Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
VALUABLE WOODS.
Many of the Finest Kinds In Existence
Plentiful, but Almost Unknown.

Many of the Finest Kinds In Existence
Plentiful. but Almost Unknown.
Many of the finest woods in existence
are yet unknown or only slightly
known to the manufacturers of wood
in the civilized world The woods of
Central and South America are perhaps
the most remarkable as we'll as the best
known. In the yet untouched forests of
this continent are many woods far finer
than any of those now in use These
woods range from pure white to jet
black in color, and many of them are
most beautifully marked and veined.
Some of them are so hard that they
turn the edges of axes, chisels and other
tools, while the band saw cuts them
only slowly.
In the Columbian exposition there
were many displays of little known
woods, and the finest of them were those
from Argentine Republic, Brazil and
other South American countries. Some
of these southern woods yielded to the
teeth of the band saw not the ordinary
sawdust, but fine powder, fine as the
finest flour, SO hard were the woods.
Some of them burned but slowly. 9th
ers possess qualities that keep them free
from insects. Some of them seem to be
practically indestructible by air and
water
All along the eastern slopes of t|
Andes up to the snow line on thu
great elevations throughout all I
great river valleys and in some of Z
wide areas of level country in Sd
America are great forests of fine WI
that are specially fit for the finest G
net and furniture work, and also
shipbuilding, carpentry and other in
dustrial arts in which wood is the raw
material. These great forests are now
an unknown quantity in the commercial
world, but they will come rapidly into
the knowledge of men and into indus
trial use when once the railroad has
reached them.
Before many years, it is safe to pre-
dict, the South American and Central
American republics will be threaded by
railroads, and then those wonderful
demand for new and fine woods in all
civilized countries. Lumber World.
Overheard In the Restaurant.
She-I went to see beautiful play
while we We're in New York.
He-What was it?
She-Well, l can't remember the
name exactly. 1t sounded like CDR.
Deppety."
He-Who took the leading character:
Shea man of the name of Willard,
Francis Willard. Oh, he's just elegantl
Magnificent! He doesn't speak very
plainly, and he can't sing little bit;
but oh, he's just perfectly grand.
He-Was it play or an opera?
She-Oh, something of that sort!
had quarrel with Herbert about you
that night and didn't notice much.
He-Why did you quarrel about me?
She-Well, told him of our engage
ment that night before We started for
the theater and then asked him if he
still wanted to take me out, and he
laughed and said, Certainly, would
just as soon take an engaged girl to an
entertainment as any kind of girl,
horrid thing!
He-Why was he horrid?
She-I just revenged myself by sit,
ting and thinking of you all the even
ing Oh, say, those are actors sitting at
that table over there
He (suspiciously)-How doyou know?
She-Why, because they keep looking
around to see if people are watching
them. Actors always do that to adver-
tise themselves, you know.
And the waiter brought the checks. -
ROStOn Tourna1