WESTERl{ TUMBER STATES c0.

9m Fife Bldg.

San Francisco

Phone Dug. 3415

WHITE PINE SUGAR PINE

DOUGLAS FIR

REDWOOD FIR PANELS and DOORS

There is no 'point on even the largest islancl over 50 to 75 miles from tidelvater, and the topography of the Coun. try is of such a character that it does not present insurmountable obstacles to the building of railroads.

The trees of the Philippines are very large and yield lumber bf excellent average rvidths and lengths, in contrast with the rapidly decreasing average widths and lengths of lumber from our native forests.

The Philippine woods used here for interior finish, furniture and cabinetwork, are Red and White Lauan, Almon and Tanguile. The White Lauan and Almon are light red in color, and the Red Lauan and Tanguile dark red. These woods are sold under the general name of Philippine Mahogany, and while not botanically true mahoganies, their color, texture and appearance when stained and finished. so closely reseml)le the Central American and African Mahoganies, that it is difficult even for one familiar rvith hardrvoods, and wholly irrpossible for the uninitiated. to distinguish one from the other.

Other r'voods brought here from the Philippines are Apitong and Lumbayao, which are used largely for automobile body building as a substitute for Oak, Hickory and Ash.

The Government owns more than 97.5 percent of all the standing timber in the Philippines, which is a guarantee that the forests rvill not be wastefully exploited. Licenses and concessions for the cutting of lumber are obtainable on very easy terms, the title to the land .remaining in the Government and the forest charges being paicl progressively as the lumber is cut.

Because of the low ocean freight rates, rvhich are lower even than the rates on lumber from New .Orleans to Los Angeles Harbor through the Panama Canal, and less tharr half the all rail rate on l-rardwood lurnber from the East to Los AngeleS, we can coirfidently look forrvarcl to a continually increasing supply of excellent hardrvoods from the Philippines for many years.

Phillippine Mahogany is norv being shipped to Eastern manufacturing centers, made into furniture and shipped back here. There is no reason why this operation cannot be reversed, and u'ith our superior climatic conditions, the most favorble in the rvorld for the manufacture of the articles of wood, furniture manufacturing, already a lusty young industry here, should soon not onll' supply all our own requirements, but reach out into distant markets as well.

There has been a phenominal increase in the use of Rerl Gum in this market in the past four or five years. This wood is not the Eucalyptris of the Pacific Coast, as man-y seem to believe, but the product of a tree grown in tl-re South Central States. This tree is of the rvitch hazel farnily , but in contrast with the rvitch hazel, which is a small scrubby tree, of no value for lumber, it grows to a f arge size, many of the specimens exceeding a height of LZO feet and a diameter of four feet.

The term "red" does not refer to any particular color of the u'ood in the tree, but is said to have. referred originall-v to the color of the autumn leaves. and not to the wood. Some of the trees have thin sap wood, and others are practically all sap wood. This often leads to misunderstandings, as a buyer, unfamiliar rvith this characteristic. ma;- think that Gum lumber shon,ing some sap u.ood is not Red Gum.

However, lumber shorving any considerable percentage of sap is not as valuable as the all red, or heart rvood, and is sold at a lower price as "Red Gum, Sap no Defect." It is used very largely as a base for ivory and rvhite enamel finish. atrd is also stained to imitate Mahogany and Walnut. The furniture factories use it in vast cluantities.

Sorrle Red Gum trees yielcl a rvood shor,r'ing a figurg (C."ttr,*d "r P"g. 5r)