HARDWOOD RECORD 



Wants Old Cypress Price Lists. 



KissrjiMKE, Fla., September 13. — Editor 

 Hardwood Kecokd ; I am desirous of obtaining 

 price lists covering tlie value of cypress lumber 

 during the years 1901 and 1903. Wish you might 

 be able to dig up this information for me. 



• & Co. 



If some of our readers can unearth some 

 cypress price lists of the years named they 

 will confer a great favor by forwarding them 

 to this office. — Kbitor. 



Look Out for a Swindler! 

 The editor has received a communication 

 from Jas. H. Baird, scrivenoter of the Con- 

 catenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, recounting the 

 misdoings of one C. G. Hascall, alias Haskell, 

 alias L. H. Haskins, and also having several 

 other aliases. A St. I.ouis lumber corpora- 

 tion recently gave this man employment and 

 advanced him .$4.5 expense money. He left 

 town and immediately commenced to m.-dce 

 drafts on the house of from $2.5 to $30 at 

 •>.ry place ho stopped, applying usually to 



members of Hoo-Hoo, and representing him- 

 self as a member of the order. He was last 

 heard of in Arkansas. Mr. Baird is very 

 anxious to have the criminal apprehended 

 and thinks his real name is Matthias, ilr. 

 Baird says in conclusion that he wishes to 

 caution all lumbermen and Hoo-Hoo not to 

 extend financial aid to any man unknown to 

 them who claims to be a member of the order 

 ^Tithout wiring his office at Nashville, which 

 will stand the cost. — Editoi;. 



A False Report. 

 Philadelphia, Sept. 22. — Editor IIauuwood 

 Kecord: We wish to inform you that the arti- 

 cle in the Southern Lumberman, on page 46, 

 issued September 19, 1908, in reference to our 

 company is absolutely false and without founda- 

 tion. IlEXRv C. Patterson Company, 



C. Conde Freas. Treasurer. 

 The report referred to alleges that the com- 

 pany had been thrown into bankruptcy, which 

 published statement might work much injury 

 to this veteran and substantial liouse. 



— tKditor. 



NeWs Miscellany. 



Magnificent New Boat. 



James D. I^cey. of the well-known tlinber- 

 land house of J. D. Lacey & Co., Old Colony 

 building, reached Chicago a few days ago 

 accompanied by his wife and party of friends, 

 in his handsome new naphtha yacht, the 

 Tonopah. and since that time his Chicago 

 friends have been the recipients of several 

 little outings on Lake Michigan on this beau- 

 tiful pleasure craft. 



Mr. Lacey is a member of the Chicago 

 Yacht Club and the Tonopah becomes the 



aiidsomest yacht to rty its colors. The boat 

 ninety feet in length with fourteen-foot 



Forced Draft for the SawmiU. 

 Twenty years ago forced draft appliances for 

 sawmills were exceedingly crude and had objec- 

 tions that went a long way toward neutralizing 

 their advantages. The blast was turned uncon- 

 lined into a sealed ash pit. Selecting the path 

 of least resistance, the major portion of it 

 escaped Into the furnace, where there was the 

 least fuel, and where the fuel lay thickly the 

 blast did not penetrate it at all. Thus there was 

 most air where there was least fuel, and least 

 air where there was most fuel — a condition ex- 

 actly the reverse of what was desirable. Again, 

 r.s the ash pit had to be sealed, the blower had 



beam, and was built at South Boston by 

 Lawley & Sons. It has twin screws, with 

 two naphtha engines of 125-horsepower each, 

 built by James Craig. The craft has yellow 

 pine planking and white pine decks, and Is 

 Hnished throughout In mahogany. Two yawls, 

 one naphtha propelled, hanging at its davits, 

 are built of juniper wltfi mahogany trim- 

 mings. The yacht is most magnlflcently fin- 

 ished and furnished and contains a hand- 

 some cabin with the owner's private cabin 

 adjoining, and dining-room that will .seat ten 

 persons, adjoining which is a completely 

 'fiuipped kitchen. Forward arc quarters for 



■ crew. The yacht has a speed of sixteen 



' '-Ightecn milep. 



to do all of the work, there being no other way 

 for the air to find its way In. Owing to the 

 closing of the draft doors and the Irregular 

 heating, due to irregular distribution of the fuel 

 and air, as above, the grate bars burned out 

 very quickly. The result was that it was a 

 question whether, everything considered, forced 

 draft was a benellt or a nuisance. 



Today all is changed. The Gordon Ho'low 

 Blast Grate gives perfect control over the blast 

 There Is no necessity for sealing the ash pit. 

 The draft doors may be closed or left open, as 

 may be desired ; ihe blower does only a frac- 

 tion of the work ; most of the air enters the fur- 

 nace as the result oC natural draft : the blast 

 merely supplemenis llie draft and gives the fire- 



man perfect control over the fire, enabling him 

 to regulate it according to the weather, the kind 

 of fuel, its condition, the demand for steam, etc. 

 It makes it possible to make a much hotter fire, 

 to generate much more steam, to burn cheap 

 fuel. It is to the sawmill what the bellows are 

 to the blacksmith or the blower to the founder. 

 As the bars are hollow and are always full of 

 fresh air, they keep cool and are far more dura- 

 ble than the best draft bar ever devised. 



This excellent grate is manufactured by the 

 Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company of Green- 

 ville, Mich. 



Car Stake and Equipment Matter. 



The meeting of the associations interested in 

 the car stake and equipment complaint which 

 was called to meet on September 18 at St. Louis 

 has been postponed until Tuesday, October 13. 

 1008, at 10 :30 a. m., in the Auditorium Annex. 

 This change in dale and place was made by the 

 committee to accommodate the convenience of a 

 large number who expect to be present at this 

 meeting. The matters to be considered are as 

 stated in previous calls, viz. : 



First — The amount of fee which it is proper 

 and reasonable to pay Attorney Walter W. Ross, 

 up to date, and in this connection It is only 

 proper to state that Mr. Ross has agreed to 

 abide by the decision arrived at at this meet 

 ing, providing there is a representative attend- 

 ance of the associations interested. 



Second — Shall this matter drop or shall pro- 

 ceedings be taken to get an opinion and decision 

 from the sumpreme court of the United States 

 upon the question at Issue? 



We trust that this change will meet with your 

 approval and that if you have not already named 

 delegates that you will be able to do so, and thai 

 they will be present at this meeting. The hour 

 and place of meeting will be sent to those inter- 

 ested as soon as decided upon. 



Progressive Lumbermen Practice Economy. 



R. S. Kellogg, assistant forester In the Unilcii 

 Slates Forest Service, In speaking about the 

 progress of forestry in this country, says that 

 all lumbermen are not wasteful, but that Just 

 the contrary Is true In many cases and the num- 

 ber of men in the lumber industry awakening to 

 the necessity of conserving the country's forest 

 resources is increasing each day. Progressive 

 lumbermen realize that they must adopt con- 

 servative methods or live to watch the slow 

 death of their great Industry. Nevertheless vast 

 stretches of territory have been made barren in 

 the past through the careless and almost crimi- 

 nal methods of the old-time lumberman. Prac- 

 lically every section of the country bears scars 

 where he skinned the land and left what re- 

 mained open to the ravages of lire. The waste 

 in the woods was terrific ; the mill waste almost 

 ;is .serious. In many cases the percentage of n 

 lice that reached the markets in the form of 

 hirnber was considerably less than half. 



.Ml this, however, was more the fault of con- 

 li it ions than of individual lumbermen. While 

 <imc of them were without doubt unnecessarily 

 ' isteful, the majority operated as economically 

 - they were able to and still make a profit. 

 limber was cheap, and at many times only the 

 "St grades could be sold. Things have oeen 

 clianglng during the last few years, however, for 

 the timber supply is dwindling and prices of 

 forest products arc rising to a point that per- 

 mits a fuller utilization of timber. 



Waste has been reduced because conditions 

 now make it profitable to use much of the stuff 

 that was formerly left In woods. Improved saw- 

 mill machinery Is also playing an important part 

 In the matter of the closer utilUatlon of the 

 tree. Better work In the woods, reduction of mill 

 waste Jind protection of timber holdings from 

 fire are going a long way towards conserving 

 our forest resources. 



Still not all the old time practices have ceased, 

 nor arc all who arc cutting our forests practic- 

 ing forestry, but their number Is Increasing, for 

 wideawake men are learning that conservative 



