Lehi Sun | 1922-08-24 | Page 4 | Demand for Cascara Bark

fi DEMAND FOR CASCARA BARK kHI' Industry Was Once a Baby, but It jftllK Has Developed Oreatly In EnHF Washington State. WmX A half million dollars was tho value Eftf of this season's cascara bark, liar- E I vested by Oroya Harbor (Wash.) folk. B I It Is tho peeled lcuther-llke skin of HI I tho barberry treo, stripped by settlers Kjf I and city dwellers who spend six Km I weeks each spring in tho swampy for- I . C8ls "onr Hoqulam. t Six years ago this burk gathorlng KjB industry was a babe, tho fow who at- H tempted to sell tho poclod bark got Efflf tlnR irom 0 to 4 cents por pound for rlt It not knowing Just how to proporly tffl ' . euro and pack It. Jff f Then cnniu tho drug fnmlno. The fl i wholcsalo prlco which has gradually Wjn i.. been rising Is now IB conts per pound $1 and skillful strlppors mako $10 to $10 f ' per day, With n kulfo an Incision Btt '" mado near tho ground and u piece KM , f burk once loowncd thcro may bo , pulled from the treo upward for ten WM to lift con feet. Taking but a part of KB ' tho burk does not Injuro tho treo. mir'