The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Big Shipment of Lumber For
 Egypt Passes Through Here

Nile country, Africa and other sections that grow hardwood was searched for the most appropriate Kind.
 The shipment aroused much interest yesterday when it passed through Bir- mingham. In explaining the unusual car go, Lee Clary. general agent for the Louisville and Nashville, gave out this statement:
 "A record-breaking shipment of red gum lumber passed through Birmingham tcday en route from the largest hardwood mill in the world, that of the Lamb Fish Lumber company, Charleston, Miss. to Pensacola, Fla, where it will be loaded on a specially chartered steamer for Egypt. This shipment consists of 541 ,0oo feet loaded in 30 40-fout box cars and was brought to Birmingham and moves from here to Pensacola via the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
 This is a demonstration of the poten- tial wealth of the Mississippi Delta. as this class of hardwood grows exclusively in the southern section of the Mississippi valley Red gum is at 1ast taking its rightfu place among the useful and beau tiful hardwoods of the world. where it belongs because of it's fine texture. en- during quality, freedom from warp and stain, natural beauty and the ease with WHICH II lenuS 1lSelI 10 pol1Sn.
 About 40 manufacturers of red gum recently formed an organization for the exhibiting of this lumber. They have opened headquarters in the new Trust building in Memphis, and are demonstrat- ine the fact that it pays to advertise' Like all big undertakings, the further ancc of this movement does not end with promoting the interests of gum manu- eacturers alone, but benefits every acre | of tin1hpf land in fbp MiSsiSSinpi I, ci,, south of St. Louis.
 Tt is significant and not at all sur prising that this. the largest shipment of red gum ever made, is destined to Egypt. That land that has taken the initiative from the dawn of civilization American lumber manufacturers are de- lighted to note that she still has the habit of building on q large scale and n placing this order for red gum, she has exercised discriminating taste, cul- ttNated for so many centuries. Egypt knows how to build. Before you assert that this country ever groped in dark ress. look at the face of the Sphinx which was old when history began, and which bears the impress of an Intelligent people. who built temples that mock at time and smile at our puny efforts at architecture, made glass 5000 years before England learned the art, and employed mathematics in architecture, that we have only recently discovered
 Here we are reminded of Solomon's $ temple, and are impressed with the wis dom and aesthetic taste he exercised in selecting for interior finish wood from the forests of Lebanon, cedar that very much resembles gum in color and tex ture.
 Egypt has something yet to teach the world. She knows how to go to mar ket, as is evidenced by calling on the irv,i f<r l,, her next door neighbor and family con rection.' India, abounds in mahogany, teak. ebony( rosewood, and just up the river Nile lie the great forests of Cen tral Africa, and nearby the hardwood district of Guinea.
 This train was the center of interest m the various cities through which i. Passed and will do much to bring the at : tention of the people of this section to the growing popularity of this wood"