Then we got into the great counting room. where they had teakwood floors. I was not familiar with them. nor was my friend from Kansas . It turned out that it was wood which was gotten in the jungles of India and carried out by elephants and sawed by coolie labor in India. It is splendid to walk on. but It expands so they have to put a little segment of cork in each joint so that the cork would shrink and spread as it contracts or expands. and when my friend STIZONG walked in and looked at it he said. "Where in the world did you get this floor? It looks to me like my dairybarn floor down in Kansas." And it does. and yet they went all the way to India to get the most expensive wood in the world. brought by elephants out of the jungle and worked up by the people of India. who get about 15 cents a day. and brought over here. when the whole Northwest is full of hardwood of the finest kind.