San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-20
SOUTHERN PINE
FOUND USEFUL
IN HEAVY WORK
Wherever There Is Sturdy
Construction, These
Timbers Valuale.
FOR FINER JOBS, ALSO
Variety of Uses Makes This
Lumber in Constant De-
mand Everywhere.
FOR FINER JOBS, ALSO

Heavy lOl
trestles trusses, beams, sleepers, Joists.
columns, rafters, sills-wherever great
strength and endurance are essential.
1T has a multitude of uses IN
manufacture, the important factory
uses enumerated in kellogg's "Aum-
Der and Its Uses" including more
than $50 factory-made articles.
The manufacture of boxes and
crates consumes 10 per cent OF the
total annual lumber output OF all
woods in the United States, and
southern pine provides the material
for one-fourth of all such products.
In railway car construction, the an
nual normal consumption of lumber
Is 1,260,O00,000 board feet-and
southern pine supplies "a per cent
of it.
In the manufacture of agricultural
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, harrows, cultiva-
tors. drills, planters, threshing ma
chimes. rakes, etc.-3O0,OO0,OO0 feet
of lumber is used annually, and over
so per cent of it is southern pine.
In normal times 200.000,000 feet of
lumber is required every year in ship
and boat building, and 81 per cent o.
that is southern pine.
OF wood paving materials and con-
duits Sc per cent are southern pine.
Used for Heavy Work.
In machine construction-steam
shovels, hoists, cranes, well drills.
dredges, crushers, presses-in which
the wood used most possess strength,
toughness and durability. southern
pine supplies more than SO per cent
of the wood used.
In the building of freight and pas
senger elevators, which consumes TO-
100000 feet Of lumber each year,
southern pine supplies &c per cent.
The foregoing-in which the figures
quoted are from government statis-
tisc. and absolutely correct-are only
a few of the many ways in which
southern pine proves its marvellous
adaptability. In the government bull
letin. uses of Commercial Woods of
the United States" it is said of south
ern pine: "ln large part of the coun-
try it is so universally used that there
are few places of Importance it does
not FILL"
The AllPurpose Wood-Besides its
uses for heavy construction and man.
ufacture, the service qualities of
southern pine, combined with its low
cost, availability and easy working
nature. make it the ideal all-purpose
wood for the farmer and amateur me-
chanic in the home. For farm building
and repairs it is readily procurable
everywhere in standard sizes and
grades, and it is perfectly adapted to
thu construction of barns, silos, gran
aries, garages, cribs. ice houses, feed
racks, troughs, poultry houses, sheds,
plank walks, gates, fences, well tops
and implement repairs-all the many
building tasks, large and small, that
the farmer finds need to turn his
hand to.
Public Knows Uses.
1t needs no introduction to the con-
Stunning public as a framing and con-
struction material. and its merit as a
wood for finer uses is well estab-
lished. 1t is practically the only wood
used extensively in framework. siding,
flooring, sheathing, sashes and doors,
rails, spindles, newell posts and every
variety Of dressed or turned exterior
and interior finish.
y-Products-Aside from its adapt
ability in construction and manu-
facture, southern pine surpasses all
other woods in the variety and use
fulness OF the by-products recovered
from it. OF all the excelsior produced
necessitating the consumption of 100.-
100000 board feet of lumber annual
ly, 10 per cent is southern pine. From
the sap OF the wood comes turpentine,
resin. tar and pitch, their production
is gigantic industry in itself. From
the wood is distilled pine oil. a prod
uct that has a wide range of useful
ness and promises to supersede lin
seed oil IN the manufacture of paints.
The toughest wrapping paper pro-
duced Is manufactured from southern
pine wood pulp. One Of the chief
products of the distillation Of the
good is pyrOligneous acid.
Even Needles Valuable.
From the pine needles, distilled
green, an oil OF balsamic odor is OBJ
tanned, closely resembling the turpen
tine extracted from the wood of thu
tree. The pine needles. boiled in 3
strong solution of alkali, yield pins
wool, which is woven into fabrics OF
used in upholstery. One Of the ma
terials used in the manufacture of Ii
lac perfume is terpineol, made from
southern pine turpentine and thai
same turpentine is employed by man
ufacturers in making synthetic cam
phOr.
Southern pine makes an ideal in
terror finish wood because of its strik
ing grain and beautiful texture, whicl
make il particularly suited TO use il
fine joinery and high varnish finish
Southern pine does not "fuzz mn
or show knife marks" in the planin
mill process, therefore it requires les
labor and expensive hand scraping 4
secure smooth. satin-like surfaces.
1t is bright and attractive in color
Emu It's general beauty and utility ar
surpassed by no other wood. not eve
the most expensive hardwoods. A mir
imum of material and labor is re
quired to obtain the finest effects, an
it holds its finish better than mos
woods. 1t lends itself readily to an
artistic treatment or design and ma
be given any standard wood finisl
taking stains. varnishes, hard oil an
paint perfectly.
High Quality for Finishing.
The southern pine designed for us
is interior finish is lumber of un
formly high quality, and gives max
mum service at exceptionally mode
ate cost. Enormous quantities. parti
ularly Of the shortleaf pine, are no
used everywhere in America for Il
finest homes and public buildings, az
this material has so firmly esta
lished itself as the equal of the be
bardwOods for interiors that the que
ton Of quality no longer is a eonsi'
GRAFTON. Southern pine has yarit