Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1898 — OAK WOOD GETTING SCARCE. [ARTICLE]

OAK WOOD GETTING SCARCE.

The Danger of Using Up the Visible Supply. No one who is at all familiar with existing conditions in the lumber trade can fail to note that there is already considerable complaint of the dearth of desirable oak. Both In quartered and plain stock fairly good lots of dry’ oak are notably’ scarce. The leading jobbers have had their buyers out for months picking up anything good they could find, and the result is that a very large proportion of the oak on sticks has already passed into second hands and is held by the present owners for distribution to consumers. Mill men in the south are cutting it all the time, but they do not have to wait until it is dry, or even partly dry, before selling. If they’ choose to do so, they can usually negotiate for it in advance of the sawing, and on terms that a few years ago would have been regarded as extremely liberal. Oak is, perhaps, the ‘most readily salable of any saw mill product, which fact indicates that it is now r , and is believed likely to be hereafter, relatively a scarce article. While htere is no occasion far alarm as to the present adequacy of the oak supply, it is a question if the time has not come when serious consideration should be given to the possibility, not to say probability, that in the not distant future oak may become one of the scarce woods. —St. Louis Lumberman. .- , \ St. Jacobs Oil cures Rheumatism. St. Jacobs Oil “ Neuralgia. St. Jacobs Oil “ Lumbago. St. Jacobs Oil “ Sciatica. St. Jacobs Oil “ Sprains. St. Jacobs Oil “ Bruises. St. Jacobs Oil “ Sorenost St. Jacobs Oil “ Stiffness. St. Jacobs Oil ** Backache. St. Jacobs Oil “ Muscular Ache*.