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Now that pitch pine is more difficult to get in long 
lengths and large scantling, Oregon is being largely im- 
ported into Great Britain. It has been known as a good, 
sound timber for many years, but the cost of bringing it 
across prevented its competing with pitch pine in the 
English market when that timber was cheap ; but now that 
the price of pitch pine, indeed timber in general, has 
advanced so much during the last few years, Oregon has 
a better chance in the market, and is likely to be used in 
the future for all purposes for which pitch pine has been 
used in the past. There is little doubt that in the near 
future it will be the chief timber used for heavy construc- 
tion in Great Britain, where long lengths and large scant- 
lings are required. There are enormous supplies of this 
timber, and it can be obtained in almost any required 
length, such as 100 to 120 ft,, and up to 20 inches square, 
and in shorter lengths of larger sizes. The logs are sawn 
with perfectly square edges to 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20-inch 
sides; there is no difficulty in getting them 60 ft. long 
and 14 to 18 inches square, and the price is about the same 
as that of pitch pine. Good Oregon is not such a sound, 
strong timber as good pitch pine ; it is more variable in 
character, and it is doubtful if it will weather as well — we 
have not had sufficient experience to say. But, as we 
have said, pitch pine is difficult to get in large sizes, and 
the Oregon is quite equal to much of the pitch pine now 
imported. It is of reddish yellow colour, redder than pitch 
pine, but very like it in general structure, such as annual 
rings, straightness of grain, etc., so that when logs of the 
two timbers are lying together it is often difficult to tell 
one from the other by looking at the surface ; but Oregon 
has little of that resinous quality so characteristic of pitch 
pine, and the wood when sawn has a much woollier appear- 
ance, somewhat resembling Canadian red pine, and in 
