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Defense. The committee adds: "Actually this will not exceed 5 per 

 cent of one year's lumber production of this country." Some of the 

 war-time uses to which this lumber will be put are : buildings at train- 

 ing camps for Army and Navy and for aviation schools, Y. M. C. A. 

 buildings at camps ; furnishings, such as cots, tent poles, docks, piers, 

 trench lining, automobiles, saddles, gunstocks, packing boxes and crates, 

 tools, railroad construction work and shipbuilding. The special com- 

 mittee representing the Southern Pine Association, and acting for the 

 Southern Pine Emergency Bureau, announces that "an order for lOO 

 ships to be sawed by southern mills has been placed by the U. S. 

 Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, at an average price 

 of $35 per thouand feet at the mills." A large number of the southern 

 mills have signified their willingness to furnish the material. 



H. E. Surface, reporting on the possibilities of developing pulpwood 

 resources of Alaska, states the present stand of merchantable timber 

 on the 8 million acres of the Tongass Forest as 70 billion feet, as a 

 conservative figure, all coniferous wood. Taking 20 to 30 feet as the 

 annual growth per year and acre, this alone could support a 1,000-ton 

 newsprint mill. But conditions are otherwise so undeveloped that the 

 investment of many millions of dollars would be involved in establishing 

 such a manufacture. 



xA.mong comparatively new uses of wood and its derivatives may be 

 cited paper board for buildings, water-proof paper for shirts, storm- 

 proof paper umbrellas, paper string and twine, chandeliers, lamp 

 brackets and paper lamp-wicks, lamp chimneys, paper furniture, bags 

 and trunks, paper jackets for sausages, a long list of vulcanized fiber- 

 ware, paper window-shades, matting, rugs, and other floor coverings, 

 paper insulators, car wheels, paper boats, as substitute for cotton as 

 wadding in manufacture of explosives, in making dressings for surgi- 

 cal work, paper socks and paper boots, paper sheets, pillow cases and 

 mattresses, in combination with cotton underclothing, sheets, jerseys, 

 and other clothing, in place of clay for modeling, waste paper, photo- 

 graphic films. 



The final experiment of the de-inking of paper process, invented by 

 Dr. T. Jesperson, of Neenah, Wisconsin, has proved it to be practical. 

 In an experiment at the Riverside Paper Company's mill the paper ran 



