November 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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a tract of several hundred acres on a farm which was picked up m 

 a rather interesting manner a few weeks ago. One of the German 

 farmers a few miles out of Huntingburg (just the other side of 

 Jasper) suddeniy decided that he wanted to move down to Louis- 

 ville. So he rented a house, put in his application for street car 

 conductor, got ready to ship his goods — then remembered that he 

 hadn 't sold his farm. The news that it was for sale soon reached 

 Fred Stimson's ears and negotiations were immediately inaugurated, 

 with the result that within 

 three or four days' time the 

 entire property had changed 

 hands, and the Stinison log- 

 ging crews were in the woods 

 as photographed in the ac- 

 companying pictures. 



If anybody doubts that 

 'there still are real quantities 

 of Ind-.ana white oak, he has 

 just to go about among the 

 mills manufacturing in that 

 state, though it is true that 

 real stands of the virgin 

 timber are not so plentiful. 

 But the clean, bold, tall, 

 straight trees, a couple of 

 specimens of which are 

 shown, certainly prove that 

 the virgin stand is not en- 

 tirely gone. 



In going back to the Hunt- 

 ingburg plant, there is cer- 

 tainly a lot of remarkably 

 fine Indiana oak on sticks. 

 Alley after alley is piled in 

 proper lengths and assort- 

 ments, but Mr. Stimson told 

 me- there is very little dry 

 stock right now, although 

 there will be some coming 

 along in the very near future. 

 Shipments have been so ac- 

 tive that the dry lumber has 

 been moving out almost as 

 fast as it became ready for 

 shipment. 



The problem of logging 

 this timber is an interesting 



THE KIND OF 



one, that is, it is interesting to almost anybody except the man 

 who must pay the freight, because it is the uphill and down dale 

 proposition with wagon haul behind long-eared, hungry-looking 

 mules. On a product further from market than the Indiana oak, 

 and of less actual value, the cost in such a hilly country would be 

 prohibitive. 



It is a real man-sized job to supply a mill in that country with 

 enough logs, especially when you are working with that hard- 



S. headed element of farmers 



which has built up south cen- 

 tral Indiana. When you have 

 to go out to buy your logs be- 

 fore breakfast, send out your 

 team before lunch, and put 

 your logs on the mill deck 

 before dinner, you have to 

 hustle to keep the stuff grind- 

 ing out. But J. V. Stimson 

 has been operating there for 

 the past twenty-two years and 

 it looks like he is going to 

 keep on for some time. Every 

 once in a while it appeared 

 that the end had about ar- 

 rived, but always new timber 

 turned up and there seems to 

 be an elastic quality about the 

 woods in Indiana, which 

 makes possible year after 

 year of operation. 



For the past few years 

 Fred Stimson has operated 

 the Huntingburg, Ind., end, 

 while his brother, Robert C. 

 Stimson, has taken charge of 

 the big Stimson Veneer & 

 Lumber Company plant' at 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



The Stimson interests now 

 comprise the J. V. Stimson 

 plant at Huntingburg, Ind., 

 the Stimson Veneer & Lumber 

 Company and the J. V. Stim- 

 son Hardwood Company, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., and the J. V. 

 Stimson Hardwood Company 

 at Helena, Ark. — Editor. 



INDIANA WHITE OAK THAT YOU READ ABOUT- 

 THE REAL FORKED-LEAF VARIETY 



SHOWING HALF OF THE YARD ON WHICH FIFTY-SIX LOGS LIKE 

 THESE WERE PILED ALL AT ONE TIME 



V SM\LL SECTION OF THE SAME YARD, NOTE THE SIZE AND 

 CLEANLINESS OF THESE LOGS 



