HARDWOOD RECORD 



Some Valuable Foreign Woods, 



More About Ohia. 



The Hardwood Record recently published 

 an article on ohia woou, the new tie timber, 

 under its series covering foreign timuers — 



KHONT END OF MILL, SHOWING ROUGH 

 CHAUACTER OF LOGS. 



contributed by H. C. Haner, who is at present 

 engaged in building a mill and getting out 

 the logs at Pahoa, Hawaii. The trees pre- 

 sent a very odd sight in the forest, owing to 

 their peculiar root formation, and the method 

 of felling them by jerking down with ropes 

 and pulleys is a peculiar one. Mr. Haner 

 did not secure pictures of the standing tim- 

 ber, but has just forwarded a new bunch of 

 photographs, herewith reproduced, taken in 

 the mill yard and vicinity, with the follow- 

 ing information and explanation: 



ARTICLE V. 



'Some idea of the general shape and char- 

 acter of the ohia logs may be obtained from 

 the view which shows the starting of the log 

 yard at the mill, the misshapen log in the 

 foreground showing the effect of the growth 

 of the ea-ea vine, mention of which has pre- 

 viously been made. This tree, though seal- 

 ing over 300 feet, Avill not saw into a single 

 jiieee of 6x8 for ties, but will have to be cut 

 into inch strips, owing to its twisted shape. 

 The 8-foot log on top of the pile will square 

 into four ties and make more lumber than 

 the other log sixteen feet long. 



"Another cut shows two of the logs :ii 

 closer range; the outer conformation can li. 

 noted, from which it will be seen that the 

 [iroduct of the mill in inch strips will be large 

 in proportion to the number of 6x8 S-foot ties 

 actually cut. This log, like many others, i-^ 

 ^tar-shaped and will square up only two \ir 

 111 the body of the log. 



"In the view looking toward the camp n 

 lie seen the general run of the short leii_ 

 Most of these logs were cut into Si 

 lengths for hewing, but owing to near ■,i\' 

 proach of sawing, it w'as decided to bring 

 them to the mill. We now have quite a large 

 supply of them piled up in the log yard, 

 where they are drawn up into a heap with 

 a donkey engine and wire rope. The log- 

 dump shown is the beginning of a skidway 

 which will be about 500 feet long. 



"The logging crew is composed of Ha- 

 waiians, Japs, Koreans, Portuguese and other 

 nationalities. It was thought at one time 

 that it would be possible to secure a crew of 

 Japs for the millwork, but their propensity 

 to do everything backward would make them a 

 dangerous quantity in anything but a double 

 cutting band mill, for they would be sure to 

 try to cut with the back of the saw. One 

 of them took some measurements for belt- 

 ing lately, and he did it by commencing at 

 the end of the steel tape and measuring baik 

 toward the unit figure. 



"In addition to such timber resources as this 

 island has of its own, the Pacific contributes 

 many derelicts from the coast, some from 

 big rafts that have broken up at sea, and the 

 logs have found their way to many shores. 

 One of the cuts shows a round log on the east- 

 ern i>oint of the island which is about ten feet 

 above moan tide now, having been thrown into 

 its present position by one of the storms that 

 occasionally, but not often, come this way. 

 Tlie log is five feet in diameter at the small 

 rii<l and thirty feet long. It is sound and 

 iiiiws no ill effects of its long journey, but is 

 : !iached white from exposure to the salt 

 pray. A curious feature of the surf on this 

 island is that on all sides and at all times 

 it rolls toward the shore; it would seem as 

 if one side of the island would show smooth 

 water for part of the shore line, but it does 

 not. 



"Nature seems to have made amends for her 

 cruel treatment of the land in covering it 



with streaming tiows of lava, for out of the 

 black mass of bare rock grow the cocoauut 

 and the palm, the mango and the alligator 

 pear, with wild fruits and trees, shrubs and 



vines, all of which have edible fruits, or 

 flowers. While the fishing is hazardous at 

 times, the sea yields an abundance, and the 

 wild hogs furnieh meat in plenty for those 

 who care to hunt them on the sides of Mauna 

 Kea, or the wild turkey on Mauna Loa. At 

 such times as the volcano at Kilauea is active 

 it can be seen from the mill, and while lum- 

 bering may have great drawbacks here— as it 

 usually docs in a foreign, undeveloped country 

 — the panoramic view from this spot, when 

 the air is clear, is the memory of a lifetime." 



ANDFISER FROM A FOREIGN SHORE. 



