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can not happen when the tower system is- em- 

 ployed. Fighters within reach of the fire will 

 be sent against it, to keep it in check until 

 those farther away can come up. 



Watch towers, with quick triangulation ap- 

 paratus, are only part of the tools invented by 

 Mr. Adams for controlling fire and tested by 

 him in Arkansas. It would not avail much to 

 reach a fire quickly if no arrangement had been 

 made for extinguishing it. Chemical tanks, 

 mounted on horses, or on men's backs, are 

 carried along, with hose, nozzle, and fire shields ; 

 and if the fire has not gained too much head- 

 way it can be extinguished by that means, sup- 

 plemented by the usual methods of beating out 

 the blaze with wet sacks or green boughs. The 

 *'fire department." thus mounted on horses, can 

 get over the ground very rapidly, and it can, of 

 course, be used independently of any system of 

 watch towers. 



The bulletin discusses fully the ways and 

 means of getting the best service out of the 

 apparatus, and also the matter of training the 

 fire fighters, and organizing auxiliaries to be 

 called out in cases of emergency. 



Purchase of Poles for 1911 



Preliminary report for 1011 issued by the 

 census bureau shows that the number of poles 

 purchased by telegraph and telephone companies, 

 steam and electric railways and electric light 

 and power companies in the United States was 

 less than for 1910 and 1909 by 452.674 and 

 320,720 respectively but exceeded tue total for 

 190S and 1907 by 168,866 and 134,752 respect- 

 ively. The total reported purchase in 1911 ag- 

 gregated 3.418,020, of which 70.3 per cent were 

 made by telephone and telegraph companies, 23 

 per cent by electric railroad, light and power 

 companies, and 6.7 per cent by the steam rail- 

 roads. 



The decrease in the 1911 totals as compared 

 with that for the preceding year was confined 

 entirel.v to a falling ofl: in purchase by the tele- 

 phone and telegraph companies and steam rail- 

 roads. On the other hand, a substantial In- 

 crease was shown in purchases by electric rail- 

 roads and electric light and power companies. 

 The decrease in 1911 in purchases as reported 

 by the telegraph and telephone companies was 

 not general, being confined in the main to states 

 iu which there was no more than usual activity 

 in the construction of telephone lines during 

 1910. 



During the period of five years covered by the 

 report, the total pole purchase was 17.559,876, 

 of which white cedar contributed 64.2 per cent ; 

 chestnut, 17.8 per cent ; oak, 5.3 per cent ; pine, 

 4.5 per cent : cypress, 2.4 per cent. These five 

 woods furnished 94.3 per cent of the total, but 

 the tendency has continued to substitute less 

 expensive woods lor these five. Other woods 

 used are redwood, osage orange, and locust. 



Successful Management of Wood Lots 



The New York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse University has placed under supervision 

 the first commercial forest devoted entirely to 

 the production of trees as a forest crop. The 

 tract in question is but small, comprising only 

 one hundred fifty acres, but offers exceptional 

 opportunities for investigation. The forestry 

 students made detailed surveys and maps of the 

 tract and have laid it out in separate plots 

 which vary in size from one-eighth of an acre to 

 a full acre. Each sample area is managed ac- 

 cording to different methods of forest improve- 

 ments, some being given frequent thinnings of 

 old and matured trees, others lighter thinnings 

 and more attention to natural growth, while 

 on still others thinning, seeding and replanting 

 will he carried. 



The work can have no practical value as far 

 as the supply of sawlogs in the country is con- 

 cerned for a long time to come at least, but it 

 should serve to establish valuable figures which 

 can be used by farmers possessing wood lots of 



small area who desire to manage them for the 

 greatest remuneration possible. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Globe Box Factory. .\iw Orleans, La., 

 was damaged by fire to the extent of $00,000. 



The Kennedy Corporation has been organized 

 at Killingly, Conn., with a capitalization of $12,- 

 000. 



The McXatt Coffin Casket Company was in- 

 corporated at Vidalia, Ga.. with a capital stock 

 of .$25,000. 



"the Texarkana Casket Company was recently 

 incorporated at Texarkana, Ark., with a capital 

 stock of $80,000. 



The F. Leslie Clark Piano Company has been 

 incorporated at Milwaukee, Wis., with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. 



The Diamond Furniture Company, with a capi- 

 talization of $100,000, has started operations at 

 Statesville, N. C. 



It is reported that the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany .of Memphis, Teun., has discontinued its 

 yard at Cairo, 111. 



The American Veneer & Specialty Company has 

 begun operations at Newport, Ark., with a cap- 

 ital stock of $50,000. 



Consolidated Piano Company has been incor- 

 porated at Bridgeport, Conn. The company will 

 operate with $25,000 capital. 



The American Veneered Column Company is 

 the name of a concern recently started in Brook- 

 lyn. X. Y., with $10,000 capital. 



The Fisher Vehicle, Woodstock and Lumber 

 Company has recently been incorporated at New 

 Madrid, Mo., with a capital of $5,000. 



The Klerner Furniture Company is the style 

 of a new corporation at New Albany, Ind. This 

 company has $30,000 subscribed capital. 



The Avon Furniture Manufacturing Company, 

 Easton, Md., was recently organized with a cap- 

 ital stock of $50,000 to manufacture tables. 



The Riegelsville Manufacturing Company, 

 Eiegelsville, Pa., manufacturer of caskets, will 

 rebuild its plant which was destroyed by fire. 



The Farmers Handy Wagon Company of Sag- 

 inaw, Mich., builder of silos, will erect a plant 

 for making silos at Houston, Tex., in the near 

 future. 



The Clio Manufacturing Company of Clio, 

 Mich., manufacturer of woodworking novelties, 

 baskets., etc., suffered a $10,000 loss by fire. The 

 plant will be rebuilt. 



The Royan, Dawson & Ryan Manufacturing 

 Company, Dresden, O., was recently incorporated 

 to manufacture baskets, boxes, veneers, etc. The 

 company is capitalized at $10,000. 



The W. H. White Company of Boyne City, 

 Mich., have assumed control of the mill of F. 

 W. Gilchrist at Alpena, Mich., and will operate 



as soon as its railroad to Gaylord is completed. 



A stock company was formed recently in In- 

 dianapolis, Ind., to manufacture an undertaker's 

 camp chair recently invented by George Palmer, 

 a former chair manufacturer. The company in- 

 cludes in its stockholders Rodney 11. Brandon, 

 Kenneth Mc.Mahon, Archer Jackley and George 

 Palmer. 



The Edisto River Lumlwr company is a recent 

 corporation, with head ofiices at Manistee, Mich. 

 The capital stock is $50,000, of which $30,000 

 is subscribed in cash and $20,000 in timber land 

 at Edisto, S. C. The principal stockholders arc 

 Howard Cole of St. Louis, Mo., and Andrew 

 Dovel and J. O. Nessen of Manistee. 



The Knabe Brothers Company, piano manu- 

 facturer of Norwood, O., has recently begun 

 operation in its new factory which succeeds the 

 one destro.ved by fire. The new plant is thor- 

 oughly modern in every respect, one of the chief 

 features being the veneering department, which 

 is equipped with the latest and most efficient 

 machinery for the veneering of piano cases. 



The American Veneer Company, Newport, Ark., 

 has purchased the plant of the American Panel 

 & Lumber Company and will improve and oper- 

 ate it, manufacturing elm, walnut and gum 

 veneers, and baskets from s.vcamore. The officers 

 of the company are : Oscar W. Jacobs, presi- 

 dent-treasurer, Kalamazoo, Mich. ; Wm. C. Grace, 

 vice-president, and Geo. P. Benton, secretary. 



The Sliger-Roettger Lumber and Manufactur- 

 ing Company has recently started business at 

 Huntington, W. Va., to manufacture, buy and 

 sell lumber, and deal in timber and timberlands. 

 The authorized capital of the new company is 

 $25,000, and the incorporators are : Walter 

 Sliger, Fred J. Roettger, T. W. Sliger, C. A, 

 Sliger and Everett Roettger, all of Huntington. 



The B. A. Stevens Company of Toledo, Ohio. 

 has reduced its capital stock from $250,000 to 

 $50,000, in order to eliminate the expense of sur- 

 plus capital which was not used. The company 

 was organized in 1875 by B. A. Stevens, who 

 died eight years ago. The concern suffered a 

 .great loss last July when the factory was al- 

 most destroyed by fire. One factory building and 

 the office building was saved and the company 

 has since occupied only these buildings. 



It will no doubt be of Interest to the lumber 

 trade in general in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan 

 to take notice that H. J. Reinhard has resigned 

 from his position as sales manager of the Mid- 

 land Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., and will 

 represent some larger mills in the South on a 

 sales agency basis. Mr. Reinhard's many friends 

 no doubt will be pleased to note this change, 

 inasmuch as he will now be in better position 

 to take care of the volume of business which has 

 always been given to him. 



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^^^^ Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



H. F. Below of the Vollmar & Below Com- 

 pany, Marshfleld, Wis., spent a few days of last 

 week in Chicago. 



H. H. Heineman, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Heineman Lumber Company, Heineman, 

 Wis., paid Hardwood Recobd an appreciated 

 call on Dec. 3. 



M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Isardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., stopped at Habdwood 

 Record offices on the third of the month. 



R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the Northern Hem- 

 lock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 Wausau, Wis., was in town a few days the past 

 week, and dropped in at Hardwood Record 

 offices. 



James D. Lacey of James D. Lacey & Co., 

 Chicago, recently spent a few days at the New 

 Orleans office, from which place he went to his 

 home on the Hudson river. Mr. Lacey will spend 

 the latter part of the winter in New Orleans. 



J. H. Faust of J. H. Faust & Co., Paducab, 

 Ky., was in the city on business several days 

 last week. 



F. A. Kirby and Martin Rees of the Cherry 

 River Boom & Lumber Company, Scranton, I*a., 

 spent a couple of days in Chicago the early part 

 of last week. 



A beautiful catalogue styled "Clyde's Self- 

 Propelling Logging Machinery" has just been 

 received from the offices of the Clyde Iron Works, 

 Duluth, Minn. The hook shows extremely good 

 taste from cover to cover. It is descriptive of 

 that concern's extensive line of logging machinery, 

 and is generously and effectively illustrated. 



