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In naval stores again the south loses struction will be abandoned, and the 

 heavily. Austria, Belgium, Germany, demands for timber will naturally fall 

 Italy, Russia, and the United Kingdom off. England has been experiencing 

 take rosin worth $7,598,233, and tur- great activity in the building trades, 

 pentine valued at $4,719,781, a total of The Timber Trades Journal, of Lon- 

 $12,318,01-4. Most of this will be cut don, says, "Of course, the 'boom' in 

 off from market, for Germany alone the housebuilding trade will receive a 

 takes $4,823,815 worth, and commerce severe check; first, because few will 

 with Germany does not now exist, continue to spend money on speculative 

 France, being a producer and exporter enterprises of this sort, and secondly 

 of naval stores, does not take our south- .... the stocks in this country 

 ern product. The latest figures (1909) will be insufficient to meet any large 

 on the total production of rosin give demand for building timber. The Go\ - 

 3,263,857 barrels, valued at $12,576,- eminent also will scarcely be able t^ 

 721. In that year the total production press on with its social programme, and 

 of turpentine was 28,988,954 gallons, the Housing Bill will either be post- 

 valued at $12,654,228. There can be poned or abandoned." 

 no doubt that since these Census fig- Continental business is paralyzed 

 ures were gathered the quantity of and all sorts of public works have been 

 rosin and turpentine produced has fal- abandoned. 



len off and the value has increased. A So, even aside from crippled corn- 

 comparison of the figures of total pro- merce, the normal demands of peace 

 duction with those of exports to the are at a standstill.. Even though all the 

 countries now engaged in war shows timber required for military operations 

 that by far the greater proportion of might be transported without risk, the 

 all naval stores produced has been quantities used would not begin to corn- 

 going to them. pensate for the vast decrease in build- 

 Nearly all our hardwood exports go ing and manufacturing in those coan- 

 to Europe, and principally to those tries actively at war. 

 countries now engaged in war. In this 



connection it is interesting that a large DEPRESSING EFFECTS AT HOME. 

 part of our walnut and the very All this curtailment of foreign mar- 

 choicesthas been going to the present kets, the greatly augmented risks of 

 belligerents, and mainly to Germany, to foreign shipments, and increases in 

 be made into gun stocks. Here again costs o f transportation and insurance, 

 the South suffers, in commerce if not mea n over-production at home, or an 

 m production, because New Orleans is ent i re cessation of activity such as has 

 the principal source of hardwood ex- already taken place in parts of the 

 ports. Proportionately, the hardwood sout h which have been supplying the 

 industry is the hardest hit of all south- export trade. The Southern Lumber- 

 ern lumber, because such a large part man< w hil e granting that one-tenth of 

 of the product depended on the export the southern pine cut is exported, says 

 market. A single example, that of the "j t j s no killing matter even if the 

 vast export of oak barrel staves to hold w hole of these exports be wholly 

 French wine and German beer, is suf- stopped for a few months." But the 

 ficient to indicate what war is doing. m in s w hi cn supply this tenth will take 

 The conditions arising out of difficul- ii tt l e comfort from the statement, par- 

 ties m transportation are only indicated ticularly in connection with that "if." 

 m the foregoing paragraphs, which All except the most sanguine authori- 

 are intended to be merely suggestive. ties think the war is quite as likely to 



be an affair of a year or more, as of a 



PEACE DEMANDS CUT OFF r TV c ,/ V 



few months. I he southern Lumber- 

 In countries at war the arts of peace man journal takes a fairly hopeful 

 are at a standstill. The building of view, but much of its hopefulness de- 

 homes will cease, large projects of con- pends on certain "ifs," which are ever 



