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HARDWOOD RECORD 



New Mershon Band E«saw Catalogue. 



Tbe Uakdwood Recobd Is indebted to \V. H. 

 Mershon & Co. of Saginaw, Mich., foi- a cop.v of 

 a beautifully printed 100-page catalngue entitled 

 'A nandbook of Kesaws." In the piefatory note 

 the author, E. C. Mershon, says that in submit- 

 ting this seventh edition of his catatoguo it has 

 been his object to describe and illustrate most 

 of the machines made by his company, and also 

 to give sucli information as to the care of the 

 saws themselves and the arrangement and equip- 

 ment of the tiling room as may be of interest 

 and value to the Inexperienced. 



The work includes a handsome pliotogravure 

 portrait of E. C. Mershon. the foremost inventor 

 of band resawlng machinery ; a view of the 

 interior of the shops of W. B. Merslion & Co., 

 hnd illustrations and general descriptions of the 

 larger number of types of band resaws. edger.s, 

 etc., made by the company. The book also con- 

 tains illustrated descriptions of the new and 

 improved styles of horizontal resaws and twin 

 resaws made by \Y. B. Mershon & Co., as well 

 as all the older standard types of machines that 

 have been produced by the company for several 

 years. Much practical knowledge of value to 

 users of band resaws is included in the work, 

 and it should certainly have a careful reading bv 

 every user of band resawlng machinery. Copies 

 may be obtained on application to W. B. Mer- 

 shon & Co. at Saginaw. 



Combined Spoke and Handle Lathe. 



Pictured herewith is the forty-two inch 

 patent automatic combined spoke and handle 



NE^A SPOKE AND HANDLE LATHE. 



lathe manufactured by the Defiance Machine 

 Works at Defiance, O. This machine is used 

 for turning and squaring spokes for wagon and 

 carriage wheels, having the necessary adjust- 

 ments to turn all shapes and sizes. It will 

 also turn pick handles, mining pick handles, 

 hammer handles and hatchet handles. The 

 frame Is cast in one piece, having a cored cen- 

 ter and broad base, being very stiff and reli- 

 able. It occupies a floor space of 6 feet by 3 

 feet 6 inches. The operation of the machine 

 Is very simple and no expensive labor is re- 

 quired. The material is placed in and re- 

 moved from the machine without stopping. 

 A full description and details concerning this 

 Improved piece of machinery can be obtained 

 from the Defiance Machine Works, Defiance, 

 O. 



Severe Fire Loss at Curtin, W. Va. 

 The double band rrJIl of the Pardee & Cur- 

 tin Lumber Company at Curtin. W. Va., was 

 totally destroyed by fire on Dec. 1. The cause 

 of the fire is unknown. Tlie mill was located 

 In a cove alongside and near the mouth of the 

 Cherry river, and by reason of the topography 

 of the land a strong air current was formed, 

 causing the Are to spread very rapidly. The 

 mill took fire at 2 o'clock In the afternoon, and 

 at 4 the plant was a total wreck. The loss Is 

 approximately J75,000, only about half of which 

 Is covered by insurance. The stock In the 

 yard was saved. While the loss Itself Is not 

 a very severe one to a concern of the wealth 

 of the Pardee & Curtin T.iimlier r'l.nnpnny, it 



is quite serious at such an active period of 

 lumber sales as the present, on account of 

 rendering the company short of stock for next 

 spring's trade. Howo\'er, the company has an- 

 other large mill at Sutton and several small 

 plants, and its business will be continued with- 

 out interruption. Considering the large lumber 

 holdings of the company at Curtin. it goes 

 without saying that the burned mill will be 

 immediately rebuilt. 



Important Meeting of 'Veneer and Panel 

 Manufacturers. 



A meeting wbicli promises to attract an at- 

 tendance of several hundred veneer and panel 

 manul'iKturers will be held at the Auditorium 

 hotel. Chicago, on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

 Dec. 19 and 20. A preliminary meeting was 

 held at the Grand hotel, Cincinnati, Nov. 20, at 

 which there were present producers from New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, "W'est Virginia. Ken- 

 tucky. Tennessee, North Carolina, Indiana, Wis- 

 consin, Michigan and Missouri. A tentative or- 

 ganization was effected, which will resolve itself 

 into a permanent one at the forthcoming Chi- 

 cago meeting. The object of the association 

 is the establishment of grades and a regula- 

 tion of prices. Besides this a thorough canvass 

 will be made of the outlook for raw material, 

 which is becoming scarce. Statistics of jn-d- 

 ductiou and other matters pertaining To tlie 

 good of the trade will be considered. 



As the veneer business is becoming one of 

 the most important adjuncts of the hardwood 

 industry and the output of veneer plants enters 

 so largely into the production of furniture, rail- 

 way coaches, street cars, carriages, automobiles, 

 etc.. It is undeniable that much good can be 

 accomplished by the formation of this associa- 

 tion, and an exchange of experience and advice 

 by people engaged in it. It is to be hoped that 

 every veneer manufacturer in tbe country will 

 make a special effort to be present at this meet- 

 ing. 



Heinemanu Operations. 



Bus.v scenes an- tlio rule on the Eau Claire 

 river in the vicinity of Antigo, Wis., where is 

 located tlie mill of the 15. Heinemann Lumber 

 Company of Wausau. The company has an 

 army of loggers at work on the river, and ex- 

 pects to put in about l,''j, 000,000 feet of hard- 

 woods, hemlock and pine this winter. The larg- 

 est camps are now busy putting logs on skids, 

 and the roads arc practically all cut and graded. 

 The company's mill, at its fullest capacity of 

 from 50,000 to 00,000 feet of hardwoods or 

 "5,000 feet of hemlock a day, is operated day 

 and night throughout the entire winter. 



A private telephone system is now being in- 

 stalled by this entei'prising firm at tbe Antigo 

 plant. The otlice is used as "ceutral," witli 

 lines running to the saw and planing mill, board- 

 ing house and stables and to the company's 

 houses occupied by the foremen of various de- 

 partments of the factory and the ollioe employes. 

 This will greatly facilitate matters and will 

 enable the company to handle business with dis- 

 patch. 



The B. Heinemann Lumber Company has here 

 a most thcroughly equipped plant, in an ideal 

 situation. It manufacturers, besides hardwoods, 

 hemlock and pine lumber, basswood excelsior to 

 the extent of about a car load a day. 



A Magazine Worth WhUe. 

 The Crattsnuin Is the name of an Illustrated 

 monthly magazine, now In Its ninth volume, 

 published by Gustnv Stickley at Syracuse, N. Y. 

 The announcement on Its cover page reads "For 

 the Slmplincatlon of Life." The Ciaftsman Is 

 a very hi'autiful specimen of magazine construc- 

 tion from a mechanical standpoint, and when 

 one delves Into its contents he becomes disgusted 

 that he should have been so long content with 

 a perusal of the pabulum written by the literary 

 ].r,rcli cllnil)ii-< Mini U deemed worthy to see the 



light of day by nine-tenths of the magazine 

 editors of the country. 



The Craftsman deals with topics that are 

 worth while in the everyday life of mankind. 

 Its contents are clean, ennobling and i)ractical. 

 It is the opinion of the Uakdwood Record that 

 any person of taste and discernment can get 

 more solid satisfaction out of The Craftsman 

 than he can out of an even half dozen of any 

 of the other magazines published. In its one de- 

 partment of artistic and simijle home building 

 it is fully worth the subscription price of $3 a 

 year. 



Setting Fence Posts Bottom End Up. 



".Many years ago," says Andrew Whiton in 

 lopular Mechanics, "while engaged in running 

 a sawmill in eastern Connecticut, I had a lot 

 of fence posts to saw from chestnut logs. 'The 

 posts were to be sawed tapering, and to econo- 

 mize in lumber the logs were lirst sawed square 

 and then split diagonally like the accompanying 

 diagram. Of course they were to be set in the 

 ground large end dowm. which would bring 

 one-half of them bottom end up in regard to the 

 position in which they grew. I remembered 



bearing an old farmer say that posts set that 

 way would outlast those set 'right end up,' anil 

 I determined to improve the opportunity at 

 band to test the matter. So I marked all the 

 inverted ones ; and as the fence was to be built 

 lU the neighborhood, I watched the result. Ex- 

 amining the fence about nine years after it was 

 built convinced me, as the inverted ones were 

 in-acticaliy sound, while the others showed very 

 much more decay." 



Forestry in Scotland. 

 A very wide-spread interest has recentl.v been 

 manifested in Scotland in tbe establishment of 

 a state model forest, wliicli would be valuable 

 not only in the teaching of forestry, but also to 

 demonstrate to landed proprietors what might 

 be achieved by judicious management and the 

 application of scientiiic principles of forestry. 

 The need of such a step will be realized when it 

 is known that the United Kingdom is said to be 

 the most poorly wooded country in Europe. 

 There are about 21,000,000 acres of land lying 

 waste, only about four per cent of the total 

 area of the British Isles being wooded, nver 

 .$125,000,000 worth of timber Is imported an- 

 nually into the British Isles, a large part of 

 which is supplied by the I'nited Slates. It is 

 claimed that much of Ibis timber, probably all 

 the coniferous wood, would grow well on the 

 waste lands of the country. It has also beeo 

 proposed to institute a degree in forestry in the 

 various Scottish universities. 



Sale of VanderbUt Timber. 



A dispatch from Ashevllle. N. C, announces 

 that George W. 'Vandcrbilt has sold to W. S. 

 Alexander of Charlotte and others the standing 

 timber on his Pisgah momttain forest reserve. 

 The timber acreage Involved in tbis property 

 is approximately 100,000 acres, and It Is esti- 

 mated that the tract contains 300.000,000 feet 

 of poplar, oak, chestnut and other hardwoods 

 that have reached maturity and are of mar- 

 ketable quality for saw timber. It Is under- 

 stood that the sale of this mature and hyper- 

 mature timber from the Vanderbilt holdings 

 will in no wise Interfere with the cr.ntinuanco 

 of the rcforestry plans which have been con- 

 ducted for the past ten years by Dr. Schenck. 

 but that the limber removed will be replaced 

 with young growth for the purpose of main- 

 taining the perpetuity of the forest. 



New Hardwood Rules. 



Tbe amended rules of tbe National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, an adopted by the associa- 



