THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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WALNUT, 

 OAK, 

 ASH, 



POPLAR. 



BOYNE CITY 

 LUMBER CO. 



BOYNE CITY, MICH. 



Michigan Rocl( Maple and other 

 Michigan Hardwoods. 



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in most sections of the country, and the 

 pricqs of tracts of timber land are very 

 high. These conditions, liowever, do not 

 apply to the territory in Southeast Missouri 

 and Northeast Arkansas traversed by the 

 lines of the 



White and red oak, hickory, walnut, 

 poplar and ash of the very best quality 

 and of heavy growth can be secured, and 

 sawmills, stave and handle plants and 

 other wtiod working industries will find 

 that section offers superior advantages as 

 a location. 



For maps, pamphlets and full informa- 

 tion address 



M. SCHULTER, 



INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER, 

 Commercial Bldg , St. Louis, Mo. 



wood mills in E.ist Texa.s. There is a 

 very small one about GO miles north oC 

 Beaumont and this is the only one in 

 operation in the entire section of East 

 Texas to the writer's knowledge. 



There is no reason why there should not 

 be at least half a dozen of these in opera- 

 tion within a radius of SO miles of Be;iu- 

 mont. Eventually one half of the product 

 of these mills could and would be used in 

 Beaumont. The factories of the class 

 named cannot be established until they 

 see that they can get their supply of raw 

 n;aterial; once this is assured the fac- 

 tories will come. 



If we assume for the moment that there 

 is already a market for all the lumber 

 which these mills could furnish— and we 

 will prove this before dismissing the sub- 

 ject; the main factor in considering the 

 establishment of hardwood mills, is the 

 question of timber supply. The maiu 

 hardwood that would be used is oak, and 

 for the time being our remarks will be 

 limited to this one commodity. There 

 are numerous bodies of fine white oak 

 timber on the G. B. & K. C. railroad, to 

 the north of Beaumont, that can be se- 

 cured, ranging from two to five thousand 

 acres, that will cut from three to five 

 thousand feet. These can be bought in 

 large bodies for $12.00 per acre, and in 

 smaller bodies at much less. The average 

 man in this section, being used only to 

 yellow pine sawmilling, applies the same 

 tests to determine the feasibility of a 

 hardwood jn-oposition that he would to 

 pine, and the result is the tests do not pan 

 out. The conditions are not the same, 

 and the two propositions should not be 

 judged the same way. Five thousand 

 acres of pine would not be much to start 

 a pine saw mill on, but it would be a fine 

 body on which to begin operations with a 

 hardwood mill. In fact, operations can be 

 successful begun on 2,000 acres, for the 

 following reason: Two thousand acres 

 would afford say eight million feet as a 

 reserve fund of timber on which to begin 

 and to act as a background or foundation 

 for the installation of the plant. This 

 would guarantee the plant to run about 

 two years under ordinary conditions, as- 

 suming they cut 20,000 feet daily, which 

 is a fair size for a hardwood mill. But 

 there is another thing to consider in log- 

 ging this mill. There are hundreds of 

 small tracts of hardwood timber owned by 

 farmers and small holders who would be 

 glad to cut it down into merchantable logs 

 and load it on the cars for an average 

 price of ?G to $7 per thousand feet. These 

 parties would be glad to take advantage 

 of such an opportunity to clear their land 

 at a profit. The freight would practically 

 be nothing. The G. B. & K. C. to-day haul 

 pine logs for the Kirby Lumber Company, 

 at a nominal rate of if3..50 or $4 per ear, 

 and the same rate would have to bo made 

 on the hardwood logs and it could bo made 

 to apply for a distance of 50 miles on 



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 your lumber, write 



M. BOEDER, 



i 440 Roscoe St., CHICAGO. 



Empire Lumber Co., 



CHICAGO. 



WiiMTPn ( CHtiRRV, OAK, CYPRESS, 

 wAwicu ^ GEORGIA PINE 



Or anything you have for sale in hardwoods. 



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Oak, Ash, 

 Cypress 

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