| Show WOOD LASTS FOR oak burled in water or wt wet sand no H proved to ile practically in men blen employed in driving a le lery ry in a cold gold mine at charlotte Charlet tt PP in to victoria australia Aua have did tt astonishing discovery at a depth feet ground they bits it upon PID a pieces et of timber perfectly apfl served which have every appears ap peart of having been awed sawed and sli spoil the hand of man this timber lies in the I 1 beu of 0 a ancient river 1 now being brlej tt fold gold and the timber li Is oak N oak has the peculiar property pro nerty of at 1111 I 1 ing for centuries when buried in wit or wet and sand oak pile piles ht have t b taken out from under old woodi bridges constructed by the bon and found a as sound as when thel chyb win put there nearly 2000 years 1 oak known as bog oak 1 is tw burled buried in irish peat bor bors and 1 Is i factly black intensely bard aca nd II 11 valuable just before the world worlds rt it was discovered that the bed 0 si river in Ilus rusl sla for a lp 1 of over miles Is I 1 imply simply ta magnificent old oak trees bedded sand the river Is to shallo eh allon and slid 1 and the oak can calf easily be raised smaller deposit deposits are found la 12 b land there is a pool ir tbt el dart known from time aa as oak pool in tho bottom of are mosses of fine old oak thing Is that there ther 0 are 10 0 trees near the spot at arese prese present at i |
