194 AMERICAN LUMBER IN FOREIGN MARKETS. 



Deals: 



First, Archangel standard hundred ..$80. 19 $87.98 



First,St. Petersburg do 65.61 75.13 



Second, St. Petersburg do 51.03 58.30 



Wyburg do.... 41.31 46.17 



Gefle do.... 48.60 53.46 



Gothenburg do 46. 17 53. 46 



Finland do.... 41.31 48.60 



Prepared flooring: 



Red, Norway do 43.74 46.17 



Mixed white, Norway do 34.62 36.45 



HOWARD Fox. 

 FALMOUTH, February 26, 1894. 



GLASGOW. 



NATIVE WOODS. 



The native woods of Scotland cut but little figure, as they do not 

 come in competition with any of our timber and lumber.' The native 

 woods are Scotch pine, larch, fir, and beech. They are used only in 

 limited quantities for cheap articles; the timber is short, small, and 

 knotty. 



KINDS OF LUMBER USED. 



In shipbuilding, part of the masts are of pitch pine, which is also used 

 for flooring of decks, and for ceiling and sheathing. Elm is sometimes 

 used for ceiling and sheathing. The deck houses are generally built 

 of white pine and teak and the cabins are lined with various woods? 

 teak, principally, in my observation. As nearly, if not all, the ships 

 built on the Clyde are now made of iron, the consumption of lumber 

 and timber in shipbuilding has materially decreased, compared with 

 the time of wood shipbuilding. Oak is used extensively in the build- 

 ing of railway carriages; 80 per cent of the oak imported is used for 

 this purpose. 



White birch is preferred for spool wood by the thread manufacturers. 

 This comes mostly from Maine, and since I have been in charge of this 

 consulate every American vessel reporting to me has been loaded with 

 this wood. The American birch seems to be considered of the best 

 quality and the most marketable. The birch from Sweden, Norway, 

 and Nova Scotia is inferior to ours. Large birch spools, or bobbins, 

 manufactured in Sweden and Norway are used here. These might be 

 displaced by the same size of manufactured spools from our birch. The 

 thread-makers generally prefer to buy their spools ready-made and 

 direct from the manufacturers. Some sycamore, or plane, and ash are 

 also used in the manufacture of spools. 



