. American forestry. Forests and forestry. Photo bv P. L. Butlrkk. A TIMBER PRESERVING PLANT IN LOUISIANA Although the Iieartwood of longleaf pine, if free from timber-destroying fungi, is very durable, yet more and more of it is being treated with preservatives to increase its durability. Tliis plant treats railroad ties, paving blocks, structural timbers and other products. No very great imjirovement is looked for till the close come general till the supply of white pine waned, but to- of the hostilities, when it is not too much to expect that day it has come to its own, and it is shipped by
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. Photo bv P. L. Butlrkk. A TIMBER PRESERVING PLANT IN LOUISIANA Although the Iieartwood of longleaf pine, if free from timber-destroying fungi, is very durable, yet more and more of it is being treated with preservatives to increase its durability. Tliis plant treats railroad ties, paving blocks, structural timbers and other products. No very great imjirovement is looked for till the close come general till the supply of white pine waned, but to- of the hostilities, when it is not too much to expect that day it has come to its own, and it is shipped by water and rail clear north into Canada and is used amid the stumps of the old pineries of Michigan and Wisconsin. It travels west to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and disputes the markets there successfull}' with its western competi- tors. The annual cut is estimated at 12,500,000,000 feet, its nearest rival is Douglas fir, which is estimated at billions of feet of longleaf will be used to repair the ravages of war in the various war zones. Longleaf was favorably known in Eurojie and tht West Indies before it secureil much of a foothold in the northern market of our own country. The white pine regions of Pennsylvania and Michigan were much nearer, and the people were more accustomed to that wood than 5,200,000,00(1 feet. Its old rival, white jiine. has fallen to its southern competitor, so that, although it was in- off to about 2,500,000,000 feet. So far as statistics go, troduced into the northern markets in the seventies, it 1907 seems to have been the banner year, when a cut of was not looked ujjun with favor. In 1892, wlien the cut 13,215,185,000 feet was reported. of white pine was over 9,000,000,000 feet, that of longleaf Like the white pine industry, the longleaf industry has was estimated as ()0,000,000 feet. Its use did not be- moved ever onward, seeking new and virgin Ll>.\r,; '. I-ilR CAR III i\ This wood is extensively
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