HARDWOOD RECORD 



board apparatus were supplied by the Kel- 

 logg Switchboard & Supply Company of 

 Chicago, and the half-tones of physicians' 

 electrical apparatus by the Mcintosh Battery 

 & Optical Company of Chicago. 



Charles Klaubek. 



L'Anguille Lumber Company. 



On tbc night ot Febraai-y 5 last the sawn 

 plant of the L'Anguille Lumber Company 

 Marianna. Ark., built in 1889, was burned to 

 the giound. The old mill had a capacity of 

 40,000 feet ot hardwood per day of ten hours' 

 i-un. Two days after the fire the work of 

 clearing away the debris was begun, the man- 

 agement of the company having decided to begin 

 at once the erection of a much larger and more 

 modern mill, with foundation of the most sub- 

 stantial kind, entire new machinery of the Filer 

 & Stowel make, and all up-to-date appliances. 



On May 18, Just eighty-five working days from 

 the time" the old mill burned, the new mill 

 began operations, sawing 10,000 feet of logs 

 without a stop in four and one-half hours. The 

 new mill has an easy capacity of 50,000 feet per 

 day. It is almost fireproof, having concrete 

 ground floors, all the timber being of red gum, 

 thoroughly saturated with a fireproof roofing 

 preparation. The engine and boiler rooms are 

 models of cleanliness and safety. 



The company, under the management of the 



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in barber shops and massage parlors— were 

 of quartered oak in the familiar golden 

 finish, though there is some call for birch 

 and maliogany as well. Built-up stock is 

 unusual. In small batteries oak, quarter- 

 sawed or plain, and in weathered, golden, or 

 other finishes, shares the field with black wal- 

 nut and mahogany. Leather is also much 

 used on the cases of small batteries. 



X-ray apparatus, for which the demand 

 Is said to be perceptibly diminishing, often 

 involves about as much cabinet work as goes 

 into the making of a large family bookcase 

 or wardrobe. In the establishment of An- 

 derson, Xordcn & Co. were noted several big 

 cabinets six or seven feet high and five or 

 six feet wide, quite elaborately constructed. 

 Lion's-foot uprights kept the cabinet several 

 inches oft the floor. Above these were two 

 tiers of drawers with curved fronts. The big 

 glass case shuwing the chief apparatus was 

 ornamented by heavy side pillars with Corin- 

 thian capitals and surmounted by a heavily 

 carved moulding. This cabinet was of fine 

 quarter-sawed oak, highly polished. The 

 handsome receptacles of which this was an 

 example are of built-up veneer construction 

 on a base of poplar. Cheaper cabinets were 

 made out of solid oak of inferior quality. 



An account of the use of wood in connec- 

 tion with electrical apparatus would not be 

 complete without some mention of rubber, 

 which is a product of certain hardwood trees 

 and shrubs. Hard rubber is used for all 

 telephone receivers and transmitters, in the 

 jack-frames of switchboards, and in a thou- 

 sand and one accessories of electro-medical 

 apparatus, because of its remarkable prop- 

 erties as a non-conductor. 



The accompanying cuts of modern switch- 



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and others who were brought up in the busmess. 

 is one of the most successful hardwood and box 

 shook manufacturers in the country, not merely 

 from a financial standpoint, but in many other 

 ways, setting an example in economical and close 

 production. In this plant the log is run down 

 to the smallest pieces and manufactured into 

 something useful. 



This plant has furnished employment to many 

 people in Marianna, and during the twenty years 

 of its operation has contributed largely to the 

 healthy and steady growth of the town, which 

 is now classed among the very best business 

 cities in the state ot Arkansas. The L'Anguille 

 Lumber Company deserves abundant prosperity. 



WiU Make Timber Keports. 



An important step in the general movement 

 to bring many of the rich stands of timber in 

 the South under a scientific plan of forest man- 

 agement is the offer made by the school of for- 

 estry of the University of Georgia at Athens, 

 Ga., to furnish timber owners with experts who 

 will examine and report upon any of the forests 

 in the state. 



The object of the offer is to collect informa- 

 tion in regard to the forest resources of the 

 state, to spread a knowledge of forestry, and to 

 improve forest conditions. The forest school 

 will furnish the experts free, and the only ex- 

 pense to be borne by the forest owner will be 

 paid for traveling and subsistence of the expert 

 while making the examination. In cases where 

 several owners of the same locality apply, the 

 expenses will be prorated. 



When applications for examination of timber 

 are made, the owners have been asked to give 

 their names and postofflce addresses, location of 

 tract, nvi-a ..f tia.t. ,\ 



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of forest as shown 

 rowing on the land, the 

 whether mature, original 

 I her the land has been 

 the wishes of the owner 

 land. 



