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lu this (lay of closer timber cutting and the haudliug of cut-over 

 lands and inferior timbered areas, it is becoming quite a rarity 

 to find oak of the surpassing quality that is shown in the accom- 

 panying illustrations. Hardwood Record has secured from the 

 Paepcke-Leicht Luiuber Conii)any of ^'hicago these photographs which 

 depict the splendid red oak lumber product that it is securing at 

 the present time from its virgin timber tribu- 

 tary to its Blytheville, Ark., operation. 



Illustration No. 1 shows a sixteen-foot red 

 oak log that contained 1,444 feet. 



Illustration No. 2 shows the same log on 

 the carriage in the mill. This log developed 

 seventy-two per cent of No. 1 common and 

 better lumber. A specimen of the product is 

 shown in the two longer boards in the picture 

 in the center of this page. 



Illustration No. 3 shows a fourteen-foot red 

 oak which is again shown on the carriage in 

 the sawmill in the fourth picture. This log 

 developed 1,272 feet of lumber of which sev- 

 enty-three per cent was No. 1 common and 

 better. Two of the clean planks out of this 

 log are shown in the middle illustration. 



E. A. Lang, manager of the lumber depart- 

 ment of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company, 

 Chicago, says that his company never has 

 had a better class of logs than it is working 

 on at the present time, not only in its oak 

 but also in red gum and Cottonwood. It goes 

 without saying that lumber of the type being 

 produced b}' this company is meeting with a 

 ready sale at very satisfactory prices. 



lu all the history of oak production there apparently never was 

 such a shortage of stock as at the present time. 



Artificial Ebony from Oak 



A consul in France gives the following process for converting 

 oak wood into artificial ebony: 



The blocks of wood are immersed forty-eight 

 liours in a warm saturated solution of alum and 

 sprinkled several times with a decoction of iog- 

 Nvood. Smaller pieces may be steeped for some 

 time in the decoction, which is prepared in the 

 following manner: One part of logwood of 

 Ijest quality is boiled with ten parts of water. 

 It is ther filtered through linen and the liquid 

 evaporated at low temperature until its volume 



I is reduced by one-half. To every quart of this 



liath is added ten to fifteen drops of a saturated 

 solution of soluble indigo. After having watered 

 the block several times with this solution, the 

 wood is rubbed with a saturated and filtered 

 solution of verdigris in warmed concentrated 

 .icetic acid. This operation is repeated until a 

 black color of the desired intensity is obtained. 



The ("anadian Railway Commissioners have 

 disallowed the increase of cartage rates on 

 freight proposed by the railway companies 

 to be effective in Eastern Canada. The com- 

 panies may impose rates not exceeding two 

 and a half cents per hundred pounds and 

 the minimum toll charge for any complete 

 single shipment shall not exceed fifteen cents. 

 This increases the rate by half a cent per 

 1(H) pounds in place of one cent. 



