HARDWOOD RECORD 



VlliW DK GAII.EY COMPANY PLANT FROM BELOW jriE DAM. 



NeWs Miscellany. 



New Acciuisition Cherry River Booni & 

 Lumber Ccmpany. 

 The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Com- 

 pany, one of the largest producers of hard- 

 wood spruce and hemlock lumber in the coun- 

 try, has just acquired the property of the 

 Gauley Company, and has taken over the op- 

 eration. The Cherry River Boom & Lumber 

 Company is the owner of 110,000 acres of 

 timber lands at Richwood. W. Va., on the 

 Richwood division of the Baltimore ii Ohio 

 Railroad. 224 miles south of Connellsville. 

 During the current year it has produced at 

 this plant approximately 60.000.000 feet of 

 spruce, hemlock and hardwoods, and in addi- 

 tion has purchased nearly 40.000,000 more, 

 making the total handlings nearly 100,000.000 

 feet. The timber property of the Gauley Com- 

 pany now acquired by the Cherry River Boom 

 & Lumber Company is approximately the 

 .'jamt acreage as the original holdings of the 

 company at Richwood and is located at Camden 

 on-Gauley. twenty-four miles north of Rich- 

 wood. This is one of the richest, if not the 

 richest, tract of timber in West Virginia, and 

 consists of poplar, oak, cherry and a variety 

 or other hardwoods, and on the higher levels. 

 a large amount of hemlock and spruce. The 

 Gauley Company has been a subsidiary com- 

 pany of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and 

 was taken over by this road from Senator 

 Camden when the company purchased from 

 him his railroad running south from Connells- 

 ville. which is now known as the Richwood 



division. Heretofore the plant has been op- 

 erated by agents of the company, and the 

 output has been sold through Price & Hart 

 of New York City. 



Accompanying this ai'ticle are several illus- 

 trations of features of the plant at Camden - 

 on-Gaulcy. However, since these views were 

 made, the great double band mill has been 

 rebuilt and much improved in many ways, a 

 railroad has been constructed, and other gen- 

 eral impro\'cments, costing a good many tliou- 

 sands of dollars have been made. 



This acquisition will mean an increase in the 

 annual output of the Cherry River Boom & 

 Lumber Company of more than 30.000.000 feet. 

 It is the intention of the company to use the 

 Gauley mill very largely for cutting hard- 

 woods, which will relieve the Kichvvood plaui 

 of anything but straight spruce and hemlock 

 production. It is expected tliat tliis system 

 will greatly facilitate the company's manu- 

 facturing system, as it will leave the Gauley 

 plant practically an exclusive hardwood oper- 

 ation, and tend to specialize. The comp.any 

 will run the Gauley operation at its full ca- 

 pacity, which means a splendid and increased 

 output of West Virginia hardwoods for Sales 

 Manager C. K. Lloyd, Jr., to handle through 

 the Philadelphia general sales office. It will 

 be a matter of congratulation to the lunil>er 

 trade generally to know that the Baltimore 

 & Ohio has consented to dispose of this prop- 

 erty and put it into logical position as one nf 

 the chief liimlM-r propositions of West \'n- 

 ginia. 



Ulc IMiri.AIt LOGS IN THE BOOM ABOVE THE MILL. 



Canadian Forestry Convention. 



Tile Canadian forestry convention, aeoordin;; 

 1(1 the Toronto World, which is called by Sir 

 Wilfrid Laurier to meet in Ottawa in January 

 next, will give opportunity for discussion by 

 i-epresentatives from all parts of the Dominion 

 of important questions relating to forest man- 

 ascnient which are among the most pressing 

 Willi which Canada has to deal. 



The riches of a country are its natural re- 

 sources. At the basis of all the industries of 

 Canada are tlie rich agricultural lands, the vast 

 forests, the mines and the lisheries. which sup- 

 ply the raw material for eomtnciM'c and maun- 

 faclure. Destroy these and the foundation of 

 prosperity perishes. The history of many an 

 ancient state, once flourishing, but now lost in 

 the sands of the desert, gives evidence of the 

 truth of this statement. The forests disappeared 

 from the hills and the streams departed with 

 them, agriculture languished and finally became 

 impossible and the population melted away, leav- 

 ing nothing b\it desolation behind. While such 

 direful results may not be possible in Canada, 

 yet it is difflcuit to realize how far-reaeliiug 

 may be the evil results of forest destruction 

 and the difference will only be in degree, not 

 in Ivind. And why should we needlessly reduce 

 our national resources when in the increasing 

 intensity of national and business life we will 

 have need for every advantage which ran be 

 obtained? 



The present forest wealth of tliis country and 

 of this prorince is not the product of this gen- 

 eration. It is the result of processes tliat have 

 been going on throigh years and ceiUurles of 

 the past. It is a public resource, lioarded up 

 by mother Nature in the days gone liy. and it 

 sluinhl be used f'U- the public bcnelit and not 



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