64 USES OF COMMERCIAL, WOOI>S OF THE UNITED STATES. 



is heavier and stronger than, eastern white pine or the sugar pine of 

 the far West. In some respects, chiefly in appearance, its wood bears 

 considerable resemblance to both. The building of flumes to lead 

 water along the faces of steep mountains and across sandy tracts, 

 for floating timber, operating mines, and for irrigation, calls for very 

 large quantities of wood, and yellow pine meets much of the demand. 

 It frequently grows in the regions where the flumes are built, and for 

 that reason it is the cheapest and most convenient material available. 



It fills an important place as a fencing material, being occasionally 

 but not frequently used for posts, and more often as boards and 

 pickets. It gives good service as bridge timbers, and in many regions 

 it is the best obtainable for bridge floors, though for this purpose 

 it is inferior to nearly all species of oak and to Douglas fir and 

 western hemlock. It furnishes sidewalks in many towns where wood 

 is the only available material. As plasterer's lath it meets a large 

 demand. In some regions, especially in Colorado, it is made into 

 shingles. 



This pine loses 2,000 pounds in weight per 1,000 feet b. m. in the 

 process of seasoning. The lumber is widely exported, and reaches 

 New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, the Continent 

 of Europe, and elsewhere. 



Some of the finished products of the wood, notably sashes and 

 blinds, are sold both at home and abroad as white pine. Planing 

 mills that manufacture flooring and ceiling obtain some of their 

 best lumber from western yellow-pine yards. It is often known as 

 California white pine, and is made into several kinds of interior 

 finish, molding, spindles, balusters, railing, panels, newels, brackets, 

 chair boards, and frames. The wood is now shipped as far east as 

 Wisconsin to be made into these products. It is one of the woods 

 employed by pattern makers, though it is not generally considered 

 equal to white pine for that purpose. 



The match factories draw some of their supplies from this wood 

 in northern California. 



It is an important box material on the Pacific coast, and is widely 

 used in packing establishments as far east as the Mississippi. It 

 competes successfully with sugar pine and western white pine for 

 boxes in which to ship fruit. Large quantities of lemons, oranges, 

 apples, peaches, raisins, prunes, cherries, and other products of the 

 orchards and vineyards of the far West and the Rocky Mountain 

 region reach the consumer in boxes of this pine. 



Slack coopers employ it in manufacturing buckets, kegs, and bar- 

 rels for shipping vegetables and fruits, and it is also used for barrels 

 to contain certain fluids, but not for alcoholic liquors. 



