Ornamental Woods. 



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A Giant of the Forest 



Nowhere in the world is there such an amount or such 

 a variety of useful and ornamental woods as in the Virgin 

 Forests which stand around the basin of the Great River. 

 Over a hundred different kinds of highly valuable woods 

 have been cut from a piece of land less than half a mile 

 square. Of these many were dark-colored veined woods, 

 susceptible of a higli polish — as beautiful as rose-wood or 

 ebony. But the development of this industry has not even 

 begun. Tliere are only two saw-mills on the river be- 



