Out o[ the Woods

Bv Jim Stevens

areas in which iron ore, gold, magnesium and other metallic minerals rvhich are in the early stages of development. There are also great deposits of non-metallic minerals, such as lime, silica, and pumice which have scarcely been touched. This great storehouse of natural resources rvith such a close brotherhood of influence and background u'ith the United States should be a source of mutual benefit for centuries to come, and as a closing statement it is qrrite significant that the Philippine Republic is the only Christian nation in the Far East. \{r. De Las Alas was also a guest of the Philippine Mahoganl' A'ssociation at a luncheon meeting at the Jonathan Club on October 29 when he talked to the members and their guests. President Walter Scrim presided at the meeting.

industrial wood supply.

But the existing wood-using industries of the n'orld have been mainly built to employ softwoods, and vast areas of the untapped forests are tropical hardwoods. Hundreds of millions of the softwood forests, too, are in the Soviet Ijnion and its satellite countries.

Canada and Us

Up theie our Canadian cousins have 37 per cent of their cotlntry in forests and down here 33 per cent of the nation's land area i.s classified as forest land.

The contrast is 'ivider in terms of forest acres per person. In Canada it is 67.2 acres for each man, woman and child, rvhile the per capita .share of the U.S.A. woodlands is but 4.61 acres.

Each country has roughly 500,000,000 acres of "accessible" tir.nber suited for commercial uses.

Billions of Canadian and U. S. dollars are already deeply invested in mills, roads, machinery and all kindred items for getting out logs and making lumber, paper, plylvood and other forest products.

Additional billior-rs of dollars are invested in North American industries and businesses such as newspaper publishing and building constrttction, and each investment depends on contintting material supplies from forest land.

WorldView...

The surr-eys of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Ur-rited Nations shorv that out of all the world's forests sone 2,862,000,000 acres can be made to yield an

Today only Canada is a net exporter of r,r'ood-shipping out more cubic feet than the Canadians themsel'u'es consume. South America, Africa, Asia, Oceania are nornr net irnporters of rvood.

But research in wood chemisfry and in forest engineering is regularly opening new wavs and provicling nerv means for man to master the problems of grou'ing trees and of producing shelter, reading matter, clothing and food from the u'ood of trees.

Private Citizens Are Big Timber Owners

Tlrere are over 4,225,000 individual private os'ners of commercial forest lands in the United States, ou'ning aprrroximatelv 345 million acres.

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\\rhat are believed to be the largest glued laminated beams el,er constructed are six used in an Illinois school gymnasium, made in Portland, Oregon, each measuring 11 incl-res x 5 feet x 97 feet.