. American forestry. Forests and forestry. AMERICAN FORESTRY. PLANIXr, MILL PRODUCTS In Iiouse and other lines of building construction considerable attention is given to floors, tliose of hardwood generally being preferred. Rotli red and white oak are nsed indiscriminately for this purpose, together with maple and beech. Ifardwood flooring is usually ^ inch thick, 1 inch to 2]^2 inches wide and both end and side matched. It is most often laid the same as standard flooring, except that a sub- floor of some soft wood is laid diagonally below it with deadening material between. For certain class
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. AMERICAN FORESTRY. PLANIXr, MILL PRODUCTS In Iiouse and other lines of building construction considerable attention is given to floors, tliose of hardwood generally being preferred. Rotli red and white oak are nsed indiscriminately for this purpose, together with maple and beech. Ifardwood flooring is usually ^ inch thick, 1 inch to 2]^2 inches wide and both end and side matched. It is most often laid the same as standard flooring, except that a sub- floor of some soft wood is laid diagonally below it with deadening material between. For certain classes of floors, such as those of offices, show windows and stores, the parquetry designs are preferred. In such instances numerous other hardwoods which contrast in color are employed for borders. England, New York, ami farther .south were frequeiitl}' of that wood. Some of the venerable structures are standing yet, and their stability wins the admiration of all who see them. Numerous instances of the enduring properties of white oak might be cited, but a few will suffice. The West fall blockhouse, which was built in Tygart's Yalley, Virginia, now West Virginia, as a defense against In- dians in 1774, stood one hundred thirty-two years, and when torn down, its white oak logs showed few points of decay. In 177(i, John Minear, a German from Penn- sylvania, built a milldam in the same region, and a cen- tury afterwards the oak logs had decayed so little that the hewer's ax marks were clearly seen. The oak logs in which portholes were cut, in the blockhouse now standing in the center of Pittsburgh, on the site of Fort Duquesne, were remarkably well preserved though exposed to weather during nearly one hundred fifty years. White oak logs from Fort Henry, on the Ohio River, at Wheel- ing, under whose walls was fought "the last battle of the Revolution," September 11, 1782, were manufactured into picture frames one hundred six years after the fort was built. Most of the ol<
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