COMMERCIAL USES OF LONGLEAF PINE 



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LONGLEAF PINE USED LARGELY FOR WOOD BLOCK PAVEMENT 



While several coniferous woods are used for wood block pavements, fully eighty-five per cent of the total amount of raw m;iterial used for this 

 purpose is yellow pine, principally longleaf. More and more cities a"e adopting wood block pavement or extending that already in use and 

 it is expected the consumption of longleaf pine for this puriiose will steadily increase. 



ment of the na\al stores industry was undertaken by 

 the settlers of North CaroHna, and the descendants of 

 the original Tarheel turpentine men are found in every 

 turpentine-producing state. The lumberman, on the tnher 

 hand, particularly along the Gulf, are often Northern 

 men. Many of them are from the white pine regions of 

 the Lake States. The longer visioned of the white 

 pine men, foreseeing the exhaustion of 

 that wood, cast about for other timber 

 supplies. Some went west; others lo- 

 cated in the Southern pine region. Many 

 of the latter bought up Government 

 land in Louisiana and Mississippi at 

 $1.25 per acre, the timber on which is 

 by now worth from $^.00 to $4.00 per 

 thousand feet. 



To enumerate all the uses tn wliicli 

 longleaf can be put is almost to catalo.u 

 the uses of wood itself. Heavy con- 

 struction, shipbuilding, housebuilding, 

 interior finish, machinery, railroad ties. 

 freight cars, paving blocks, box boards, 

 shingles, wood pulp ; and we ha\c 

 named but a partial list. 



WEIGHT FOR WEIGHT STRONGER THAN 

 STEEL 



which can be obtained in large dimensions and amounts, 

 for the strength of wood is roughly proportional to its 

 dry weight and longleaf is almost as heavy as oak, being 

 tliC heaviest of the important conifers. Weight for 

 weight, it is stronger than steel. Individual pieces of long- 

 leaf, as of any wood, vary in weight, hence in strength. 

 The weight is roughly proportional to the density, which 



Longleaf may not be the strongest of 

 woods, but it is one of the strongest 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PACKAGES 



These are made of one-eighth inch rotary cut of longleaf pine veneer, the longleaf being an 

 important wood in this industry and grouped with the other southern yellow pine stands 

 third in the list of woods used for this purpose. 



