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turn in sawing the hardest rarieties. ■ He em- of. business success far beyond that of dol- 



ploys eight or ten natives or Chinese and two lars and cents. In his recent message Presi- 



American laborers to operate his mill. dent Roosevelt said: "This government 



A large quantity of the timber brought to stands for manhoixl first, and for business 



the Manila market is in square logs, which are "nly as an adjunct of manhood, and in such 



invariably a source of annoyance to mill men, -' republic as ours the one thing we cannot 



because most of them are dry and therefore ^'ft'oitl to neglect is the problem of turning 



much more difficult to saw. The Chinese lum- ""t decent citizens." We could get along 



berman, however, usually keeps his logs in without the poets, the artists, the musicians, 



water until he is ready to market them. although it must be confessed that their 



Since the advent of the steam plants the I'ffoi-ts '-ad.l to the gaiety of nations," but 

 business of the small hand mills operated by "<= can only write ourselves down as a pros- 

 Filipinos and Chinese is quite different. Thev Pe™"s country while the sturdy honest busi- 

 now do but little sawing, confining their "^ss man sits behind the office door and 

 operations to buying and selling, although ««-ks o"t the ever wonderful problems of 

 some of the very thin lumber is still sawn by f^'i'^- Believing thoroughly that '"what a 

 hand, to avoid waste, which the frugal China- '"3° tloes he is," it is with great pleasure 



, ■ , . 1 1 • u • J 1 J.1 that the Record adds this narrative of the 

 man objects to, and which is caused bv the 



., . , £ ^u 4. 11 rri '1 achievements of Clement E. Lloj'd, Jr., to 



thicker saws of the steam mills. The circular , 



, .,, J ,! » 1 1 1 those of other hardwood lumbermen, 

 and gang sawmills produce nrst-class lumber, 



,,, v. 4.V, 1 1 J. t, 1 ilr. Llovd is of Quaker stock; his ances- 



although they lack many of the modern au- - ^ . , ,...'. „ 



,. rm T 1 T V ,. tors came to this countrv with William Penu. 



pliances. The Insular Lumber Company, , ^ -^^ „■., 



. . „ . . ,, , Both his mother, who was Irene E. Githens, 



operating in Aegros, is using the only steam , , . „ , ,-., , t- t n -r 1. 1 



*.„ / . " ' , .J ,, ./ ,, and his father, Clement E. Lloyd, belong to 



mill of importance outside Manila. Its .... ., ..„ , ... ., 



. 1 ■ ^ families whose names are identitied with the 



capacity is lL',000 feet per day. A tew ijort- ,. . ■, ^. r>, -i i 1 i_. nr ti j 



^ •' . ., . ' earliest days of Philadelphia. Mr. Lloyd 



ables are operating m the provinces, but on , . ^ ,, ,or... ■ tii -i i 1 1 • 



' * ^ . ' was born August 11, 186S, m a Philadelphia 



the whole very little lumber is being manu- , , , ■ i i,- ] ,• • »i v 



■' " suburb and received his education m the pub- 



factured elsewhere. ,. , , j. ^, . ■. xj- « * 1, ■ ,„„„ 



he schools of that citv. His first business 



The prices for sawing logs at Manila vary ^_^^^^^^ ^.^^ ^.^jj^.^^^ ^;^^_ ^j^.^^ ^^ p^^.^^^^^ 



according to the hardness of the wood, from ^.^.^^^ ^gg^ ^^^^j, ^g^-^ ^.^^^^ j^^ determined 

 fifteen to forty pesos, averaging about twenty- ^^ ^^^^^^ ^ lumberman and accepted a posi- 

 five pesos per thousand feet. The following ji,,^^ ^;^^ j^^^^^.^ j^ wheeler. He was under 

 statistics show the quantity of lumber manu- ^^j._ wheeler's most capable tutelage untU 

 factured, the names of the most important j^yj_ ^.j^g^ j^^ ^^^.^^^ to Cincinnati and 

 woods and the price of each in pesos— one „.orked for John Streight. In 1S94, how- 

 peso being equal to about fifty, cents United ^^.gj.^ j^j. lj^^.j ^turned to Philadelphia and 

 btates currency: bought and sold lumber ou his own account, 

 l-'oi ten mor.tb.s trom July 1. 11)04. timber .j-^j^ broadened his acquaintance in both west 

 sliipped to Manila, 10,754.152 feet. , -,,^„, -n t ^ , 

 CAPACITIES OF MA.xiLA MILLS. ^ud south. In 1899 hc Organized and took 

 Feet per day. charge of the hardwood department of Wil- 



B. \V. Cadwallader Co :jO,000 ,. „., ., „ „ , i v *i. 



The .tolm Gibson Mill 20,000 bam Whitmer & feons. Inc., and lor three 



.Manila Sawmill ■•■•■■•■ : ■,•,■• ' ?9'00° vears made this branch of their business a 



Philippine Lumber & Development Co... lo.OOO .'^ " >- 



Tuason & San Pedro 15,000 prominent and successful adjunct. It was 



Total .TotXOOo from this alliance that he gained his knowl- 



PRICES OF -x.ATivE LUMBEK. edge of sprucB which makes him such a factor 



Species— ''^"^'^ "pesos^^'''' '" the commercial success of the Cherry River 



Apitong 90.00 to 100.00 Boom & Lumber Company, which he entered 



.\muguis 120.00 to 140.00 , . ^^,^-" ^, , . 



Acle 240.00 to 300.00 as sales manager m 1902. Ihe members or 



Beuf\:::::::::;:::;::::::: olHo to 2io:oo this company might have come from Mis- 



Calanta.s 140.00 to 160.00 souri, as Mr. Lloyd has been able to • ' show ' ' 



Dungon 260.00 to 320.00 , , . . ,, , .. . , . „,. 



Guijo 140. OU to 160.00 a phenomenal increase m the sales ot the last 



Ipil '. . .' 240.00 to 300.00 four venrs 



Lauan 80.00 tour j ears. 



Molave 260.00 to 320.00 In 1902 the shipments of the Cherry River 



xirm, • whi'te ' '. '. '. .::/.: ; : : : : : : 240:00 to SoHo Boom & Lumber Company aggregated 30,000,- 



\arra, red 260.00 to 320.00 qOO feet : in 1903 there was an increase of 



&upa 160.00 to 200.00 ' .,„„., , ., , 



■I'anguile 100.00 6,000,000 feet; m 1904 the sales piled up 



'''="•''' ISO.OO tn 240.00 j^ g^^^ ^jj ^^jg^^ j^jjt tijg jjj^ljg ^^.g,.g ^gpt 



running day and night, and 46,000,000 feet 



TillildPrK of T 1imf^t>r TTi^tOfU of lumber was the record of that year. This 



r>UllU.t^f ^ KJJ I^UniU^r lll^LKJri^, ^as discounted in 1905, when 00,000,000 feet 



NUMBEB XVIII. were sold from the company 's mills, be- 



„. „ „ T ,. r, rx . , 1 sides 10,000,000 feet purchased from outside 



River Boom & Lumber Companj-. it is hoped mi . i i i • 



' , •' , ^ concerns. This phenomenal showing is more 



that the renders of the articles that have ap- ^g^^.^able when it is known that most of 



pcared in each issue have found more than jj^^ g^^jg^ ^^^g j^ f^^^ ^^g ^^ fi,.g garload lots, 



the fulsome complimemt or mere citation of ^^jg yg^j. ^i^g cherry River Boom & Lumber 



facts which comprise many of the biograph- Company has acquired the property of the 



ical sketches of the modern trade paper. Gauley Company in West Virginia, a descrip- 



The Record has endeavored to show that tion of which appeared in the issue of the 



there is an ethical value in these chronicles Hardwood Record of Nov. 25, and it is its 



lumbering regions of the States. Waste is 

 conspicuous from the moment the native com- 

 mences to fell the tree wilh his " bolo " until 

 it appears upon the market as lumber. 



Of the forty sawmills in Manila but three 

 (those of John Gibson, the Philippine Lum- 

 ber & Development Company and the B. W. 

 Cadwallader Company) are fairly high type 

 American steam mills, equipped with band 

 saws and other modern appliances. The 

 Manila Sawmill is equipped with a gang and 

 circular saws. Most of the other mills saw by 

 hand, or send their logs to the steam mills. 

 Before their introduction sawing prices in 

 Manila were do\ible those commanded at pres- 

 ent. The total capacity of the steam nulls 

 is about 100,000 feet per day; but since the 

 amount of timber arriving in Manila each 

 month is only a little over a million feet, it is 

 impossible to run the mills on full time, or to 

 keep up with orders. 



The native inhabitants are difficult to deal 

 with in many ways. A Filipino handler re- 

 ceives a fine shipment of logs and then spends 

 several weeks investigating the market; un- 

 til he has done so thoroughly he will not sell 

 at any price. At the end of that time, if he 

 finds a shortage of his particular kind of 

 stock, he wUl invariably raise the price, per- 

 haps as high as sixty per cent. To find com- 

 petent and reliable native labor is another 

 obstacle which confronts the mill man. It is 

 equally difficult to secure skilled help from 

 the United States. 



Not the least of the troubles which first 

 beset the pioneer lumbermen, who are now 

 successfully operating in Manila, was their 

 unfamiliarity with the Philippine woods. 

 Those of Cuba and North and Central Amer- 

 ica can not compare in refractory qualities 

 with dungon, betis and other varieties, which 

 come upon the market in comparatively large 

 quantities. After much experimenting the 

 Manila sawmills are now handling these woods 

 to their own satisfaction as well as that of 

 their customers. One foreman says that he 

 can saw the hardest and toughest of them 

 with the same saw and methods that he em- 

 ployed in the States on hard maple, and he 

 has fitted up his mill accordingly. Another 

 uses slower feed on the ordinary hardwoods, 

 while on betis and dungon he uses vertical 

 gang saws, which give satisfaction, though 

 slower results than does the band saw. 

 Another expert mill man alleges that a slow, 

 steadv feed with a baml saw is the desidera- 



Clement E. Lloyd, Jr. 



( .S'cc Portrait SupijUment.} 

 With this Christmas number of the H.^kd- 

 WOOD Record is completed its first year un- 

 der its present management, and as its 

 twentj'-fifth supplementary picture is pre- 

 sented the portrait of Clement E. Lloyd, Jr., 

 of Philadelphia, sales manager of the Cherry 



