Cypress Lumber Becoming Popular

Northern and eastern markets will in a few years be almost entirely dependent upon Bouthern woods for fine lumber. Northern capital is pushing into Kentucky and TennesseO, and is also dotting Florida and the Carolinas with milis in the lumber regions, for the reasou that many of the northern fields have become exhausted so f ar as certain classes of fine lumber are concerned. One of the coming woods that will be univeijally used for fine trimmings in a few years by northern builders is the cypress. Cypress shingles have been popularly known in the north for many years on account of their durability. But only in the past two or three years has the value of cypress for building purposes been recognized in the north. The southern states have been utilizing this wood for building material, and have found it to be one of the most durable woods as yet known. It is similar in figure and grain to Gorgia pine, and is susceptible of a very fine polish, and, therefore, is used principally for wainscoting and inside furnishings- It is a soft wood, and when dry is of about the same texture as white pine. While a general product of all the southern states, where it grows in the lowlands. yet the best cypress comes from Florida and Louisiana. This is true, not that the wood growing in those states is any better, but for the reason that the miilmen there know how to work it into smcother and better lumber than is manufactured elsewhere. Cypress lumber bas never commanded the price in northern markets that it should coinmand, having never exceeded $30 per 1,000 f eet.-