Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-12-03
EUCALYPTUS TIMBER
Facts and Figures Compiled From
State and u. S. Govern
ment Reports.

bulletin, issued by the forestry So
ciety of California outlines the fu-
ture use of Eucalyptus timber. The
bulletin from which the following
extract is taken is issued by the For
estry society of California, which is
devoted to the preservation, mainte-
nance and extension Of watersheds
and the increase of timber products.
Anyone desiring these bulletins
regularly, or wishing information re-
gardlng the planting or culture Of
forest trees, can obtain same free of
cost by addressing the Forestry Soci-
ETY. of California, Chamber of Com
merce Building, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia.
A day hardly passes now but what
there is some development in the eu-
calyptus hardwood timber question
in California. Large office buildings
and private residences have been fin
ished throughout with eucalyptus
wood, which facts have drawn the
attention of cabinet makers, wood
workers and implement manufactur-
ers to the question of eucalyptus
wood as source of supply.
Local manufacturers and wood
workers have already made furniture
veneering on large scale from the
common blue-gum, which sells in the
local markets in California at $3.50
per Thousand feet or 800 per M high
er than the very best mahogany ve-
neering.
The question has naturally been
asked from time to time, as to where
the market would come from for this
wood. Today the market is develop
ing in one month more than we can
produce in two years, and this ratio
will continue for some time. 1t is
somewhat like the development Of
the deciduous and also the citrus
fruit industry in California.
The market for good furniture
woods and building material and con-
struction timber is too well known
to need any comment, but the public
has not known that California can
supply this demand so rapidly.
Let any man glance over the por-
tions of the government reports, and
he will have an array of facts from
the most reliable authority regarding
ease of culture, rapidity of growth
and fabulous value that is bewilder-
ing, and if such statements were
read for the first time in document
from private sources, they would like
ly be denounced by the general pub
lie as an impossible dream Of pro-
moters.
Californians can harvest ten TO tf-
teen crop of hardwood while the man
in Eastern States can only harvest
one from his wood lot. Besides that,
the Californian Will have continual
regrowths from his grove forever be-
cause the trees sprout rapidly from
the old stumps, after each cutting,
ana keep on DOING so, 1Or harvest al
ter harvest, continuously, for many
generations of men. With such phe-
nomenal facts as these before US,
demonstrated by sixty years of ex-
perience in California, and several
centuries of experiences in Austria
liza, the native home of these trees,
there is no question but that the
eucalyptus timber industry of Cali
fornia promises to become the eighth
wonder of the world.
AS an indication of the known
value of this timber, and the extent
to which land for its growth is being
prepared it can be stated that the
Sante Fe road is now planting some
5000 acres Of eucalyptus for ties and
timbers.