story.

Mr. Holbrook tells of Bangor, the first of the great lumbering towns, of the time when a single block of two million acres of virgin Maine timber was sold to one man for twelve and a half cents an acre, of the beginnings of sawdust, and the rivalry between Penobscot and Kennebec.

He tells of the first migration, when white pine became scarce in Maine, and loggers moved to Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin; of the whoopee-towns of the Lakes. Then came the big jump-the second migration-to the forests of the Pacific Northwest and Coast, and the era of bull-whacking and skid-roads. And finally, the coming of machine logging and highrvays, and the disintegration of the old logger strain.

In this book afe recaptured the life and color of a vanishecl American scene. The author has worked in the logging camps both on the Atlantic and Pacific coast and has bunked with many veterans of the woods, men who knet' logging and lumber towns in their great and red-eyed heyday.

When working in the Douglas fir camps of the Northwest, Mr. Holbrook wrote for the British Columbia Lumberman. In 1923 he went to work for another lumber journal, later being its editor for nine years. In the meantime he be-

The Tax Burden on Lumber

A lumber expert intended writing an article for lumber association purposes. His conclusions show what tax men and tax editors have to contend within this year 1938.

"After going carefully into your exhaustive service and after checking other available sources, I have come to the conclusion that I had better notwrite the article attempting to list and define the various taxes and estimate the aggregate tax burden on lumber in its march from the woods to the conSumer. It is entirely too big and too responsible a job and I doubt if the best tax expert in the country could do it accurately. It is possible to check all taxes paid by lumber manufacturers, but what is tacked on in the way of taxes after the lumber leaves their hands is a problem of terrifying magnitude. I won't be the one to make this estimate, and I am so informing the magazine who requested such an article. Maybe, some day, a magician will work it out, and if so I for one will take his word for it without further ado. Thank you again for your courtesy. Your various services are indispensable and have been of unusual value to gs."-Q91n6erce Clearing House, Inc.