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Show Strength of Yate. Official tests of tho many valuable hard woods native to western Australia Aus-tralia havo made known the extraordinary extraor-dinary properties of yate, believed to be the strongest of all known woods. Its average tensile strength Is 24,000 pounds to the square Inch, equaling that of good cast Iron. Many specimens speci-mens are, however much stronger, and ono was teste' to 17 tons to the square Inch, wi...... Is equal to the tensile strength of wrought Iron. The suwn timber of yate Is probably the strongest In the world. Tho tree grows to a maximum height of 100 feet nnd has sometimes a diameter of two and n half or even three feet. |