BED ALDER OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 
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The ease with which a stand of red alder can be obtained, the 
rapid growth of the tree even on poor sites, its comparatively low 
fire risk, and the increasing value of the wood, all point to the 
desirability of making provision for a future supply of this timber. 
CLASSIFIED LIST OF USES FOR RED ALDER 
REPORTED USES 
Auto bodies, framework. 
Backs, mirror. 
Baskets — grape, grip. 
Bedroom sets, enamel finish. 
Bedsteads, enamel finish. 
Boards — pressing, seam. 
Booths, telephone. 
Boxes, grape. 
Brushes — backs, handles. 
Buffets — drawers, framework, panels. 
Cabinets — kitchen, medicine, sewing, toilet, 
towel. 
Cases, wall. 
Chairs ■ — with enamel finish — bedroom, 
breakfast, dressing, and nursery ; high, 
kitchen, frames for diners and over- 
stuffed ; legs for diners, office, and 
rockers ; posts for diners and office ; 
rails for diners and rockers ; slats for 
diners and rockers ; spindles for rockers ; 
stretchers for diners, office, and rockers. 
Charcoal. 
Chiffoniers — framework, drawers, panels. 
Closets, china. 
Core stock, high-grade panels. 
Cribs, nursery. 
Davenports, framework. 
Davenport beds, framework. 
Dishes — outing, wire-end. 
Drawers — backs, bottoms, slides. 
Dressers — -enamel finish — drawers, frame- 
work, panels. 
Ferneries. 
Frames — picture, mirror. 
Hallocks, berry. 
Handles — brush, file, tool. 
Hangers, coat — 17 styles. 
Ladders, rungs. 
Lamps — floor, table. 
Molding, picture. 
Molds, butter. 
Panels — core, for furniture and for wall. 
Pedestals — floor, table. 
Penholders. 
Pins, clothes. 
Plugs, paper. 
Racks — display, music, hat, towel, wall. 
Rungs, ladder. 
Shelving. 
Stands — flower, lamp, smoke, telephone, 
umbrella. 
Sticks — candle, clothes. 
Stools — foot, kitchen, nursery, office, tele- 
phone. 
Tables — with enamel finish — breakfast, 
dressing, nursery ; framework for exten- 
sion ; legs ; panels for breakfast, dining, 
library, office, parlor ; rails, slides, 
stretchers. 
Tabourettes. 
Toggles, tent. 
POSSIBLE USES FOR RED ALDER 
Backs — clock case, musical instrument. 
Beehives. 
Binding, school blackboard. 
Blocks, thermometer. 
Boards — drawing, piano fall, calendar 
mounting, sign. 
Boxes and crates — bottle, bread, cake, 
candy, cigar, cracker, crayon, dried fish, 
fruit, grain, macaroni, rough, seed, coal 
sieve, tea, plug tobacco, trunk, veneer. 
Buckets. 
Bungs. 
Butter labels. 
Butter molds. 
Butter tubs and pails. 
Carriages, baby. 
Cases, egg. 
Cupboards, kitchen. 
Dairy supplies. 
Dowels. 
Driers, clothes. 
Drums, fanning-mill. 
Egg carriers. 
Erasers, blackboard. 
Forms, hosiery-display. 
Hoppers — agricultural implements ; ma- 
chinery c for mill, flour. 
Keys, piano, organ. 
Kiddie coops. 
Looms. 
Organs — pipe, reed. 
Paper, book and magazine (soda process). 
Patterns or molds, brick, fire. 
Poles, curtain. 
Pulleys. 
Racks, piano — key. 
Refrigerators, outside — enamel finish. 
Rollers — map, shade. 
Slats, feeder, implement — agricultural. 
Strips, carpet — trim, interior, house. 
Sweepers, carpet. 
Toys. 
Trunks, compartment. 
Tubs, lard. 
Wheels, buffer. 
Uses for which red alder would probably be suitable but which 
might necessitate a change in design of the article in order to insure 
its adaptability : 
Actions — piano ; piano — player. 
Bases — electrotype, cut. 
Bellows — piano, organ. 
Bobbins. 
Bobs, fishing. 
Bottoms, key, case, piano. 
Chests, organ. 
Frames — camera, organ. 
Humidors. 
Incubators. 
Necks, instrument — stringed. 
Parts — camera ; organ, interior — reed and 
pipe ; piano, interior — player piano ; bil- 
liard table. 
Reels. 
Spindles. 
Spools. 
