HARDWOOD RECORD 



There are certainly enough men in this 

 branch of the trade to put through a good 

 flourishing organization and now is the time 

 to do it. 



Plow Handle Department. 



With regard to the oak department it 

 would seem that plow handle manufactur- 

 ers, having previously had an organization 

 and knowing the benefits of it, would be 

 anxious to get together again. One manu- 

 facturer in this particular line, who is a 

 member of the association, writes that he 

 has had considerable correspondence with a 

 number of them and that recently a few. 

 met and talked the question over. They 

 maj- decide to come into the association if 

 they may do so as a distinct branch, and it 

 is to be hoped that they will attend the 

 Louisville meeting and take some action in 

 this direction at that time. 



Manufacturers of Ash Handles. 



C. \V. Sp.'irv, \ ir,.-|,ivsi.l.-nt of the Ash 

 and Oak Dh immm. win.-, that the depart- 

 ment will natui.illy jurluilo only the manu- 

 facturers of uutiuished ash stock, inasmuch 

 as the finishers already have a distinct or- 

 ganization of their own along slightly dif- 

 ferent lines than that contemplated by the 

 general handle association. This branch of 

 the trade has long been in need of an asso- 

 ciation, and in fact it was a few people 

 engaged in making the unfinished product 

 who were the real originators of the present 

 Hickory Handle Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of America. However, the majority of 

 them are very difficult to get in, seeming to 

 think that such a proposition will hurt their 

 trade instead of helping it. How they can 



possibly have such an idea is a matter of 

 conjecture, and certainly not one of prece- 

 dent, as the history of all association work 

 would naturally lead to the opposite deduc- 

 tion. The officers sinrnrlv Impr tli:it manu- 

 facturers of unfinishi'.l :inIi IkhhIIi'S will 

 make this regular si'iiii ;iiiiiii;ii iiMMting an 

 occasion for getting together and evolving 

 some plan for the betterment of their 

 branch of the industry. 



The Smith-Kizer Manufacturing Company 

 of Eural Hall, N. C, reports that it will 

 close its plant about the last of May, and 

 probablj' not open up again until Septem- 

 ber. The company does only a small busi- 

 ness in the handle line but writes that it 

 will make an effort to get the manufactur- 

 ers in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama 

 interested in the work of the new associa- 

 tion for the benefit of all. 



"William Charlesworth Handle Company of 

 Fayetteville, Ark., write that they have run 

 their factory most of the winter and have 

 at present a well-assorted stock of handles 

 in a clean, dry warehouse. The factory is 

 not running now and will not to any ex- 

 tent until conditions change for the better. 

 Mr. Charlesworth does not believe that 

 trade will be very lively for the next month 

 or so, nor that low prices will get much 

 business. He feels that he cannot make 

 handles any cheaper than the present asso- 

 ciation quotations, and prefers to let his 

 factory stand idle rather than to . barely 

 break even, or run at an actual loss. How- 

 ever, he is optimistic and believes that han- 

 dles will sell readilj- and at good profit be- 

 fore long. 



Hardwood Record Mail 'Bag. 



will be made to answer queries pertaining to all 

 matters of interest to the b.irdwood trade, in 

 a succinct and intelligi?nt manner.] 



Wants Hickory. 



The Hardwood Eecord is in receipt of a 

 communication from a large and well-known 

 manufacturing house inquiring for a source 

 of supply for 2 V^ -inch firsts and seconds 

 hickory for which it is in the market. Any- 

 one wishing to be put into communication 

 with this correspondent will be furnished 

 the address on application. — Editok. 



BER Company. 



Anyone interested in the above inquiry will 

 be furnished the name of our correspondent 

 upon application to this office. — Editor. 



Amend Honorable, and a Correction. 



Phinceton, Ind., April 23. — Editor Hardwood 



Wants Crating Stock. 



Parkersburg, W. Va., April 24. — Editor 

 :ardwood Record : Can you supply us with a 



llEccfRD : We 



you intimate 



a lumberman, 



Be a Camel '.'' 



did not mean 



rine as a lumberi 



of the best there 



the stated number of feet of timber purchased 



in British Columbia. You have it 3,000,000 — 



we meant to say 300.000,000 feet. — A. B. 



XiCKEY & Son. 



notice in your issue o£ even date 

 ;ve cast a reflection on Perrine as 

 referring to bis poem "Who Would 

 In reply will say we certainly 

 to cast any reflections on Mr. Per- 



also want to correct 



A Famous Walnut Log, 



The mammoth walnut log represented in 

 this illustration was exhibited at the World's 

 Fair, held in Chicago in 1893. It is now 

 over fifteen years since this tree was cut, and 

 the walnuts left standing in the country are 

 but dwarfed and stunted trees in comparison; 



today it hardly seems possible that such a 

 tree ever grew. However, there are doubt- 

 less many lumbermen and others who saw this 

 log while it was on exhibition, and who will 

 be able to recognize it from the picture. The 

 log was 16 feet long, and 77 inches widest 



diameter at one end. The opposite diameter 

 was not so great by 6 inches, which made the 

 mean diameter of the log 74, and if it had 

 been hewn for export it would have made a 

 fair measurement of 75 inches from wane to 

 wane. 



There is no scale card or log book that 

 will give the contents of such a log, as the 

 diameters are never carried over 50 inches, 

 but Doyle 's formula for finding the contents 

 of logs in inch boards would make it as fol- 

 lows: Diam., 74 inches — 4 inches for slab=: 

 70 inches, divided by 4^17%, squared=: 

 3061.4x16, the length of the log=4,900 feet, 

 or the contents of the log. 



This is an exaggeration, and though carried 

 out by the figures and rule, is disproved by 

 practice. It is true that small logs, when 

 measured by Doyle-Scribner rule on an aver- 

 age gain in sawing, and the smaller the log, 

 the greater the gain; while on the other 

 hand, large logs, or those over 30 inches 

 in diameter, lose in sawing, and the larger, 

 the greater the loss. It is reasonable to say, 

 however, if this log had been sawed on a 

 thin band saw, it would have produced about 

 4,000 feet of inch boards. 



The task of securing a suitable log for 

 the World's Fair was undertaken by J. H. 

 Rudrow, one of the pioneer walnut men in 

 the west. The tree first selected for this 

 purpose stood on Mormon creek, in Bates 

 county, Missouri, on land belonging to J. 

 W. Harrelson, who lived at Belton, in Cass 

 county, Missouri, but the task was given up 

 by its promoters eventually. This tree, how- 

 ever, was a more perfect specimen than the 

 log represented in the picture, although it 

 would not have shown so large a diameter; 

 the trunk was taller and better proportioned, 

 being straight as an arrow, 42 feet to the 

 first large limb. The original idea was to 

 exhibit it in an upright position, as it stood 

 ill the forest, cutting off the top, or great 

 limbs sup])orting the crown, of course, but 

 leaving the long stubs of the limbs, branch- 

 ing out from the trunk. The tree was 

 grubbed down, the side or spur roots being 

 uncovered and cut off at a distance of six 

 or eight feet on all sides from the body or 

 base of the tree, the idea being that these 

 would answer for braces, in holding it safely 

 in an upright position, without the use of 

 unsightly guys, or stays from the top, and 

 at the same time add to the attractiveness 

 and novelty of the exhibit. But these in- 

 creased the weight of the log and made it 

 unwieldy, and much more difficult to handle, 

 and notwithstanding the fact that two trac- 

 tion engines, several teams, and a set of 

 house trucks were installed in this undertak- 

 ing, it proved a failure. The project was 

 so expensive that it was abandoned after 

 dragging the huge log for over a mile at an 

 expense of $150. The roots and prongs or 

 stubs of the great Umbs were then cut off 

 close to the body of the tree, which was 

 sawed into four logs, hauled to Adrian, Mo., 

 and hewn and shipped for export timber. 

 In spite of failure at first ilr. Eudrow was 



