Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1915 — RED GUM FOR GUN STOCKS [ARTICLE]

RED GUM FOR GUN STOCKS

British Agents Seek Estimate of Available Supply in the South. Memphis, Tenn. —Owing to the scarcity of Circassian walnut from Russia since the outbreak of the European war, the British government is making tests of quarter-sawed red gum for gun stocks. The gun lumber manufacturers’ association of Memphis has been asked by English agents to estimate the total available supply of dry two inch, two and a quarter inch and two and a half Inch first and second quartersawed red gum in the southern field. In the event the test proves satisfactory the greater part of the available supply will be bought outright by the British government Memphis manufacturers of red gum lumber are preparing to give the prospective order immediate attention.