HARDWOOD RECORD 



destroyed ui exploited as indiviiliuil faucy of 

 interest may dictate. 



The Province of Ontario lias u vital interest 

 in this question. She has 25,000,000 acres of 

 land that are valuable only for their for'st 

 growth. In the north are great forests of 

 spruce, suitable for pulpwood. estimated at -SS.- 

 000,000 cords. The annual provincial revenue 

 from the forests is close to .|i!, 000, 000. If 

 means can be taken to perpetuate the forests 

 and make tte revenue derived from them a per- 

 manent and increasing factor, it is surely only 

 wise to make an effort to discover them and put 

 them in practice. 



The convention will take a wide survey of 

 the question. The first division under nhich it 

 will be considered is the relation of the nation 

 to the forest. This will bring up the subject of 

 forest protection, the forest reserves and their 

 administration, the methods of raising public 

 revenue from the forests, etc., all of which are 

 practical matters upon which information and 

 discussion are required. One thing should be 

 kept clear, that tlie interest of the nation in the 

 forest is the paramount interest. 



The lumber and pulp industries and other busi- 

 nesses and manufactures that require wood sup- 

 plies will have an opportunity of presenting a 

 statement of their requirements. Few people 

 rr'alize what immense quantities of wood mate- 

 rials are used in Canada, or that a large part 

 of the hardwoods are imported from the United 

 .States. It will be well to understand clearly to 

 what extent our industries are dependent on the 

 raw materials supplied by the forests aud to 

 realize its large place as a national resource. 



Agricultural forestry will, as its importance 

 deserves, be given a special place on the pro- 

 gram. No side of the question is more impor- 

 tant. Anything that can be done to make farm- 

 ing more profitable by the planting or proper 

 management of wood lots and shelter belts will 

 be directly and indirectly a great source of ben- 

 elit. Increased supplies of wood will mean 

 greater comfort and better returns to the farmer, 

 while indirectly the woods will protect the 

 < Tiips and conserve the moisture. 



Freight Traffic Manager of the Pere Mar- 

 tiuette. 



Since the Erie Railroad system became 

 owner of the Pere Marquette Railroad, its 

 policy in connection with the handling of tliis 

 property has been a matter of more than pass- 

 ing interest to shippers. 



Under date of Nov. 11. from the otflce of 

 the vice president, H. B. Chamberlain, ap- 

 proved by F. D. Underwood, president, there 

 was issued a circular stating that A. Pat- 

 riarche is appointed freight traffic manager 

 of the Pere Marquette, with office at Detroit. 

 This information will be received with great 

 pleasure by the majority of shippers, and 

 notably shippers of forest products, who have 

 done business witli the Pere Marquette Rail- 

 road for many years. 



Than A. Patriarche there is probably no 

 freight traffic manager more highly esteemed. 

 He has been brought up with this system and 

 thu chief line which went to malie it up when 

 it was reorganized into the Pere Marquette 

 Railroad Company some years ago. These 

 roads were the Flint & Pere Marquette, the 

 Chicago & Western Michigan and the Detroit, 

 Grand Rapids & Western. The consolidated 

 s.vstem comprises more than 2,000 miles of 

 finely equipped railroad lines, very largel^f 

 withip the confines of the lower peninsula of 

 Michigan, and reaches in a comprehensive 

 network nearly all the principal cities of the 

 lower peninsula of the Wolverine state. That 

 the road has fallen into its logical place as 

 part of a still greater system, goes without 

 saying, and it is esteemed particularly fortu- 

 nate that the Erie management should con- 

 tinue in office as the chief of its traffic depart- 



ment a man who lias done his work with such 

 acumen, integrity and success as has A. Pat- 

 riarche. 



Mr. Patriarche wa.s born on the Island of 

 Jersey in 1849, and entered the service of the 

 I'lint & Pore Marquette liailroad ii.s local 

 agent at Bay City, in January, 1875. His ad- 

 vance in the freight service of this road has 

 been constant. Within a few years he was 

 promoted to the general western agency of 

 the conipan>' at Milwaukee. He was then ad- 

 vanced to assistant general freight agent, and 

 soon after to general freight agent. In 1S91 

 he became traffic manager of the Flint & Pere 

 Marciuette Company, and on the consolidation 

 of this company with the several other roads 

 making up the Pere Marquette Railroad sys- 

 tem, he became its traffic manager. 



In the development and management of the 

 traffic of the Pere Marquette Mr. Patriarche 

 has e\'inced abilities of the very liighest order. 

 He is not only a general traffic man. but 

 he is preeminently a lumber traffic man. He 

 knows the requirements and necessities of 

 lumber traffic perhaps better than any other 

 man in this country. In manner, he is ex- 

 ceedingly quiet and extremely reserved, and 

 yet his opinion and judgment are always re- 

 garded as of the hi,i;li,.-st iiiiiMirtance at every 



A. i'ATItlARCHE. DETROIT, MICH. 



railroad traffic conference. Althougli offered 

 in a quiet and unostentatious way. the clarity 

 of his judgment at such conferences is always 

 recognized and his opinion invariably domi- 

 nates. His sense of fairness and justice is so 

 accurate that the majority is always with him 

 on important questions. Personally he is the 

 personification of dignified good nature. Access 

 to his private office is just as easy of attain- 

 ment to the lowliest employee as it is to the 

 greatest railroad magnate in the land. There 

 is no uniformed page between Mr. Patriarche 

 and any man who has business to transact 

 with him. It is perhaps this element of ills 

 character that has gained the respect and 

 confidence of practically every shipper in the 

 state of Michigan. 



Addition to Factory Completed. 



The new addition to the plant of the Roddis 

 Lumber &: Veneer Company at Marshfield, 

 Wis., is now completed and in use. It is three 

 stories in height and 32x108 feet in dimen- 

 sions. The first floor is devoted to the ship- 

 ping department, the second to the slicing 

 department and the third is a drying room. 



This new building greatly increases the 

 company's facilities for handling its constantly 

 growing business. The products of the fac- 



tory find a ready sale in all parts of the 

 United States, and Canada as well as foreign 

 countries. Exceptionally fine work in mahog- 

 any and quartered oak is done here ana the 

 possibilities of veneer manufacture are being 

 developed to a remarkable extent. A large 

 part of the glue room is devoted to workmg 

 up tile veneer into very artistic designs and 

 special forms of' furniture, pianos and other 

 lines of manufacture. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company 

 also operates a large modern sawmill at Park 

 Falls, Wis., in charge of George W. Campbell, 

 where it owns large tracts of valuable hard- 

 wood timber and a logging railroad. 



The story of the growth of this company 

 typifies the marvelous development made dur- 

 ing the past few years in a practically new 

 industry. From a very modest beginning it 

 has grown, through the wise management of 

 W. H. Roddis, president, and Hamilton Rod- 

 dis, secretary and treasurer of tlie company, 

 who personally superintend operations, until 

 today it is a great and proHtable business. 



Of Value to Northern Michigan Towns. 



Tower, Cheboygan county, Mich., is to have 

 another railroad. The Michigan Central is 

 building a branch from Wolverine in that 

 direction. While the matter has not been 

 made public it is rumored that the road will 

 be extended to Onaway, thence to Rogers City, 

 making a connection with Lake Huron and 

 from there to Alpena. This is probably not 

 the -exact route to be adopted, but there are 

 good prospects of the road being built through 

 Presque Isle county next year. 



The branch will pass tliroughan area rich 

 in hardwoods, pine and cedar, and although 

 lumbering interests are expected to furnish 

 most of the road's business for a few years at 

 least, it will be wide gauge, with standard 

 rails and an excellent roadbed. A new rail- 

 road will mean much to the commercial prog- 

 ress of Tower, Rogers City, Onaway, and other 

 northern Michigan towns. 



Notable Forest Monarchs of the Buckeye 

 State. 



it is a pretty sentiment that put into the 

 deed transferring to the board of education 

 property on Hicks street the provision that 

 a giant oak, nearly fourteen feet in circum- 

 ference, should be preserved carefulb', says the 

 Cleveland Leader. Any fine old tree is worthy 

 of mucli respect. Cities cannot be too reluc- 

 tant to cut down forest monarchs that have 

 survived the change from wilderness to town. 



But Ohio lias had many trees tliat made a 

 girth of fourteen feet seem commonplace. The 

 late President Rutlierford B. Hayes measured 

 a famous white oak near Sarahsville, Noble 

 county, in 1875, that was thirty-four feet in 

 circumference. Its trunk towered seventy- 

 eight feet without a bend to the first branches. 

 The top of the magnificent tree was worthy of 

 its trunk. This giant oak was cut down in 

 ISSO. 



Near Marietta General Putnam found a black 

 V. alnut twenty-two feet in girth. Not far away 

 in Washington county, there was an elm, much 

 cater, which measured twenty-four feet in cir- 

 cumference two feet from the ground. An- 

 other Ohio tree of enormous size was an elm 

 that long stood back of the Methodist Epis- 

 copal parsonage in Chillicothe. It measured 

 over twenty-eight feet in girth a foot from 

 the ground and twenty-two feet three feet 

 from its base. Tlie top of this magnificent 

 tree covered about fifty-five square rods, or a 

 third of an acre, roughly speaking. 



But the most famous of all Ohio's giant 

 trees was a hollow sycamore that stood in the 

 rich bottom lands of the Scioto river, in what 

 is now Valley township, Scioto county. This 

 tree had a trunk twenty-one feet in diameter 



