The charcoal makes a good fuel and is valuable for smelting iron, tin and copper, in the manufacture of gunpowder, as an insulating material, and as a clarifier in sugar refineries.
It is predicted that the future fuel for use in automobile engines will be obtained from wood waste.

Ethyl or "grain" alcohol can now be made from sawdust and other mill refuse.

One ton of dry Douglas fir or southern yellow pine will yield from twenty to twenty-five gallons of 95 per cent.alcohol.It is estimated that more than 300,000,000 gallons of alcohol could be made annually from wood now wasted at the mills.

This supply could be increased by the use of second-growth, inferior trees and other low-grade material..