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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Juni- 10. 1019 



FOR SALE TO HIGHEST BIDDERS 



4,000,000 ft. (B. M.) OREGON PINE 



THICKNESSES— 2 in., 2% in., 2J^ in., 3 in., 4 in., 5 in. and 6 in. WIDTHS— 5 in. to 12 in. LENGTHS— 10 ft. to 34 ft. 



3,000,000 ft. (B.M.) VANCOUVER SPRUCE 



THICKNESSES— 2 in., 2% in., 2J/^ in., 3 in., 4 in., S in. and 6 in. WIDTHS— 5 in. to 12 in. LENGTHS— 8 ft. to 34 ft. 

 EVERY PIECE OF PINE AND SPRUCE IS DRY, FREE OF DEFECTS, AND STRAIGHT GRAINED. 



2,700,000 Sq. Ft.) BIRCH PLYWOOD VENEER 



THICKNESSES— 1-8 in., 5-32 in., 13-64 in., 15-64 in., 5-16 in. and 25-64 in. WIDTHS AND LENGTHS— 36x48 in. and 

 48x60 in. 



EVERY PIECE OF PLYWOOD IS DRY, FREE OF DEFECTS, PLANED AND WATERPROOF. 



EVERY THICKNESS, WIDTH AND LENGTH IS SEPARATELY CRATED AND STRAPPED. 



FIVE CARLOADS OR MORE OF SPRUCE OR PINE WILL BE SOLD WHERE STORED. 



ONE CARLOAD OR MORE OF PLYWOOD WILL BE SOLD WHERE STORED. 



ALL THIS MATERIAL HAS PASSED RIGID INSPECTION BY U. S. GOVERNMENT OFFICERS. 



SPRUCE AND PINE ARE IN STORE AT PORT ARTH UR AND HOUSTON, TEXAS. PLYWOOD IS IN STORE 

 AT NEW YORK AND BALTIMORE. 



Terms: Certified Check or Sight Draft with B/L when loaded. Buyers shall pay loading charges. 



Address all communications to 



ITALIAN MILITARY MISSION 



Holland House, 5th Ave. & 30th St. 



Telephone Madison Square 2993 



New York City, N. Y. 



Cable Address Italyarm 



except in those cases where the plant has already been paid for and is 

 owned by the potash maker who makes no charge for his own labors but 

 accept.s his profit as compensation for his work. Under these conditions 

 the cost of manufacture of potash, exclusive of the cost of ashes, may be 

 reduced to about 5 cents a pound. 



Summarizing the Damage 



M. U. Vandcrlip. one of the larjii- liankiMs iii .New York, has returned 

 from four month.s spent in England. France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy. 

 Spain and Holland, and his conclusions are that the property damage 

 and life loss due to the war have been less serious than the confusion 

 and disintegration of society. He says : 



( The expenditures upon the war, the destruction of property, the loss 

 and wa.ste of production, the inheritance of debt — these of themselves 

 would make up a terrible total to be faced, but if pre-war conditions were 

 otherwise unchanged, and every worker renuiining was able and willing 

 to step back into the place he occupied before the war. and resume his 

 duties as before, the situation would be comparatively simple and easy. 

 Six months after the signing of the armistice industrial reorganization 

 scarcely has begun. The armies are partially demobilized, but great num- 

 bers of people are receiving unemployment doles. The expenditures of 

 the governments are on a great scale and except in England are being 

 met largely by issues of paper money. The currencies are depreciated 

 and in some countries in a state of hopeless confusion. The transporta- 

 tion service is broken down, the old channels of trade are obliterated, 

 industrial organizations are .scattered, raw matHi-ials are not at hand, 

 credit is in a state of suspension. Finally, the whole social bod.v is in a 

 state of unrest and disorder, unwilling to go back to old conditions and 

 unable to provide a new system {\t imiustry to take the place of the old. 

 The result is that prcxluction, which under any .system of society is 

 necessary to life and order, is largely suspended, and the situation from 

 week to week grows more serious. 



Large Crop of Wild Cherries 



A black cherry tree, of American origin, is growing in Langley Park, near 

 Slough, England, that holds the record as a producer of fruit. It yields a 

 ton a year, and a ladder seventy feet long is needed when the picking 

 Is done. The wild cherries sell for about six cents a pint in that market. 

 This is the tree from which cherry lumber is cut In America. Though a 

 wild species, it produces fruit abundantly when the soil is good and the 

 situation is suiHciently open to admit sunshine. The cherries are seldom 

 half as large as tame cherries, but they are filled to the limit with juice, 

 which is often converted into a kind of wine or cider called "bounce." It 

 is rather too bitter to please the palate of most people, but the taste for 

 It is easily acquired. It has a richness which compares favorably with 

 the best grape juice. The fruit is too soft to ship well and is seldom sent 

 to market. 



Egypt Is Waking Up 



Forestry In Egypt Is one of the last things to be expected. Practically 

 no timber grew there during historic times. Wood for the most common 

 uses as well as the most exacting was Imported from East Africa and 

 Syria thousands of years ago. A change Is now taking place. When the 

 war cut off timber imports. It was found that some supplies were pro- 

 curable from planted trees in gardens and along highways. The people 

 were surprised to find that they had so much. It set them to thinking, and 

 thinking resulted in planting trees for growing timber. Millions of seed- 

 lings of quickly-growing species have been planted along the banks of the 

 Nile and in the Irrigated districts during the past four years. It Is strange 

 that the ancient Egyptians with all their progressiveness never thought 

 of planting timber trees. 



Great Road Building Era 



Lumbermen who are in a position to sell timber and lumber suitable 

 for bridges, culverts, and railing should not lose sight of the fact that 

 probably the greatest road building period In the history of the world is 

 that now reached by the United States. 



Figures indicating the program of the current year have been issued by 

 the Bureau of Public Roads of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 These figures indicate that federal funds available March 1 for road 

 building totaled more than .1:72,900,000. 



On July 1 an additional $95,000,000 will be available from the same 

 source for general road purposes and $4,000,000 for national forest roads. 

 Allowing for an equal sum from the states, as provided under the law, 

 this will furnish the huge total of $343,800,000 for road construction this 

 year. 



In addition to the work which receives federal aid It is estimated that 

 approximately $280,000,000 will be expended locally. 



A Pretty Long Job 



Some generous forestry associations in Norway have announced their 

 purpose of replanting with Scandinavian trees the areas in northern France 

 where the forests were destroyed during the war. The proposal calls for 

 the planting of 250 acres a year without any expense to France. The 

 spirit Is commendable, but the job promises to be a pretty long one. The 

 deforested area covers 1,500,000 acres, and If 250 acres a year shall be 

 planted, the job will take 6,000 years. That Is one of the most far-reach- 

 ing planting programs on record. 



