November 25, 1916 



wj Indiana Still Produces Real Timber ^w 



Fifty-six hundred forked-leaf white oak logs, averaging pretty 

 close to four inches at the butt — 18,000 feet of forked-leaf white 

 oak to the acre, and all in Indiana. This sounds like a myth, 

 perhaps, and the editor of Hakdwood Record thought it was until 

 he saw the trees and saw the logs, and is herewith showing, for the 

 benefit of the dubious, exact 

 proof recorded with the cam- 

 era, showing things as they 

 were shown to him. 



Dropping in at the J. V. 

 Stimson office at Hunting- 

 burg, Ind., a week or so ago, 

 I was greeted very pleasantly 

 by Fred, son of "J. V.," who 

 in a rather impetuous manner 

 told me he was going to run 

 me out into the country 

 eleven miles and show me 

 something that I had never 

 seen before and probably 

 would never see again. So 

 we started through the beau- 

 tiful hilly country of Dubois 

 county, where, by the way, I 

 learned for the first time of 

 the real beauties of the Hoo- 

 sier state. Before we got 

 through, the eleven miles had 

 stretched into closer to fifteen 

 or eighteen, but at any rate 

 it didn 't take, very long to 

 reach the little German settle- 

 ment of Ferdinand. This 

 town is interesting in itself 

 in that the thrifty German 

 inhabitants locating in fertile 

 territory and through their 

 enterprise building up several 

 factories of good ]>roportions, 

 worked for a number of years 

 under the handicap of lack 

 of railroad connections. In 

 the course of time, however, 

 they were able through Ferdi- 



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TllE UEAL FOUKED-LEAF VARIETY 



nand capital alone to get the railroad to connect their town with 



Iluntingburg, the Ferdinand road having been constructed about 



eight years ago. 



It is at Ferdinand that J. V. Stimson maintains one of his big 



log yards for Indiana oak, and swinging suddenly around a corner 



of the barn, the sight spread 

 to the visitor's view is noth- 

 ing short of remarkable. 

 There is a regular lake of the 

 genuine Indiana variety of 

 forked-leaf product grown in 

 the rich soil that makes for 

 the highest quality in that 

 species — an expanse of logs 

 tiered in orderly fashion 

 three, or four, or five deep, 

 spreading out over an area 

 probably about 150 feet wide 

 and several hundred, prob- 

 ably 500 to 600 feet long. 



The photographs here show 

 some of the choicest speci- 

 mens in this remarkable yard. 

 J. V. Stimson maintains four- 

 teen mule teams on this one 

 operation and does all of his 

 own logging. He picked up 

 all these logs in a circle 

 within a radius of about ten 

 iiiUcs around Ferdinand, and 

 all were hauled by wagon to 

 the assembling point for ship- 

 ment by rail to Iluntingburg, 

 and there they now lay, a fine 

 sight for the lumber enuthsi- 

 ast — clear, big, sound logs 

 that promise a remarkable 

 texture and color. 



But this isn't the only re- 

 sources for this kind of tim- 

 ber. There are a couple of 

 pictures on these two pages 

 illustrating some of the 

 standing trees. These are on 



FOnKEI) LEAF WHITE OAK STANDJNi: ON Til 

 DESCRIBED IN THE STORY 



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