Show QUALITY OP CYPRESS WOOD 1ho Tr 050 uoioionty Ste 1 II ieo lilt Mill Uo llnMklr The C press II I a noto louilr stow growIng irrr and Its toot li lUll sans lorliinily diirnblr myi an r > chatitc It li I capable of not only reciting the ac lion of the weather In a minnrtot dlfferfnt to all other wood but It In I wholly uninfluenced by linmcrilon In waler over a long period of yean It hi man eurlutii chemical properties which hold tie fibers and other eon lltuenU together 11I1 indIssolubly that the onllnnry change which breakdown break-down the UMUM of ordinary woodi are In rypren wholly mlttm InlonCfll are known where Iho wool I of the cypress ties endured for more than 1000 nesTs leanIng II still In n olid condition subject only to the attrition at-trition of the element inch ai the gradual wearing swap one ttt In expo ex-po d rock In the lacer valle of the MlMlMlppI a specIes of cypress li I ex ticmely abundant and In Sew Orlrnnn lately whllo HOTIIO men were excavating excavat-ing a trench a cypress stockade was found which WIM erected In 1730 by the Ircnch aa a protection agalnit the Indian In-dian Home of the plecM l meaiured Iwent one Inch In width with a thlckneni of about twelve Inchi and though It I had been bllrlJ 1 for in man ara It was In perfect condition when exlumud even the tool mark being mill clearly visible thy a series of experlmcntii extending over many yennlt line been found that cypress uncoil endure he varlnK con dltloiu uf greenhoute bettor than any other wood IrcenhouiMt txprned to nil the vIclMllude of henl moliture and changM of temperature shut the cypress timber lined In bolr cunitruc lion to Im I practical iui iingoil after more than llfty yrarj of use nail being uniclcnlly lough for the purpoie It li prolnblo It will come niurti general Intii use for building nmri n wood of great rnlitliiK power U required Min > oil doori nnde hip the earlr Hpanlardi In merlca are till I as arvlctub1o ni ever although expu ed to a roost trying climate |