HOW TO SAVE $100,000,000 A YEAR 



SO GREAT are the possibilities be creosoted piling from Galveston, 



and so urgent the need of wider which is still sound after 37 years in 



use of preserved timbers that teredo infested waters; there will be 



it is estimated that $100,000,000 wood blocks which have served as 



a year would not cover the saving which flooring for over 30 years ; creosoted ties 



could be made by the universal treat- with a record of a quarter of a century 



ment of woods in commercial use, which in situations where untreated ties of 



are exposed to decay. A Forest Service the same character will rot in six years, 



bulletin issued five years ago made the There will be shown the possibilities 



estimate then that about $72,000,000 a of treating wood such as gum, sap 



year would be saved if proper preserva- pine, beech and other hardwoods, which 



tive treatment was given to all kinds of rot quickly, so that they will resist 



structural timber which can be treated decay almost indefinitely. This one 



with profit. development has opened an enormous 



In order to show the wood using pub- field in the utilization of timber for 



lie just what may be done in wood pre- which there was little or no market 



serving, the American Wood Preservers' untreated. 



Association has decided to have an The exhibit will demonstrate, for 

 elaborate exhibit at the Forest Products example, the advantages of framing 

 Exposition in Chicago, from April 30 timber before treatment, the boring and 

 to May 9, and in New York from May adzing of cross-ties before treatment, the 

 21 to May 30. This exhibit will show distribution of preservatives in various 

 the development of an industry which woods, and the application of established 

 has trebled in the number of plants and principles in the preservative processes 

 quadrupled in the capacity of output and ultimate use of the material. The 

 during the past 10 years. By charts more general educational features will 

 and graphic representations will be be fully covered. In the center of the 

 indicated the wonderful saving of treated space will be a model of a typical plant 

 over untreated material on both a cost and yard showing the equipment and 

 and physical basis. All of the commer- general layout of a modern plant, also 

 cial woods of the countrv will be shown a model of a creosoted silo. Supple- 

 as to their adaptability for treatment, men ting this will be transparencies and 

 and the preservatives and processes bromides of both general and special 

 best suited for various woods in differ- features in plant construction and 

 ent conditions will be exhibited. Rail- operation, and the use and character 

 road cross ties, which are treated to the of treated material, 

 extent of over 32, 000, 000 annually, repre- Fundamentally the exhibit is being 

 sent the most important phase of the planned with the hope of bringing home 

 industry; but wood in a hundred other to the lumberman, the architect, the 

 forms can be chemically preserved, and engineer, and the general public, a 

 the more important of these miscella- realization which they have never had 

 neous uses, will be shown by actual wood before of the magnitude and economic 

 specimens. The list of miscellaneous importance of the wood preserving 

 material suitable for treatment, includes industry. A lesson in conservation will 

 piling, poles, paving blocks, construe- also be taught through the obvious 

 tion timbers, cross-arms, fence posts, reduction of waste and the fuller ser- 

 mine timbers and lumber of all vice from wood in many forms. If the 

 kinds. lessons which the exhibit will teach were 

 As irrefutable proof of the efficiency of fully applied, the economy expended 

 proper treatment, many actual speci- would duplicate the annual expendi- 

 mens of treated material, which has had ture on our army or navy in times of 

 long service, will be shown. There will peace. 



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