Show mine of varicolored oak A kisslan timber dealer has dis covered a valuable mine of oak it Is la a river of south russia in layers three or four feet deep scattered over square miles and its most stalk ing feature is its variety of colors supposed to be due to the variegated soil of the river bottom not fewer than twelve shades of pink blue yel low and brown have been noted each log having its own uniform shade the logs taken out have ranged from forty to feet in length and from fifteen to twenty inches in diameter and it Is estimated that more than averaging seventy feet re main |