Show WOOD CONSUMPTION There arc are men still alive who remember when the first matches were made There is no man alive today today today to to- day who unless he is posted has any idea of the matchmaking we we refer to the lucifer match that match that thatis is going on in the tho world They frighten National Forester Pinchot half to death because whole of timber aro are denuded annually just for making matches Three billion matches are arc lighted every minute of the day and night of the civilized world Tho The United States State uses or nearly annually for every cery man woman and child There are match factories in tho the United States and the appalling statement is made that one mill in California California Cali Cali- fornia forma consumes feet of logs board measure every nine hours and of the left over oyer wood turns tunis out 1000 doors sashes and blinds each working day dart The same account tells us that the best wood for making spools is wl white te birch and in New Engl England nd where spool cutting is a great industry birch i is becoming becoming becoming be be- coming very ery scarce Last year Maine l New Hampshire Hamp shire and Vermont made spools and consumed consumed con con- more than cords of white whito birch logs in inthe inthe inthe the state of Maine faine alone Again the lead pencil makers have made red cedar 50 so scarce that the wood is becoming extinct and it is actually worth more than black walnut Last year ear the companies sent agents throughout the country searching for cedar logs which had been used as fence posts Last year lead pencils pencils pencils pen pen- were made and to make them required cubic feet of timber Again gain last year pine wo wood d was cut into veneer sui sufficient to cover coyer square miles of surface |