Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — Wood Strong, Though Light. [ARTICLE]

Wood Strong, Though Light.

Tests of balso wood by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed a strength fully one-half as great as spruce. Yet this Equadorlan wood weighs only 7.3 pounds per cubic foot, while cork weighs 13.7 pounds. z The wood is stated to be practically pure cellulose, with no lignification, the strength being due to Its structure of large barrel-shaped cellar , -