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SELLING LUMBER 



Where 

 Treated 

 Lumber 

 May Be 

 Obtained. 



Where 

 Treated 

 Material 

 Should Be 

 Used. 



vision should be given to the condition of the timber before treat- 

 ment and all of the steps involved in the process of treatment. 



One of the most important considerations from the user's 

 standpoint is to know where to get treated lumber, where to use it, 

 and how to use it. Answering the first question, treated lumber 

 can now be purchased in practically any part of the United States 

 from various timber preserving companies, a list of which can 

 easily be obtained. Dealers have not so far used any large 

 amounts of preserved wood, chiefly because of the lack of demand. 

 As soon as the public finds out that a treated piece of yellow pine 

 is worth many times more than what they pay for it, such demand 

 will come just as certainly as it did abroad. 



Answering the second question, where to use it, preserved 

 lumber can and should be used wherever lasting power is of im- 

 portance aside from lumber used for interior or decorative pur- 

 poses. This will include practically all forms of yellow pine con- 

 struction used out of doors, whether it be for ties, piling, paving 

 blocks, porches, fence posts or poles, lumber used in the construc- 

 tion of barns, cattle troughs, garages, etc. It will be safe for 

 those who are interested in the proper marketing of Southern yel- 

 low pine to remember that preservative wood, which will of course 

 apply chiefly to wood with a high percentage of sapwood, can be 

 urged upon the public with every confidence that claims made there- 

 for will be substantiated. Properly creosoted sap yellow pine will 

 last fifty to sixty years or more. Some of the specimens before 

 you will bear this out. I have recently examined a fence near 

 Norfolk, Va v constructed of sap pine. The posts were treated in 

 1883 and the palings in 1894 ; in other words, the posts have now 

 been in service thirty-three years and the palings twenty-two years, 

 and they are all as sound and perfect as the day they were con- 

 structed. Properly creosoted lumber is just as strong as the un- 

 treated lumber. I have a strong belief that the American people 

 will cheerfully utilize any material of which they appreciate its 

 fitness and usefulness. Think what it means to build a fence of 

 yellow pine at the present time and have the two by fours and 

 posts rot within four or five years, and then consider again the 

 same kind of fence which will last fifty years. We have in prop- 

 erly preserved lumber a field for future application for every pur- 

 pose which can certainly be made one of the strongest talking points 

 in favor of the use of wood. 



