THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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Nashville, Tenn.; C. M. Carrier & Smii. 

 Sardis. Miss.; Norman Lumber Compaii.v. 

 Louisville. Ky.; E. L. Davis & Co., Loni~- 

 ville. Ky.: Parkersburs Mill Company, 

 Parkersbur.i;, W. \a.: Kentucky Lumii(\'- 

 and >'eneer Ooniiiany, Ilobbins, Ky.; Frid- 

 man Lumljer Company. New Richmond, 

 O.: W. J, Cude, Kiuimins, Tenu.; Little 

 River Luml>er Company. Townseud. 

 Tenn,; Suwauee Spoke and Lumber Com- 

 pany. Kuttawa. Ky.: Biggs-Van Sant 

 Lumber Company. Huntington, W. Va.: 

 J. D. Hughes Lumber Company, High 

 Bridge, Ky. 



The president's report was an outline 

 of business conditions, present and pros- 

 pective, and it was in view of these con- 

 ditions, which were of such encouraging 

 nature, that the meeting was called, and 

 he suggested that it would be well to con- 

 sider and publish a new list of values, 

 which would better reflect existing condi- 

 tions. 



The secretary's rrport was a presenta- 

 tion of the work accomplished in the as- 

 sociation since the annual meeting in Jan- 

 uary. In point of membership the asso- 

 ciation has increased from 14,'5^ to 213, and 

 in- production from 1,100,000,000 feet to 

 1,210.000,000 feet annually. 



The treasurer's report showed receipts 

 of $11,149.20 and expenditures of ?10,- 

 994.03. 



The valuation committees presented 

 their reports, which were in the nature of 

 a new list of prices, and in which there 

 was a general increase all along the line. 

 These prices will not become effective 

 until the loth inst.. and it was voted to 

 withhold them from publication until that 

 date. 



revenue can be continuously obtained from 

 the forest. The revenue derivable is ex- 

 pected to thereafter increase from year to 

 your, with the waning of the American 

 virgin forest and the coinciding increase 

 of timber prices. 



"Artificial planting is not resorted to at 

 Biltmore excepting, however, the case of 

 some 2,000 acres of abandoned fields lying 

 in close proximity to town and afforested 

 by planting pine, locust, cherry, walnut, 

 etc. 



"The forest is thoroughly protected from 

 fire with the help of some seventy farm 

 tenants living inside the ti-act, by a net- 

 work of roads and ti-ails— altogether over 

 1,000 miles— acting as fire lanes, by the 

 interspersion of sfrips of farm land along 

 the water courses, and of strips of forest 

 pastures along the mountain tops." 



FINANCIAIi RESULTS AT BILTMORE. 



Before the American 'Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, at their midsummer meeting at 

 Minneapolis, August 25 and 26, Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck, forester of the Vanderbilt estate 

 at Biltmore, N. C, made an interesting 

 address, which, in effect, was as follows: 



"Forestry means, for the private owner, 

 the financial development of forestal in- 

 vestments. Where timber has little value 

 and is not expected to have value in the 

 future, forestry, as an enterprise, offers 

 no inducement to the capitalist. 



"By improving the means of transporta- 

 tion, the present value of the treeS and 

 the prospective value of the saplings grow- 

 ing near Biltmore on l.'!0,000 acres of wood- 

 land has been greatly enhanced. 



"The original investments have been re- 

 duced, on the one hand, by the removal 

 of hyper-mature trees, and have been in- 

 creased, on the other hand, by building 

 roads, dams and chutes, by erecting saw 

 mills, by clearing the forest where it 

 stands on agricultural soil, by creating 

 farms, pastures, villages, industries, and 

 so on. 



"Where the forest is cut on absolute 

 forest soil unfit for any production otlier 

 than trees, the rule is adhered to: 'No fell- 

 ings witliout a definite aim at reforesta- 

 tion by nature's own means.' 



"Obviously, the proper gauging of the 

 investments made in forestry requires a 

 long number of year.s. Another five years 

 will elapse before the investments made 

 at Biltmore have reached a figure and an 

 equUibrium at which a steady surplus 



YELI.O"W PINE FtTRNITXTRE. 



The Lumber Trade Journal of New Or- 

 leans returns to the advocacy of yellow 

 pine as a suitable wood for use in furni- 

 ture making, and urges that the manufac- 

 turers of yellow pine lumber join in some 

 effort to show to the thousands who will 

 be in attendance upon the St. Louis ex- 

 position that attractive furniture can be 

 made from the wood which is so abundart 

 in the South. The editor of the Lumber 

 Trade Journal, who spent some time in 

 I'aris during the exposition which was 

 held in that city, as well as Charles B. 

 Spratt, seem to have been impressed with 

 specimens of yellow pine furniture which 

 were found in some of the apartments oc- 

 cupied in Paris. It will be remembered 

 that following the discussion of the adapt- 

 ability of yellow pine for certain kinds of 

 furniture, that two of the leading manu- 

 facturers of Grand Rapids brought out 

 suits made of this wood. These suits did 

 not meet with favor, and there is a good 

 deal of a question whether any of the 

 manufacturers of yeUow pine went so far 

 as to make purchases of the pieces which 

 were shown, for their own homes. When 

 this matter was under discussion before, 

 the Journal pointed out that while yellow 

 pine might be a good wood for furniture, 

 that there were other woods which are 

 better, and that despite good design and 

 first-class workmanship, that the Impres- 

 sion sure to be conveyed by the use of 

 pine, is that the furniture is cheap. Be- 

 sides this the tendency has for some time 

 been away from the light woods rather 

 than toward them. But this mere opinion 

 should not prevent the southern manufac- 

 turers of yellow pine from exploiting the 

 adaptability of this wood if they so see 

 fit. They might furnish the House of 

 Hoo-Hoo, which is to be built by the lum- 

 bernien, with articles made of this wood. 

 They might induce manufacturers of first- 

 class furniture to get out for exhibition 

 in the section which will be devoted to 

 furniture, a variety of articles made from 

 this wood. But if anything along these 

 lines is done, nothing short of the best, 

 both in design and workmanship, should be 

 offered, A comparatively small amount of 

 money, together with a good supply of 



clear, yellow pine lumber, would undoubt- 

 edly secure the manufacture of really up- 

 to-date furniture after modern designs. 

 After this much has been done it will still 

 have to be determined whether or not 

 furniture can be profitably made from yel- 

 low pine. Wlith oak, which is still the 

 staple furniture wood, steadily soaring in 

 price, the furniture manufacturers will be 

 only too glad to welcome any wood which 

 is both plenty and cheap, and which will 

 "meet with favor at the hands of The pub- 

 lic. We are still inclined to believe that 

 there are other woods which are to be 

 found in abundance in the South which 

 can be turned to advantage in furniture 

 making, and that the millmen of that sec- 

 tion better keep the yellow pine in the 

 channels in which it is being distributed, 

 and turn to account some of the stumpage 

 they are now passing over, and make 

 something of the waste they are now send- 

 ing to the burners. The cypress manu- 

 facturers are getting rid of some of their 

 short stuff for drawer bottoms and back- 

 ings, and in the construction of case goods. 

 There is a cry for a substitute for poplar 

 and basswood which the oracles tell us Is 

 to be found in tupelo gum, which is worth 

 just about what it will cost to manufac- 

 ture it. Yellow pine may not be used for 

 fronts, bed ends and all that, but it may 

 have uses in other directions.— The Furni- 

 ture Journal. 



The lumber market continues practically 

 the same, and is not very encouragin? 

 from a boxmaker's standpoint. This is 

 the time of the year when the trade ought 

 to be seeing its way clear to accumulating 

 a good stock of material, but in many 

 localities it seems to take all efforts to 

 keep stock coming in as fast as it is used 

 up. One feature of the market is the 

 moving of green stock. The stock is so 

 scarce that in many cases there is no 

 effort made to dry it before shipping, but 

 ii is rushed to the box factory as fast 

 as teams and railroad facilities will per- 

 mit. This emphasizes the existence of 

 a desire on the part of the box men to 

 accumulate stock at their yards, and that ■ 

 they are recognizing the fact that green 

 stock on the yard is better than it would 

 be piled in the woods or at the mills. The 

 scramble for lumber is bringing tupelo 

 gum to the front, and it has been a sub- 

 ject of quite a lot of comment during the 

 past two months, so much so. that it 

 practically constitutes a feature of the 

 lumber developments during the last 

 month. This wood will probably enter the 

 package trade along with the sap of red 

 gum without any distinction between the 

 two, so far as prices or preference is con- 

 cerned.— Barrel and Box. 



Harris Bros, of Columbia, Tenn.. will 

 erect a mill at Shady Grove, Hickman 

 County, Tenn., where they own a very 

 considerable timber tract. 



