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HARDWOOD RECORD 



SECTION OP BARK OF LODGEPOLE 

 PINE 



and has an important place 

 to fill in the western coun- 

 try's development. Its 

 greatest drawback is its ex- 

 ceedingly slow growth. A 

 liimdred years is a long 

 time to wait for trees of 

 |iole size. Two crops of 

 liiblolly saw-logs can be 

 harvested in that time. 

 llowever,the land on which 

 the lodgepole grows is fit 

 only for timber, and the 

 acreage is so vast that 

 there is enough to grow 

 .supplies, even with the 

 \vait of a century or two 

 for harvest. The stand has 

 increased enormously with- 

 in historic time, the same 



as loblolly, and for a simi- 

 lar reason. Men cleared 

 land in the East, and lob- 

 lolly took possession; fires 

 destroyed western forests 

 of other species and lodge- 

 pole seized and held the 

 burned tracts. 



If tires cease among the 

 western mountains, as will 

 probably be the case under 

 more efficient methods of 

 patrol, and with stricter 

 enforcement of laws against 

 starting fires, the spread of 

 lodgejiole pine will come to 

 a standstill, and existing 

 forests will grow old with- 

 out much extension of their 

 borders. 



CONE AND 



NEEDLES OF 

 PINE 



LODGEPOLE 



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l>Jew System of Quarter -Sawing 



When quarter-sawing oak was first introduced, so as to show the 

 remarkably beautiful flake and figure of this king of American hard- 

 woods, the waste was so considerable on small logs that it was not 

 regarded profitable to quarter-saw logs less than twenty-eight in- 

 ches and upwards in diameter. Many attempts have since been 

 made to quarter-saw small oak logs, but manufacturers generally 



oak production on a large scale, to solve the problem of producing 

 quarter-sawed oak lumber in a highly satisfactory way from not 

 only its large timber, but from its smaller logs as well. 



A previous article, with colored illustrations in Hardwood Rec- 

 ord, exhibited the splendid figure that the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company was attaining in its quarter-sawed oak production, but 



Sim: \\\:\\ meusiion horizontal 



SAWING LOG 



conceded that the loss in quarter-sawing small logs more than ate 

 up the difference in price that could be obtained from plain sawed 

 stock. 



With the growing scarcity of oak timber, and the increasing 

 demand and higher prices obtainable for quarter-sawed oak strips, 

 numerous efforts have been made to utilize the smaller and equally 

 high-class logs into a quarter-sawed product made on a profitable 

 basis. It has remained for the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 

 in Coal Grove, 0., which this year for the first time entered into 



BAND RESAW ADAPTABLE FOR 

 SECTIONS 



no specific reference has hitherto been made to the methods of 

 manufacture by which this desideratum was obtained. 



The Yellow Pojilar Lumber Company saws its large logs in regu- 

 lation fashion to quarter-sawed stock on its two big band mills, 

 and its small logs are reduced to eighth log sections also on its 

 big mills; and the eighths are then transformed into boards and 

 strips by the use of a modification of a horizontal band resaw. 

 The sections are fed to the machine four or five at a time, turned 

 over and returned to the feed end of the machine by means of 



