Show WOOD LASTS FOR CENTURIES Oak Burled Buried in Water 0 or Wet Sand Hit Has Hal Proved to Be Practically In r destructible Men employed In driving a new gal I lery Jery in a gold mine at Charlotte Plains Plain in Victoria Australia have made sa an astonishing discovery At a depth of oft feet below ground they have come coma 1 upon pieces of timber perfectly pr preserved preserved pre pre- served which have every appearance of having been sawed and shaped b bythe by the hand of ot man This Timis timber er lies In the bed of an u ancient river now being worked for for gold old and the timber Is oak Now t toak S Soak oak has the peculiar property of lasting last last- ing lag for centuries when burled buried in ID water or wet sand Oak plies piles have been v taken out from under old wooden bridges constructed by the RomanS Roman and found as sound as when they were wert put there n nearly arly 2000 years ago Oak known as bog oak is found burled buried In Irish peat bogs and Is perfectly per black Intensely hard and very verr valuable Just before the worlds world's war war it was discovered that the bed of th the river In Russia for a length J r of over oyer miles Is la simply full of or magnificent ent old oak trees bedded ia in sand The river Is shallow and broad r r. rand and the oak can easily be raised Smaller deposits are found In to Ear EnI- Eng Eng- England land Th There re Is a pool In the river rivet Dart known from time Immemorial ti as Oak pool in the bottom of which Jare J- J are masses mass's of fine old oak The i strange thing Is that there are no oak ok 1 trees near the spot at present J t. t |