Show we are becoming less dependent upon wood fo for r home construction vy by HOWARD F WEISS research enquirer I 1 each year we are becoming less and less dependent upon wood for the construction of our homes both the per capita and the total consumption of lumber are rapidly declining and for the more modern types of buildings wood lias has been almost completely supplanted by other materials in the vast majority of cases wood is used as a building material not because it is the best material available but because it is the cheapest the extent to which it is grown and the price to which it goes will d depend epe nd upon the ability of wood to compete with other products in the worlds commerce while it is true that our uc of wood as a construction material is on the decline nevertheless our consumption of it for other purposes is on oil the increase this is particularly true of the manufacture of pulp and paper and allied products here the consumption is iner increasing easing 0 every ever year and will undoubtedly continue to do so |