English: Title: American forestry

Identifier: americanforestry221916amer Year: 1910-1923 (1910s) Authors: American Forestry Association Subjects: Forests and forestry Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Text Appearing Before Image: REDWOOD LUMBER AND ITS USES 331 it holds paint well, and shrinks and swells but little where the cars are exposed to rapidly varying extremes of heat and moisture. Redwood lumber used in freight cars has given 20 years service—an excellent record. On the Pacific Coast, tanks and vats are commonly constructed of redwood. The largest and best wooden water pipes are made of redwood, as are also aqueducts and flumes built to supply cities and irrigated lands with water. Eave troughs and gutters of redwood are used not only in houses on the Pacific Coast but in distant regions. Redwood shingles are one of this tree's best known products. In some years seven hundred million redwood shingles are produced. Redwood "shakes" are still on

Text Appearing After Image: THE REDWOOD EFFECT HERE IS MOST RESTFUL This is an unrelieved redwood at Fort Bragg, California, ii interior in the home of Otis Johnson I the heart of the redwood district. the market; these are boards used like clapboards for covering the sides and roofs of barns, sheds and other buildings, and are manufactured by splitting them from straight-gained, perfect logs. So easily does redwood split that boards 2 inches thick and a foot wide may be rived from a log 10 or 12 feet long. Such boards may have a surface so smooth that they may easily be mis- taken for sawed lumber. Redwood has many miscellaneous uses. It has served fairly well as a paving block for city streets. It is valuable for pattern making and for cigar and tobacco boxes, meeting all requirements for the latter purpose. It is used to a limited extent for fruit boxes, sign boards, musical instruments, coffins, and in the manufacture of vehicles. Redwood bark is of value also, being made into souvenirs that find a ready sale; because of its lightness it serves for fishing floats, cork carpet sub- stitutes, insulation, and many other purposes. The lum-

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