Review of reviews and world's work . portant and are known locally and inthe trade as Quebracho Colorado (red) andQuebracho bianco (white), better quality of tanning extract andrailroad sleepers are both obtained from thered variety. The white is not so straight, and it furnishes less extract; but the logs areused for fence-posts and axles, and from it isobtained a drug which is used in bronchialdiseases. The habitat of the quebracho is theChaco, the mysterious no mans land of theearly explorers, many of whom lost theirlives there, while others returned with won-derful tales o
Review of reviews and world's work . portant and are known locally and inthe trade as Quebracho Colorado (red) andQuebracho bianco (white), better quality of tanning extract andrailroad sleepers are both obtained from thered variety. The white is not so straight, and it furnishes less extract; but the logs areused for fence-posts and axles, and from it isobtained a drug which is used in bronchialdiseases. The habitat of the quebracho is theChaco, the mysterious no mans land of theearly explorers, many of whom lost theirlives there, while others returned with won-derful tales of adventure. We read in theBulletin: To-day there are two Chacos, one belongingto Paraguay, the other to the Argentine Re-public. . El Chaco remained romanticand unproductive until the railroad . The railways helped to industrialize thisregion, pushing their way close to the edge andoccasionally into the Chaco; steamer: and sail-ing vessels crept farther into the interior onthe larger rivers, bringing manufactured goods. THE BARK OF THE TREE. (The workman always tries the tree, if it is to boused for Its tanning extract, by testing the thicknessof the bark and sap wood.) THE AMERICAN REI^IEW OF REl/IElVS. 11 abroad in order to exchange them for quebracho is the extract, which, as has been (oes of quebracho, until the mystery of the ^^^^^(1 above, is used in tanning leather. CO has laded awav before the march of tt u n n • l u i n • hzation, while logging camps and sawmills ^rom the Bulletin we gather the tollowing as busy there as they are in Wisconsin or interesting particulars concerning this in- ada. dustry: rhe quebracho, like the mahogany, usuallyids by itself or is found in groups of notre than four or five to the acre. It isI or three feet in diameter and is>vned by a rather thin, oval, or V-shapeds of branches and leaves. At ten years All the timber companies are adjusting theirplants so as to utilize the wood, either in itsentire output or in
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