Manufacturing with Petrified Wood
The petrified forests near Holbrook, Arizona, have been purchased by a company. They have commenced the shipment and manufacture of the petrifactions into tablets, tiles, and various ornamental articles in building and finishing. In this connection, the Prescott Miner has the following: "Governor Tritle informs us that while in San Francisco he inspected an establishment recently started for the cutting and polishing of petrified wood taken from the wonderful forest of petrification existing along the line of the Atlantic and Pacific in this Territory. "The parties engaged in this work state that the petrified wood is rapidly driving California onyx from the market as a material for mantels, etc., as it is susceptible of a much finer polish, and is also more permanent and lasting than that of the onyx. Several companies have already been formed for the purpose of getting possession of portions of the forest by pre-emption," thus promising to further push the manufacture.—Sel.