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Mississippi and its tributaries. 1 he 
world’s demand for quarter-sawed oak 
is now being largely drawn from that 
part of the country. 
There are some special considerations 
involved in the oak question. We 
must understand that the demand is not 
confined to this country. I here is a 
growing requirement in Europe and in 
the British Provinces. The entire civ¬ 
ilized world is to depend on the Amer¬ 
ican supply, when, as a matter of fact, 
there is no more here than will be re¬ 
quired for domestic consumption. If 
the finest oak area in the world, that in 
the States north of the Ohio river, has 
been denuded, while the growth of the 
country’s population and its industries 
was in its incipient stage, what will be 
the effect on the remaining supply, now 
that the requirement is to be measured 
by present and future population and 
industrial development ? It is only with¬ 
in recent years that oak has been con¬ 
sumed, on a large scale, for furniture 
and interior finish. Simultaneously 
with the growth and establishment of 
demand for oak, other important cabi¬ 
net and finishing woods have shrunken 
in supply, some having nearly disap¬ 
peared. We have seen the rise and fall 
of the walnut vogue. The fall came 
simply because the supply was so nearly 
exhausted that it could not longer furn¬ 
ish the material for a large manufacture 
in the lines of cabinet work and finish. 
Cherry followed, and introduced the 
taste for the lighter tints in interior 
furnishings. Birch is now considerably 
in request, because it can be finished 
in the lighter or darker red shades, as an 
accompaniment of mahogany and 
cherry. Maple is being employed for 
like results. But cherry, birch and 
maple will not last many years. They 
are now in such limited supply, and so 
difficult of procurement in adequate 
quantity for extensive cabinet lines, 
that they simply afford a diversion from 
the monotony of oak. The truth is, 
that oak is the only remaining wood 
which can be employed in a large way 
for furniture and hard-finishing pur¬ 
poses. Thus we can see that the de¬ 
mand for oak, though large and growing 
in recent years, is to be much greater 
and rapidly increasing from the present 
time onward. It, thence, follows that 
the supply in the South will be depleted 
much more rapidly than was that north 
of the Ohio river. 
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