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has been practiced for many years in the rough country of both the 

 East and the West. The earlier types of these slides were made of 

 logs which were never entirely satisfactory on account of their initial 

 cost, the waste of forest material and general erudeness. 



Tlie plank slide here depicted is an evolution in slide building 

 which is far in advance of a timber slide, and in efficiency and cheap- 

 ness of operation ranks second only to the logging railroad, and in 

 some instances can be employed economically to better advantage than 

 a railroad, where slopes are too steep to make tlic operation of a log- 

 ging road possible. 



The details of the construction of these slides has previously been 

 described in Hardwood Eecord. This picture was made in the opera- 

 tions of the Little Eiver Lumber Company in Sevier county, Tenn. 



Policy of Hardwood Record 



THIS ISSUE of Hardwood Record will go to its numerous clien- 

 tele involving timber owners, lumber manufacturers, woodwork- 

 ing machinery makers, veneer and hardwood flooring producers, fur- 

 niture and other woodworking factories, etc., with a new makeup 

 and with broadened plans for increased usefulness. 



The average astute lumber 

 producer who is a close student 

 of his affairs is of the opinion 

 that lumber production and utili- 

 zation in the United States has 

 yet achieved scarcely fifty per 

 cent of its ultimate efficiency. 

 That is, he avers that less than 

 fifty per cent of possible forest 

 utilization has as yet been at- 

 tained. 



To assist in better efficiency is 

 certainly the province of the log- 

 ical lumber trade newspaper, and 

 it is with this end in view that 

 hereafter Hardwood Eecord will 

 be transformed into what will be 

 practically a hardwood magazine, 

 devoted to both scientific and 

 commercial matters, inclusive of 

 news and market reports, that are 

 germane to the hardwood forest 

 and the products thereof. To a 

 large extent t^vial and unimpor- 

 tant alleged news matter and the 

 accompanying ' ' eon, bunk and 

 piffle," with which the trade 

 press is burdened, will be elim- 

 inated, and an earnest attempt be made to produce a periodical that 

 shall not only be of interest, but of essential educational value to 

 everyone connected with the production, distribution and utilization 

 of hardwood lumber. 



The editors do not propose to tell the lumber trade what they know 

 about the lumber business, but will attempt to reflect the best opin- 

 ions of the best talent covering all phases of forestry, logging, manu- 

 facture, seasoning, assorting, sales, distribution and utilization of the 

 splendid remaining hardwood forests of the country. 



While the editorial staff of the publication remains unchanged, 

 co-operating with it will be a large number of contributors who will 

 write on topics on which they are authorities. There will also be a 

 series of articles from scientists, who up to this time have had but 

 small distinction or even respect, but whose studies and knowledge 

 of sundry phases of the subjects involved are now being regarded as 

 of paramount educational value to the trade. 



What the lumbermen of this country do not know about the 

 lumber business is astounding even in comparison with the more 

 specific and accurate knowledge possessed by foreign wood users. It 

 is safe to say that the average Englishman or German has a better 

 knowledge of the physics and value of American woods than the vast 

 majority of American operators. It is held that the majority of 



American lumber manufacturers have been too Inisv in "sawing 

 wood" to find time to make themselves scientific students of the great 

 business in which they are engaged, without whicli a high and desirable 

 efficiency is impossible of attainment. 



Then, what Hardwood Record is attempting is to assist in helping 

 every element of the trade with information to a better knowledge 

 of the calling, and ultimately to a much higher efficiency along every 

 line of the business, that the prevailing scandal of less than fifty per 

 cent efficiency shall become past rather tlian cnrrcnt history of the 

 hardwood industrv. 



T 



C ?P, Proton 



Scalrr in 



Mtolesiale OTapn ^tocfe 



Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1912. 

 Hard'wood Record, 



Chicago, III. 



Gentlemen: — Will you kindly cancel my ad in your 

 classified ad section. 



In the four insertions, I have received fifteen applica- 

 tions to date, and have secured a first-class man to rep- 

 resent me in the South. I cannot say enough for your 

 paper as an advertiser. It certainly reaches everybody 

 in the lumber business. 



Northern Cut and Shipments for 1912 



HE XOKTHERX HEMLOCK AM) HARDWOOD Manufac- 

 turers' Association has issued an interesting statement of the 

 cut and shipments reported by association members covering the 

 period December 1, 1911, to November 30, 1912. The statistics 

 were compiled on a basis of reports of an average of seventy-four 

 concerns, members of the association. The report shows a total 

 cut of all hardwoods aggregating 259,017,000 feet with shipments 

 aggregating ;il9,062,000 feet. It is interesting to note the excess 



of shipments over cut during 

 the year. 



The cut of hemlock during 

 the year was 405,626,000 feet, 

 and the shipments 545,935,000 

 feet, also a decided excess of 

 shipments over cut. 



In ash' the cut was 6,085,000 

 feet against shipments of 10,- 

 370,000 feet; for lasswood the 

 cut w^as 40,308,000 feet and the 

 shipments 50,730,000 feet; for 

 birch the cut was 72,454,000 

 feet and the shipments 99,249,- 

 000 feet; the cut of elm was 

 23,770,000 feet and the ship- 

 ments 29,062,000 feet; the cut 

 of maple was 65,279,000 feet 

 and shipments 76,605,000 feet; 

 in oak there were 2,563,000 feet 

 cut and 3,614,000 feet shipped. 

 Thus it is seen that in every 

 item there is a decideil excess 

 of shipments over cut. 



All these items showed a 

 gradual increase in the cut 

 month by month up to early 

 summer months, after which 

 time the cut gradually decreased. The aggregate hardwood cut 

 showed a decided increase during the first four months. The 

 same figures were maintained then for March and April, 1912, 

 after which there was a rapid falling off up to September. Octo- 

 ber showed a slight increase over September cut, but for the month 

 of November a further decrease was noted from the figures for the 

 preceding month. 



With th« exception of .lanuary, 1912, shipments of all hard- 

 woods were maintained fairly uniformly until the end of April. 

 January showed a considerably lesser shipment than the other five 

 months. From April to May there was a decided jump, though 

 May and June were approximately the same in shipments. The 

 months of July and August, however, each showed a gain of about 

 five million feet in hardwood shipments, while September showed 

 a falling off of about seven million feet. October came back with 

 a gain of six million feet, while the shipments for November were 

 three million feet less. This would indicate that the heavy snows 

 last January seriously affected the shipments, but that when they 

 did start there was a steady ilemand which was maintained 

 throughout the summer, and gradually increased up to the end 

 of the summer months, the car shortage then effecting less steady 

 shipments. 



Yours very truly. 



E. B, BROWN. 



