The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-03-23

Ill kulitlS hubasA tpsA~aiel - g.s-,, q
,tAHo GAN is PEER OF DEC ORA:
STiyEsH ARDWo ODDS. ~
For refined preston in the ne manu- 1illll
fact iuire ofs furniture and all otaetforTm1''''
! 81 decorah Hon mahogany Is undoubted::.
tn me l peer 81 the, hardwoois. No
wood III %! universally used to-day for
4 this purpose In every city and country
sof tae; world; no wood Is SO freely and
nss,cessiully initiated. 4 s:1
& America ); architects and men Of the
furniture and cabinet.making indus
tries draw heaylly upon the markets
of The world in athe strugqlc to sup.
MI an ever increasing demand for
i genuine Smahog Hundreds Of tons
i fslogs annually are imported into this
country and worked into beautiful
forms tos grace fine homes or dignity
I The interior Of public buildings large
hotels orSrailway cars. 4
i 3A Few ~ ears ago mahogany was re-
X garded sas$ a very precious wood. and
WAS employed only In the interior Of
sthe finest houses and in the manu-
factures % the most expensive furnt:
tnre. During the ipast few years, how.
Fever, there has been a wonderful de-
3gelopment I'm; mahogany importation
I land use. NJ n; 1; x, \. st5,t
& total quantity Of mahogany i'm.
ported last year was nearly forty-two
Ss1mllllon: board feet. OF this large
amount North America supplied G5.6
per cent. and Europe rs per cent.
Though Europe supplied only o little
more than one iourth as much mahog.
4 any asS there; was imported from North
America dts average value per thou,
sand feet was moro than twice as
muca; due to finer quality. The re.
nainder iof the imports came from
Afrlca, South America. and Asia. Fl
y Mexico furnished $46,2 per, cent. Of
4 The mahog any 4 coming from North
America Nicaragua followed with 1872
per cent British Honduras with 1876
+ per cent, Cuba with s. per cent, and
Honduras with 74 per cent. Other
Central American countries furnished
$the small remaining percentage,
IA Immediately following the war with
Espain, lumbermen of the United
States exploited the largest and most
accessible ofitne Cuban mahogany for
tests For asfew years the forests Of
Cuba attributed more largely to the
supply in@ this country than at tie
present time, largely owing to the
rapldlty swithSwhlch this valuable tim.
Der was logged and shipped. An en-.
INglneer employed by American authori-
lies dnring the recent Intervention in
sCnbag claims I that nearly all OF the
avail blessupplyS o. mahogany Of that
island has been exhausted and that
what no u remains In any considerable
squantitl ties us Tar remote from trans.
- III
! portation cllitles. ,53 5.s
Tae number buyers Of mahogany
ingthis Scpuntry's hardwood market is
now xceedel only by those Of oak
maple poplar basewood. ash. birch.
chestnut and cypress: The principal
reason tortheSpopularity Of mahogany
iss that stheSimporters Of, the logs. and
liesmanltactllrers 90 lumber have nev.
Ser9 advanced Its prices beyond q mod.
estSproflti and It is relatively SO low
ttnat III nov makes little difference In.
price ether IN office building or
home u flnisaedln mahogany orHuar:
tersa Ena " lite oak Sg7 Il AZ 5 n y
An othersr eason for It's popularity is
sl,eeanset III Improves in tone, with age.
After much exp rlmentatlon car build.
ers finish aotlcallyEall Of their cars
I'M nahog an,y VI as $it:Swithstands salts.
ctorlly the \ seq ere $tasage, and also
holds sits finish The chief centers OF
snaaog INN oFtatlon and manure.
gture are Boston; New York, Lou,sy,l,e,
New Orleans, Chicago and .Indlanapo.
His N Il. Il /; n ,iyS
II The mahog is.the. wood Of q tree
otfSwle tenia; of}the natural family OF
ttCedrelaeeae, named by. Joaquin In
honor d y, Van swieten. The tree
49, one Eof the most majestic and beau.
stifnl with large spreading head and
Spinnate shining leaves. The trunk is
often forty feet3i length and six feet
sin diameter and Ifs divided into many
massive arms: i "
sIn the London Timber and Trade
Journal 8theeF appeared recently an In.
sterestlng historical reference to the
Snahog anyS trade In England. Accord
sing 10 this writer mahogany wood was
first imported by England in 1874. al.
y, HI I IN liJt ,IraJt,. 7, Id, oil