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a thoroughly live proposition tlie club is. The 

 arrangement of the club rooms is particularly 

 well adapted to entertainments of this sort, a 

 temporary stage being erected at one end of the 

 dining room, which stage was equipped with ail 

 the necessary appurtenances. Four or five 

 features were provided by professional talent 

 secured through the committee's efforts. A 

 pleasant feature of the entertainment was the 

 absence of anything distasteful in the efforts of 

 the entertainers, which is not alwa.vs the case 

 at such functions. Light refreshments were 

 served in connection with the show, and the 

 members were provided with means of making a 

 considerable quantity of smolie. 



A hearty good feeling seemed to prevail and 

 the programme went off without a hitch of any 

 kind. The efforts of the long famous -'Bill" 

 Eager met with the usual warm reception. Wal- 

 lace Kimball also caused considerable merriment 

 by his imitation of animals. 



Bebuilding Montvale Lumber Company's 

 Plant 



Work has been commenced on the reconstruc- 

 tion of the sawmill of the Montvale Lumber Com- 

 pany, an allied concern of the R. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company, of Baltimore, at Fontana, Swain 

 county, N. C. the idea being to enlarge the 

 capacity of the plant. Though erected on the 

 old site, the mill, when finished, will be vir- 

 tually new, with concrete foundations, concrete 

 and sheet iron boiler house, the improvement 

 various poplars, sueh as aspen. Balm of Gilead, 

 being of a more permanent character than the 

 great majority of such plants. The chief idea in 

 making the improvement was to augment the 

 production, the demand for hardwoods having 

 been so good this year Ms to render the enlarge- 

 ment necessary. Machinery of the latest im- 

 proved, type will be installed, the plant being 

 what is called an eight-inch Clark band, with an 

 output of about 50,000 feet per day. The work 

 of construction is under the personal direction 

 of G. L. Wood, general manager of the company, 

 who has recently returned from an extended trip 

 to western North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, 

 Tennessee and other states, studying sawmill con- 

 ditions and other trade matters. The journey 

 was attended with more than ordinary discom- 

 fort as Mr. Wood had the misfortune to fall 

 down a steep bank in the mountains some weeks 

 ago and badly wrench his left arm. R. E'. Wood, 

 president of the company, left for Fontana this 

 week. The Messrs. Wood report that all of their 

 company's mills are cutting more lumber than 

 at any previous time this year and that the out- 

 look is most encouraging. 



Posts of Scrub Timber 



A circular recently issued by the New York 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse, gives advice 

 to the farmers of that state which is valuable 

 to the farmers of most other states. They 

 are urged to make use of cheap and inferior 

 woods for fence posts, first having treated 

 them witli creosote to hinder decay. The 

 species which are pointed out particularly are 

 soft maple, basswood, willow, and elm. Large 

 amounts of these woods grow in scattered 

 stands, or in waste places, and are not gen- 

 erally put to any good use, because it does 

 not pay to bring them together. Often they 

 are too small for any use except posts. As 

 is well Itnown, these woods last only a short 

 time if set in the ground in their natural con- 

 dition. They are among species which decay 

 most quickly. Ordinarily, no one would make 

 posts of them, because tliey last so short a 

 time that their use is unprofitable. By means 

 of a cheap treating plant which a farmer can 

 equip in his barnyard, posts may be treated 

 at a cost of from four to six dollar.s a hun- 

 dred. The treatment makes them last two or 

 three times as long as they will serve in their 

 natural state. Many other woods of the same 



class are found on the farms, along creeks, 

 and in waste places in this country. They will 

 respond to the treatment which preserves 

 them. Among others are Cottonwood and tlie 

 various poplars, such as aspen. Balm of Gilead. 

 Carolina poplar and Lombardy poplar; buck- 

 eye, sycamore and pine. 



A Progressive Company 



The Henry C. Patterson Company, reorgan- 

 ized some months ago with Frank R. Whiting, 

 president, Chapin L. Barr, vice-president, and 

 Albert W. Wasey, secretary and treasurer, has 

 made considerable improvements in its yard. It 

 has also changed the character of its business ; 

 instead of North Carolina and yellow pine, 

 hardwoods and white pine are handled. How- 

 ever, the compan.v will continue to ship the first 

 named southern pine in carload lots. It carries 

 2,000,000 feet of hardwood and Wisconsin white 

 pine in stock, and has a large dry shed with 

 twenty-four dust proof bins for the protection 

 of a quantity of hardwood flooring and several 

 thousand feet of lumber. Jlr. Wasey. who is 

 known as one of the young hustlers in eastern 

 lumber circles, is a hard man to catch at his 

 office, as he is always on the job. He sa.ys 

 the company has had very little trouble dis- 

 posing of dry hardwoods, and its white pine 

 stock is moving nearly as fast. 



A REMARKABLY LARGE OAK LOG 



A Big Oak Tree 



The loggers of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany of Charleston. Miss., in this region of big 

 oak, recently encountered a remarkably large 

 and fine specimen of the cow oak variety, which 

 was felled and put into log lengths and trans- 

 ported to the company's big mill, A picture 

 of the second cut of this tree is shown here- 

 with. The log was seven feet in diameter. 

 Manager Burke sa,vs that this sized saw-log 

 does not particularly appeal to him as a source 

 of money-making. The log haul-up took the log 

 up to the head of the slide without difficulty, 

 and then the first thing tliat happened was 

 that the end of the sawmill had to be knocked 

 out to get tlie log onto the log deck. After 

 the nigger threw the log onto the carriage, it 

 was found that there was not room enough be- 

 tween the wheels of a nine-foot band mill to 

 permit the passage of the log between them, so 

 it had to be returned to the deck, and with 

 wedges and beetles split in halt before it could 

 be handled. Mr. Burke says it would have 

 been economy to have left the tree in the woods 

 as a monument to what northern Mississippi 

 lands will produce in the way of oak, rather 

 than to ha VI' accomplished its removal to the 

 mill. 



Foreign Trade Opportunities 



A business man in the LTnited Kingdom, 

 listed as No. 961t under Foreign Trade Oppor- 

 tunities in the Daily Consular and Trade Re- 

 ports published at 'Washington, D. C, is in 

 the market for hardwood, tool-handle stock 

 and cooperage stock. He wants to be placed 

 in touch with manufacturers and exporters 

 of hardwood logs and lumber, tool handle 

 stock and cooperage stock, and is in immediate 

 need of 2 to 4-inch. 10 to 16-foot ash plank, 

 and 5 to 12-inch white oak wagon plank. 



A company in the United Kingdom wants to 

 be placed in communication with exporters of 

 pitch pine timbers and lumber, ash, oak and 

 red gum lumber and logs. It is also desirous 

 of investigating Montana larch and Pacific 

 coast white and sugar pine lumber. The en- 

 ciuiry is No. 9616. 



Under No. 9617 is a firm which wants to 

 get in communication . with manufacturers of 

 oak barrel shooks for use by chemical manu- 

 facturers. These shooks must be 1 by 2Vi 

 tf' 5 inches by 44 inches long. Each shook 

 must contain enough stock to produce a barrel 

 with a circumference of 36 inches at the head 

 and 44 inches at the bulge. The staves must 

 be shaped and must be of wiiite oak or any 

 other close grained oak. The same firrh 

 wants 5 by 12 white oak wagon plank, and 2 

 tc 4-inch and 10 to 16-foot ash plank. 



A Change In Arkansas 



The Leavitt Land and Lumber Company, Der- 

 mott. Ark., has appointed W. L. Briscoe secretary 

 and manager in charge of its big band mill 

 ..porations at that place. 



Mr. Briscoe has been connected for some time 

 with the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company, having 

 been in its employ for the last eighteen years. 

 He was assistant superintendent of the Blythe- 

 ville. Ark., plant and subsequently manager of 

 the Arkansas City and Greenville. Miss., opera- 

 tions. Mr. Briscoe left the employ of the 

 Paepcke-Leicht company some time ago. with the 

 idea of manufacturing a quantity of stumpage 

 owned by his father. Negotiations were opened 

 between him and the Leavitt Land and Lumber 

 Company upon the completion of these opera- 

 tions. 



Mr. Briscoe is not only an able and widely 

 known lumberman, but is an ardent supporter 

 of the Iloo-Hoo. 



September Inspection of the National 

 Association 



The statement of hardwood inspection by the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, issued 

 from the offices of Secretary F. F. Ifish, shows 

 that the inspection bureau of the association in- 

 spected 20.63EI.8.'!>0 feet during September, 1912, 

 This establishes a new record and is an increase 

 of 2..-i!)8.298 over August, 1912, the previous high 

 month. 



Ten new applications for membership to the 

 association have been received since the last 

 report. This brings the total of new members 

 admitted since the convention of June 7 to 

 forty-four. 



The report deplored the practice which ap- 

 parently is somewhat common among non 

 members, to secure national inspection through 

 members, thus avoiding for themselves payment 

 of membership dues. The members were urged 

 to decline such requests. 



nie report noted the resignations of inspectors 

 W. H. Long of Pittsburgh, and C. H. Maddox of 

 Savannah, Ga, N. W. Rice of 918 West North 

 avenue, Pittsburgh, was appointed to take charge 

 in place of Mr. Long. Inspector .T. L. Benson, 

 formerly at Alexandria. La., has been transferred 

 to New Orleans as assistant to C. E. McSmith, 

 whose address is 5252 Constantino street. New 

 Orleans. 



Creditors 'Victors in Cincinnati Suit 

 United States District Judge Hollister recently 

 returned a decision in favor of the creditors of 



