Show MAKING or MATCHES I ABOUT 3000000 A MINUTE USED THROUGHOUT WORLD Wood Supply for Enormous Demand a Burning SubjectHundreds of Factories Engaged In the Industry Washington The nations of the world strike 3000000 matches every mInute of the 24 hours Nearly one half of these are Ignited In this country coun-try Americans use up the enormous total of 700000000000 a year Hundreds of factories over the country coun-try are engaged In this Industry One on the Pacific coast covers 240 acres with 32 miles of railroad which supply sup-ply the match machines with 200000 feet of sugar pine and yellow pine logs a day For the manufacture of the match the best grade of wood Is necessary Sapwood knotty or cross grained timber tim-ber will not do The match manufacturers are as much concerned over the timber supply sup-ply question as any others It might be supposed that because matches are small the makers of them would utilize scraps and leftovers This is never the case The match machine takes the finest timber and what it reJects re-jects goes to the byproduct yard Among the byproducts turned out by tho large Pacific coast factory are 1 000 doors and 800 sashes daily As a matter of fact it would be impossible i im-possible to carry on tho match business busi-ness at all at present prices It the rejected re-jected lumber wore not worked Into something else L This country although it has Wit most abundant material and tho most machinery In the world does not manufacture enough matches to supply sup-ply the home market Thousands of dollars worth are annually Imported from Germany Austria France Sweden Swe-den and other countries whore they are made by cheaper labor and poorer machinery and usually from higher priced wood The imports are largely safety matches which can bo struck only on the box or other specially prepared pre-pared surface Nearly every manufacturing company com-pany has machinery made specially for Its use and covered by patents and it also employs processes dlscov ered or devised by KB own chemists and mechanics and kept secret to ore I |