Show WOOD LASTS FOR CENTURIES oak buried in water or wet sand ha proved to be practically indestructible men employed in driving a new gal lery in a gold mine at charlotte plains in victoria australia hare made an discovery at a depth of feet below ground they have come upon pieces of timber perfectly pre served which have every appearance of having been sawed and shaped by the hand of man ahli timber lies in the bed of an ancient river now being worked tor gold and the timber Is oak now oak has the peculiar property of lasting for centuries when buried in water or wet sand oak piles have been taken out from under old wooden bridges constructed by the romans end found as sound as when they were put there nearly 2 yeara ago oak known as bog oak Is aund buried in irish peat bogs and is perfectly black intensely biard and very valuable just before the worlds war it was discovered that the bed of the river in russia tor a length of over Is simply full of magnificent old oak trees bedded in and the river Is shallow and broad and the oak can easily be raised smaller deposits are found in england there Is a pool in the river dart known from time immemorial s oak pool in the bottom of which are masses ota fine old oak the thing Is that there are no oak trees bear the spot at present |