Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — Wood Like Iron. [ARTICLE]

Wood Like Iron.

Kew Bulletin. . . The jarrah wood is a species of eucalyptus native to Western Australia. 1 he main difficulties in connection with its use in the country are the cost of freight for such heavy timber from Aurtralia. and its intense hardness, which makes it difficult for ordinary English carpenter’s too s to work it. The tree which produces it grows generally to a height of 100 feet, arid sometimes 150 feet. It is found only in Western Austr ilia, extensing over the greater portion of the country, from Moore River to King George’s Sound, forming mainly the fore ts of these tracts. According to'Baron Mt eller, when selected f o n|hil y li c ilit es, cut while the sap is le st active and subsecqut ntly carefully dried, it proves impe.ivious to the boring of insects. Vessels constructed solely ot it have,-after twenty-five years constant service, remained perfectly sound, although not coppered. It has been tried at three placesln the Suez Canal, and after being down seven years the trial samples were taken up in order that a report on their conditions, might be sent to Paris. From certain corresnondenee hatwaen. Kaw and- ■ ?orne' Lond »n vestries it appears tha. jarrah has lately been used by the Chelsea Vestry for paying the King's Road, and by the Lambeth Vestry in the Westminister Bridge Roa l.