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This method of manufacture renders it pos- 

 sible to make a considerable quantity of 

 flooring out of common and cull lumber, and 

 when the defects are eliminated the resultant 

 product is just as valuable as though it had 

 been made out of the best quality of stock. 



Again, flooring makers are now very care- 

 fully assorting their flooring for color, for 

 grain and for surface defects. Thus a man 

 wisliing to obtain a perfect floor of an even 

 tone' of color, whether it be clear white 

 red oak or white oak, can readily secure it, 

 maple, red beech, quartered or plain sawed 

 and can purchase it at a price very much 

 lower than as though these modern methods 

 and ideas had not been put into force and 

 become acceptable to the trade. 



The hardwood flooring industry is still in 

 its infancy, although today but few people 

 who build U good house, who construct an 

 office structure or who specify the material 

 entering into a public building, would think 

 of completing their plans without specifying 

 that the floors be laid of some variety of 

 hardwood flooring. 



New Memphis Company. 



The American Hardwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, recently organized, will erect its plant in 

 North Memphis as soon as a location can be 

 decided upon. The officers and directors o£ the 

 company are Memphis people whose names 

 will afford a guarantee of its stability: they arc: 

 Dr. E. A. Xeely. president ; S. Willner. vice- 

 president, and the following board of directors ; 



F. E. .Stonebreaker, J. Applewhite. W. R. 

 Darksdale, J. W. Thompson, George Brasfleld, 



G. T. Fitzhugh and Dr. A, R. I'orter. 



.\t present the company expects to have Its 

 Memphis plant in operation in three or four 

 months. The company also contemplates oper- 

 ating subsidiary plants in other states. 



Mention has already been made regarding this 

 concern's proposition to fill wood while in the 

 rough with some chemical preparation which 

 will render the wood solid by filling up the 

 natural pores of the fiber and at the same time 

 color the grain of the wood. 



New House at Johnson City. 

 The Pinnacle Lumber Company is the name 

 of a new wholesale hardwood concern at John- 

 son City. Tcnn., made up of W. P. Perry and 

 R. R'. Piper. Mr. Perry for the past eighteen 

 years has been identified with the buying and 

 shipping of lumber in Michigan. Canada. Ten- 

 nessee and North Carolina, and more recently 

 has been associated with the Galloway-Pease 

 Company of Johnson City. He takes charge of 

 the purchases in the vicinity of Johnson City. 

 R. R. Piper, who has been employed by the 

 Galloway-Pease Company as accountant for the 

 past three years, has charge of the Johnson 

 City office. It is not the purpose of the firm 

 to run a yard, but to do a general car lot buy- 

 ing and selling business in hardwoods, white 

 pine and hemlock. 



Out of Proportion. 



The owner of a single band sawmill, in show- 

 ing me through his plant recently, called par- 

 ticular attention to his filing room and the vari- 

 ous tools and machinery therein. He said tf> 

 me, "Do you know, I think in common with 

 a good many other lumber manufacturers, I have 

 gone daffy on my expenditure in saw fitting 

 tools. The cost of this outfit represents more 

 money than did the first saw mill I owned 

 twelve years ago. This mill is cutt'ng no more 

 lumber and no better lumber than I then manu- 

 factured, and my total filing room equipment 



at that time consisted of a gummer and a 

 Hanchett swage. I think the gummer cost me 

 about $100 and the swage $25 or $30. Of course, 

 this kit of elaborate tools for a filer to tinker 

 with makes It all very pleasant for him and 

 renders his work easier, but I believe that 

 when I build another mill I will reduce the ex- 

 penditure I make in saw fitting tools about 90 

 per cent." 



The gentleman's remark called up to my mind 

 reminiscences of the Planchett Brothers, who 

 some fourteen years ago invented a little, unique, 

 adjustable saw swage, and started to manufac- 

 ture them in a small shop at Big Rapids, Mich. 

 The tool immediately found favor in the eyes 

 of saw mill men : gradually it was improved 

 and perfected : and the sales of the tool went 

 on multiplying, and it has so continued ever 

 since until up to this time more than 6.500 are 

 in use. The little shop has grown to be a big 

 factory, known as the Hanchett Swage WOrks, 

 which makes not only the original swage for 

 circular, gang and band saws, but another small 

 and effective tool for shaping the swage of teeth 

 and side dressing, which has grown to be 

 almost as popular as the original saw swage. 



The Hanchett Swage Works have an absolute 

 faith in the utility and economy of their tools, 

 and advertise in the Haedwood Record and else- 

 where that any one who is not familiar with 

 them can have them sent on thirty days' free 

 trial. The experience of the makers is that 

 very few are ever returned, but that almost 

 invariably a letter of commendation speedily ar- 

 rives, accompanied by a check. H. H. G. 



A Celebrated. Blast Grate. 



This is the time of year when millmen whose 

 boilers are not generating all the steam they 

 should or who have difficulty in disposing of 

 their refuse begin seriously to consider how 

 best to solve the problems thus presented. 



The majority of Record readers need not be 

 informed that an excellent solution consists in 

 the installation of the well-known Gordon hol- 

 low blast grate, which passed its experimental 

 stage so many years ago that there is and can 

 be no doubt as to its eflSciency and durability. 



Occasionally a person is found who appears to 



GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GR.^^TE. 

 think that a forced draft, while admittedly 

 producing the desired results, is for some mys- 

 terious reason objectionable. There is no rea- 

 son why natural draft should be superior to 

 forced draft in any particular. 



Inasmuch as the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate 

 Company of Greenville. Mich., one of the lead- 

 ing manufacturers of blast grates, edgers and 

 trimmers in the world, is usually taxed to its 

 utmost capacity, especially at this season of 

 the year, it would be well tor those contem- 

 plating the installation of a system of this 

 character to investigate without delay. 



As noted in these columns heretofore, the 

 Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company has added 

 to its facilities for the production of its ma- 

 chinery during the past year, but. on the other 

 hand, its always large business is rapidly and 

 steadily increasing, and so it would be well for 

 all intending customers to anticipate their re- 

 quirements as much as possible that they may 

 not be disappointed by delay in shipment when 

 they place their orders. 



On Circular Saws, 

 An interesting bit of trade literature has 

 been received at this office especially desei-ving 

 of mention. While each manufacturer of hard- 

 wood has more or less of a predilection as to 

 the style of saw to be used, all will appreciate 

 the paints brought forward by J. H. Miner, 

 Lumberton, Miss., in his brief article on circu- 

 lar saws. Mr. Miner, as an expert, practical 

 filer, is in position to speak with the authority 

 gained by long experience. This makes the 

 more forceful his claim that the large, thin 

 saws manufactured by him are fully warranted 

 not only in construction but to make perfect 

 lumber, cutting but little more kerf than the 

 band saw. The Hardwood Record commends to 

 its readei-s this little pamphlet, entitled "Inves- 

 tigate First." 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Lake Superior Corporation's veneer mill, 

 located at Sault Ste. Marie, will start up April 

 13. Between now and that date a number of 

 improvements will be made, including a number 

 nf new and up-to-date machines. 



The Virginia Hardwood Company of Fort 

 Smith, Ark., has been reorganized. Secretary 

 Hadder says there will be no difficulty in carry- 

 ing on the plant, and paying off all indebted- 

 ness. A number of Fort Smithi capitalists, in- 

 cluding W. J. Echols and J. T. Nelson, have 

 secured interests in the plant. 



John M. Shank of Beech Valley, Pa., has tne 

 contract for stocking the logs from the Kelly 

 tract in Cascade township for Mansel & Metzger 

 of Williamsport, Pa. The cut is over 2.000,000 

 feet, mostly hardwood. 



The Chandlerville Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of Chandlerville, 111., has been incorporated with 

 a capital of $15,000 by Albert Amaht, D. Fred- 

 erick, N. E. Mann. 



The Fearou Lumber &. Veneer Company of 

 Ironton. O., has a large contract for sawing and 

 expects to run its mill night and day from 

 now on. 



X news paragraph has it that the Chicago- 

 Texas Lumber Company, which owns 16,000 acres 

 of hardwood In the eastern part of the parish 

 of Lake Charles. Louisiana, is preparing to put 

 In a new hardwood mill on the Santa Fe, on its 

 new line from Jasper, Tex., to Ridder. A town 

 site has been platted around the mill, to be 

 called Hall Cit,v, and will be a prototype of the 

 present settlement of Merryvilie. Thus the Rev. 

 Hall will further perpetuate his name and 

 fame, in adding the name of a city and real 

 estate promotion to his hitherto variegated career 

 of preacher-lumberman. 



The annual meeting of the Jamestown (N. T.) 

 Panel & Veneer Company was held on March 4. 

 The old board of directors were re-elected. The 

 president of the company is George Noble and 

 the superintendent is Albert P. Lowell. Mr. 

 Lowell Is also manager of the plant of the com- 

 pany at Asheville. N. C. This company manu- 

 factures veneer panels and table tops, and has 

 just closed a very prosperous year. 



D. A. Stratton will soon build a new handle 

 factory at Alpena, Mich. Mr. Stratton has 

 hitherto been connected with the Lobdell-Bailev 

 Manufacturing Company at Onaway, Mich Tbs 

 new plant will manufacture handles and all 

 k'nds of turned articles. 



The Kentucky Lumber & Veneer Company of 

 Jackson, Ky., recently had a wreck on one of 

 its logging railroads, resulting In the severe in- 

 jury of Hiram Hays, a woods foreman. 



The Fort Smith, Ark., Hardwood Company 

 has selected a site for a new sawmill plant at 

 that place. 



There Is considerable white oak still owned 

 by farmers in the southern portion of the lower 

 peninsula of Michigan. Leonard Spaulding re- 

 cently sold the white oak timber on eighty acre» 

 of land neap Battle Creek for $7,500 cash, ani 



