The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-27
,offsciai CITY. state and cosnty Newspaper
PHILIPPINES 4 TIMBER HOPE

timber supplies OF the nation become more anu
more depleted and reforessaton iaes hopelessy be-
hind the embarrassing demand for lumber what Is
this country going to do about it?
For one thing it viii have substitutes. More
homes viii have built Of Hebron brick and concrete
around here. In places. perhaps the old house whose
walls constructed Of taped soil Will become SUD-
sttue type The vice president of the Great Western
Sugar company large summer palace Of this mate
rial and form of structure California and scientist
at Georgetown university has large mansion built OF
the same material opposite Washington.
Both structures are substantial and comfortable
houses The idea the Washington house was derived
from knowledge of similar buildings hundreds OF years
old and as hard rock. in England. The California
house the outcome Of the sugar companys expert
mentation in building adobe cottages for the Mexican
sugar beet labor in Colorado and Montana The Mon
tana gumbo made durable sun-dried building blocks the
size Of an ordinary loaf Of bread Coated with liquid
cement the wall surface Of the buildings became
impervious to rain and snow and the blocks have be-
come so hard they drill like stone.
But wood has SO many uses than merely form
ing the walls OF homes that the lumber problem re-
mains after greater OF brick and cement and
pounded earth weighed In the scales Of SUBJ
stitution America will have to find supplies In some
way it is so fabricasing it has III this mate
rial. wood.
There is no article of commerce into which the cost
of wood is not figured somewhere. From baby-car-
riages cons there is the constant call for wood The
radio automobile and aeropane increased the de-
n,and for lumber The basis OF nearly every industry
is wood
Our population IS increasing about 100000 year
North America uses about one-haf Of all the timber
consumed in the world The railroads OF the United
States about 100000 ties every year-about
5000 to a mile About 100000 trees cut annually
for telegraph and telephone lines We use 500 1000
fence posts every year Forest fires nearly 100000
a day. Many million feet of pulpwood used every
by the newspaper industry About two-thirds OF
the population wood for fuel
Cubs has turned much Of its former forest land
to sugar-cane have Santo Domingo and Porto Rico
The latter is in the grip Of very real timber
famine and gets the greater part of her timber from
the United States.
The American Tree association has just sounded
other alarm the steady decline Of timber in the
United States. country that has developed rapidly
this has must look sharply to its forest the
Tree association warns Since using-or de-
stroying by fre-our forests about four times fast
er than renewing them foresters long have been
concerned where the timber supplies Of the future
are to Be obtained Predicting timber famine unless
reforestation program is adopted the Tree associa
ton wants to know what is TO be done in the mean
time about the situation
How about the forests in the Philippines somebody
rises to remark We 10 ooo square miles Of Won
derfu territory, all rich timber IN the Philippines
and yet every and then somebody chatters abou.
disos,ng Of the archipelago giving e self govern
ment. which at this time would be hardly more than
the opportunity loose fac,onal battle royal
Retaining the islands is worth while for their timber
resources alone it would seem,