Show TRES TREE MINES A DUBIOUS CURIOUS INDUSTRY OP SOUTHERN ASIA LOGS I FOR fon one of the most curious industries tn in tho the world la Is the business buil nesi of mining for conglis planks which is carried on in upper tonquin Tou qula a portion of the french posea passed la southeastern asia in a certain district la in this provi once there exists a aront underground depositor deposit of logs which A aich were wera probably tha trunks ot of trees engulfed by an earthquake or somo other convulsion of nature at a comparatively recent period tile trees anop the youths youtha companion ura are a species credos of pion known to tho the natives and alto aleo to some extent to european coln coin merco merce as nom houi hou the wood la Is almost imperishable and has tho the quality either through its ita mature or as ai the result of its sou journ underground of resisting decay from damp this quality makes it par particularly tiou valuable for tho the manufacture of cot cof tins bos and for this purpose it is largely exported to europe the trees are ara often a yard in diameter r they aro are burled buried in sandy earth at a dep depin I 1 b ostrom two to eight yards and aro are lug dug up by native labor as demand to la mado made for i them hem in many othe places in the world troea trees aro arc found vilder ground in a very fair state of preservation in vermont certain tali men meadows dows which now are cultivated every your are known to lo be ba vill preat great masses ol of logs oss which were brought cown anti and deposit aLl in great jams in floods within the recollection of living men and left where they were in the course conrao of time the interstices between the logs filled up with oarth earth and all were covered over evenly witti with moro more earth and vegetable growth whenever any of those thoo burled buried logs are dug up they are found fouad to ho be in a surprisingly rood good state ot of preservation but the business of mining them has ha not yet become an aa industry |