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by man. A departure, however, from the custom Is promised In a new 

 enterprise In the Society Islands. In the South Taclfic ocean, where 

 30,000 aores of land have been bought In Papenoo valley, of the Island 

 of Tahiti. Various commodities will be planted, among them sandalwood 

 and rosewood trees, for the purpose of supplying these valuable woods. 

 The whole tract of 30,000 acres will be cleared of Its tropical Jungle, and 

 ten miles of railway will be built to make the land accessible. 

 A Fake Fungus 

 The people who have substitutes for sale, which they are anxious to run 

 in ahead of wood wherever thoy can, are becoming remarkable discoverers 

 along certain lines. It is said that recently a contract which called for 

 nearly a million feet of wood was lost by a bidder because of a fake 

 report by a man with a substitute to the eCteet that a new fungus had 

 been discovered attacking timber with such rapidity that decay set In 

 at once and caused quick destruction. It was represented as a discovery so 

 recent that the general public had not yet found it out ; but that results 

 were bound to be very serious. The report had its effect in the way 

 intended, and a substitute went in the place of wood. The success of the 

 false report In that particular has evidently encouraged the promulgation 

 of another ; but this "discovery" is a worm instead of fungus. The 

 creature Is reported to be sn voracious that 11; bores its way to the 

 heart of the tree so quickly that the tree is speedily ruined. The des- 

 tructive worm is described as white — which is the common color of worms 

 that live in wood. It is needless to say that the stories of the fungus 

 and the worm are fakes pure and simple, and are circulated, apparently, 

 for the purpose of injuring the reputation of wood as a building material. 

 There are many kinds of fungus and many kinds of timber worms; but 

 those which are injurious are well known and are no worse now than 

 they ever have been. 



A New Wood Preservative 

 A preservative adopted for the timber used in some Belgian collieries, 

 is called "Axol," and consists of a solution of copper and zinc in am- 

 monia, with the addition of a certain amount of benzol. The wood being 

 placed in a boiler, is first submitted to a vacuum tor twenty minutes. 

 The liquid is then applied, and is forced into the pores of the wood at 

 a pressure of ten atmospheres for twenty minutes. The material so 

 treated is claimed to be unaffected by dampness or heat, while it has 

 no smell and is free from any smearin.g outside surface. 

 Pitprops Scarce in England 

 Judging by the prominence given the subject in English trade journals. 

 It seems that the first serious .shortage of timber supplies In England is 

 felt in the coal mines where props are scarce. Many of those formerly 

 used came from France and Scandinavia, and since the war began, the 

 supply has rapidly declined with no apparent source open in Europe. 



The United States has plenty of mine timber to spare. The props 

 need not be large and are of various lengths. Their chief use is in 

 shoring up the roofs of mines when the coal is removed. Almost any 

 kind of wood is suitable, but the stronger it is and the more durable, 

 the better. 



Increased Shipments of Greenheart 

 The exports of greenheart timber from British Guiaua were much 

 greater in 1913 than in the preceding year. That was partly due to 

 the low water in the rivers in 1912 which hindered the shipment of the 

 timber to the coast. It accumulated at interior points and was sent 

 out on the floods of 1913. 



Furniture Made from Ties 



Section men on the Nashville division of the Nashville, Chattanooga & 

 St. Louis Railroad recently found some walnut ties that were evidently 

 laid down years ago when the problem of material for crossties was less 

 serious (ban at present. They were removed and sent to the company's 

 shops and are now being converted into furniture for an offlcial's oflice. 



Flooring and Shelving Patterns 

 A London trade paper says that a point which has not infrequently 

 cropped up in recent years between shippers of planed goods and agents, 

 but which has not been authoritatively settled, is as to whether floorings 

 and shelvings must necessarily be chipped on the under side. There are 

 importers who contend that unless the undersurface has been chipped 

 the board has not been properly thicknessed ; or, put another way, who 

 claim that the board before going through the machine should be of 

 sufficient thickness to come into contact with the irons top and bottom. 

 Assuming that the planing machine has been correctly set, if the board 

 happens to have been scant before entering the planer — and such accidents 

 will sometimes happen even in the best regulated flooring establishments — 

 naturally the marks on the under-side incidental to the thicknessing part 

 of the process will be absent from that side of the board. On the other 

 hand, the rough board may, from a variety of causes, here unnecessary to 

 mention, be just so nicely gauged that it presents no chipping marks, 

 whilst still holding the standard scale of thickness. For shelving or other 

 purposes where the back of the board is seen, naturally such a board is 

 not so useful as one which shows a nicely cleaned-c£E under-surface, but 

 does it give rise to a claim? We imagine that in the old days of hand 

 labor it was only the edges and surface that the carpenter wrought, and 

 that thicknessing is only a process arising out of the introduction half a 

 century or so ago of machines for the preparation of planed boards. Still, 

 what we have to deal with is machine-planed goods. Fine saws and better 



Peytona Lumber Company 



Huntington West Va. 



- MANUFACTURERS- 

 PLAIN SAWN nxAzr 



RED AND WHITE UAJV 



YELLOW POPLAR 

 BASSWOOD 

 CHESTNUT 



ASH AND MAPLE 



BAND MILLS: 



Huntington, W. Va. Accoville, W. Va. 



SPECIAL PRICE 



FOR QUICK SALE: 



No. 1 Com. Hickory : 

 8 cars Ij^" to 4" 



No. 1 Com. Poplar: 

 15 cars ^" to 4" 



No. 1 Plain Oak: 

 20 cars 1" to 4" 



No. 2 Plain Oak: 



5 cars 1" 



No. 1 Common Ash : 



3 cars 2" 

 1 car 2i^" 



Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



Yards and Office: 



Kansas Avenue Memphis, Tenn. 



