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REST RESOURCES OF SOUTH 
AMERICA. 
\ forests of South America are principally 
[al, but in the Andes Mountains and the 
•rn end of the continent are found forests 
icmperate and sub-arctic character resem- 
5 hose of the United States and Canada. 
■ tropical forests are totally different from 
>rth woods. There are no solid stands of 
1 species or even of a few mixed species, 
id, hundreds of kinds of trees grow thor- 
mixed and scattered through the whole 
j This is one of several reasons that 
> logging in tropical forests so expensive, 
her hunters have explored nearly the 
1 tropical forest in search of that neces- 
rticle of commerce, but aside from that 
.American forests have only been cut into 
;few miles back from the coast and the 
:>al ports and rivers. Even in this area 
he species at present most valuable for 
;'rce have been thus far cut, for example, 
i mahogany, rosewood, lignum-vitse, fustic 
onwood. Railroads, where they exist, 
5 such exorbitant freight rates that they 
ot much encouraged exploitation of the 
;. In addition to this, the sparsity of 
ftion and lack of labor have also retarded 
Ipment of the forests, 
x of the woods growing in these tropical 
are very heavy, hard and rich in color, 
aeart is so hard that it nicks the axes of 
tippers and will last for over one hundred 
|n water. It should be noted here that 
1 le of ax used in the tropics is quite dif- 
Jfrom our common north woods ax, and 
-very narrow bit. The American broad- 
:,axes would be very ineffective on such 
oods. 
: r th is so luxuriant and rapid that ruins 
ndoned farms are promptly covered with 
1; young growth of trees and vines that 
iw years obscures the marks of civiliza- 
The great forest of the Amazon basin is 
I hundred miles long east and west by 
mndred and fifty miles north and south, 
ors nearly a million square miles in 
But as it lacks construction timbers it 
'! be looked to for relief from the ap- 
( ng scarcity in that kind of wood. 
: Amazon forest presents the usual 
T> of tropical growths, a tangle of vines 
fj the great trees together and obscuring 
j, and leaves hanging from the branches 
rpes, while underneath is a snarl of 
■and. creeping plants in which are hidden 
pecies of fibrous plants and cacti with 
'arp stings and thorns. 
■ ropical American woods are peculiar!v 
< to withstand the ravages of insects 
mate. In Paraguay, timbers of lapacho 
bracho which were used by the Jesuits 
rtrueting their missions, are still well 
‘id in the ruins. In contrast to this, our 
Srth American woods, which are so ex- 
V imported for construction in South 
ifi, rapidly decay and are eaten by insects, 
is in this country, not only in the old 
it even to-day on the frontier, so also 
iyi America in Colombia, Chile and other 
ifhe forests are cut down and burned, to 
lid for agriculture. 
transportation difficulties in the moun- 
dcountries are so great that the cities of 
'it coast depend wholly upon imports, 
from United States, for their lumber. 
*vn mountain forests, which are reported 
fery extensive and valuable, are inac- 
II 
-lombia, all articles to or from the in- 
nust be transported a portion of the 
feast pn pack animals, and packages are 
In weight to 150 pounds and in length to 
- Cumber is not so extensively used in 
iftion of homes as with us. Brick, stone, 
'] tiles are extensively used, also bamboo. 
Jombia at least the Australian eucalvp- 
siroven a vigorous grower, just as it has 
1 California. The American Consul at 
deports that this tree reaches merchant- 
; in twenty to twenty-five years without 
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