Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 5 | Tests Planned for Alaskan Timber |

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Date	1922-08-06
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Tests Planned for Alaskan Timber
Type	article
Date	1922-08-06
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	5
OCR Text	Show TESTS PLANNED FOR ALASKAN TIMBER at M JUNEAt, Alaska. Atsj. I Tents of nine species of Alaskan timber will be made this fall and winter by experts of the Cntted States foreat service In Its laboratories-at Msdiann. W's, to a scor tain ths best commercial uses for lt- .five varieties of timber will be taken from Tongaaa national forest In Booth eastern Alaska. These will be Bit ka sprue, western hemlock, yellow snd i red cdar and Mack cot 1 on wood. From ; the Chugarh forest specimens of moun-1 moun-1 tain hemlock, whits apruee. birch aad black sprue will bs taken. It la tanned to ship a carload of material to the laboratories for ths tests which i will exhaustive.
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