Show TURPENTINE T TAKEN KEN FROM CO CORTEZ TREES V VANCOUVER r R B. B c C. C 1 Ranchers 1 Ion on Cortez ortez Island bland have h v discovered and are developing a new nw Ind that may run I Into millions of dollars dollan It Is the he extraction extrac extrac- I I. I lion tion o of turpentine from froin Douglas fir of which abo about t acres are commercially commercially commer commer- I available I No Douglas firs smaller than ten Inches In n diameter will be tapped Mature trees frees yield forty-eight forty gallons of sap at one tapPing tap- tap Ping n bout two-thirds two of a gallon of high grade turpentine Is obtained from one gal Ion lon of sap and ased t tie the e residue Is 13 commercially marketable The average yield per acre thus far Is 13 eight barrels of turpentine The discovery is 19 especially important to the paint and varnish Industry The Douglas fir classed as one of the Uie coast type of trees grows in vast forests on Vancouver and other Islands II and along the Inlets and valleys of the southern mainland main main- land of this tills province |