Gunnison Valley News | 1919-11-28 | Page 5 | France Wants Lumber

' FRANCE WANTS LUMBER Purchase of American Timber Advocated Advo-cated by French Interests. The purchase of American lumber by France is advocated by certain French interests, in order to supply an estimated need of 14,715,000 board feet annually for several years, according to information secured by the bureau of markets of the United States department de-partment of agriculture. The species recommended are Douglas fir and Southern pine. At present the tariff and freight rates in France on American Amer-ican lumber are much, higher thanon lumber coming from European countries, coun-tries, and American measurements are different from those employed in Europe. Eu-rope. These difficulties are not considered con-sidered insurmountable, however, and an effort will probably be made to overcome them.