Another Great Authority Names More Than 100 Mahogany Trees In Philippines

By Jack Dionne

The further we go into this Philippine Mahogany problem, the more interesting it gets. The further we look, the more of the Meliaceae Family we find. in those very productive timber islands.

And the stranger it seems that rvhen the Philippine Mahogany case was tried they didn't even take the trouble to show that the term "Philippine Mahog"ry" could never be outlawed because there ARE Phillippine Mahoganieslots of them.

Here on my desk is a book by "E. E. Schneider, Wood Exp€rt," Bureau of Forestry of the Philippine Islands, said to be one of the greatest students of Philippine woods, and a recognized authority on botanical subjects. It is entitled l'Commercial Woods of the Philippines; their Preparation and lJses."

Here we find on page 130, under the general heading 'MELIACEAE," the following introductory paragraph :

"A family containing a considerable number of timber trees, most of them neither very large nor abundant, but many of excellent quality and beautiful coloring. The largest and most widely known tree of the family in the Philippines is calantas (Toona calantas), practicilly identical with both the Indian "toon" and

Huge Wooden Structures Built At Air Field

Three million, five hundred thousand feet of Douglas Fir was used on the construction of a grandstand and exhibition hall at the National Air Races at Inglqwood, Cal. The stand, which is 720 feet long, is built in twelve 60-foot sections, so that it may easily be moved. The 400-foot squaie exhibit hall is entirely covered with a special paper supplied by the Los Angeles' Paper Manufacturing Company. It has many interesting booths and among the exhibitors are the California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles. The lumb'er was supplied by the Mullin, Sun, Ganahl, Ifarris and Inglewood lumber companies.

the "Spanish cedar" or "cigar-box wood." The woods have a very large range of color and hardness, yellowish white, yellow, and various shades of red being commonest. A large part of all the species of the family have very characteristic aromatic odors."

The Federal Trade Commission acknowledges that the Meliaceae Family and the Mahogany Family are one, so here we have another authority stating that there are Meliaceae in the Philippines. But this authority goes farther and lists the members of the family, and how many do you suppose he lists? MORE THAN A HUNDRED MEMBERS. OF THE FAMILY IN THE ISLANDS!

The list is too long to give here, but is available to anyone who wants it.

But we now knorv that there are more than a hundred branches of the Mahogany Family in the Philippines. Are there Philippine Mahoganies? We'Il say there are. Ald one of these branches is produced at the rate of around three million feet annually.

We understand that these "Genuine Philippine Mahoganies" will hereafter be included in every Philippine stock on this'Side of the water.

Get the idea ?

George Good On Long Trip

George A. Good, Good Lumber Co., Tracy, left San Francisco, September 7, to attend the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the I.O.O.F. to be held in Montreal.

Mr. Good, who was accompanied by Mrs. Good, traveled by train to Sbattle, and by boat from there to Prince Rupert, crossihg Canada on the Canadian National Railroad to Montreal.

They expect to visit New York, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New Orleans, returning to California by the Sunset Route of the Southern Paci6c. after an absence of about four weeks.