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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A New Cincinnati Incorporation 



The latest develoiJiiiem in Ciniinniiti liiuthvood 

 circles resulting from the recent :ilisiiipiion of the 

 Farrin-Kiiin Lumber ("ompany hv the .M. 1!. l"ar- 

 lin I.umljer Company, is the Korn-l'onkling Com- 

 pan,\'. which concern will do a general harilwooil 

 distiihutinir business. The principals of the new 

 company are too well-known to need an introduc- 

 tion to the trade. 



Both Mr. Korn and .Mr. ('unklin;; sold out thi'ir 

 entire interests In the I'arrin Korn Lumber Com- 

 pany on Jan. 29, and immediately oi'-iani/.ed the 

 Korn-Conkling Company. They will make a dis- 

 tinct specialty of foreisn trade. 



The new company has purchased outright the 

 entire cut of several first-class mills, and has in 

 addition placed buyers throughout the South at 

 the principal distributing points. 



In addition to selling its own luiubcr. the com- 

 pany will be the exclusive repieseutativi' in the 

 United States of several foreign houses, and will 

 also act as purchasing agent f(U' ipiantity b\iyers 

 In this country- whose specilic reriuirements c.in 

 best be supplied througli lumber specialists. 



In addition to its trade in hardwootl lumber. 

 the company has biMomc interested in I'acilic 

 coast products, and is well iM|uippccl to handli' all 



C. !•'. KOU.X. rUKSIDF.NT TIIK Ki )l;N i (l.NK- 

 I.IXC COMl'AXV, Cl.NCI.NNATl. (1. 



the forest i)roducts growing in the T'niti-d States 

 used in fori'lgn markets. i 



Mr. Korn sailed on liar. 2 for a threi- months' 

 trip abroad. He intends to visit Europe. Asia 

 and Africa, and later will plan a trip to soiitheiii 

 America. Mr. Conkling has just returned from a 

 tour of the southern mills in which the company 

 Is Interested, and during .Mr. Korns absenci' 

 abroad will remain in charge of the company's 

 Cincinnati office. 



The principals of the ni'W Incorporation have 

 for fifteen years bein specializing In a study of 

 the foreign markets where American hardwoods 

 are sold. Their policy Is to purchase and to con- 

 solirlate at central rllstrlbuting points the output 

 of mills and make uniform grades under regis- 

 tered brands which arc standard In every leading 

 market In the world. 



Biltmore Doings for January 

 Advlcis from the lilltmore I'orest School, still 

 in winter rjunrters In (.iermany, state that much 

 of Interest was observed b.v the students (hiring 

 .lantniry. They took a numbet- of Instructive 

 excursions during the month, of which the visit 

 to the natural S4'ed n'Renerallon of short leaf 

 piDC near Ysenburg was especially inleri'Sting. 

 The ravages of the June hug grub several .vears 



ago rendered it impossible to plant pine seedlings 

 in the open, and as a last resort, the experiment 

 of self-sown seed regeneraticui was tried. In a 

 trip to the white pine forests at Trippstadt the 

 school was enabled to view an excellent natural 

 second growth of white pine. This area is of 

 a considerable extent, and surrounds a plantation 

 of white pine set out a hundred and twenty years 

 ago. the oldest plantation in the world. 



Interesting studies were uia<h' af parallel plan- 

 tations of the IMiuis sylvestris (Scotch pine) now 

 nine years old. made by the sei'ds of this one 

 species obtained from Ilung.-iry. Kussia. southern 

 Krance. iielglum and (lermany. 



During. the latter part of January the students 

 studied f<irest management at Caildorf. and were 

 interested in the provisions made in planting 

 with regard to storm directions, and the exi- 

 gencies of speedy seeding. 



(_terman methods of logging provctl interesting 

 to the students, particularly to tree-felling nui- 

 chines exhibited near Liarmstadt. These machines 

 are intended for pushing the tree over, roots, 

 slump and all \ty means of pressure applied \\iiii 

 long rods from hand levers or hydraulic force. 



The last day in. January the students visited 

 the wood-working machinery plant of Schmaltz 

 r.i-others, where they were given every oppor- 

 tunity to observe the essential difFi-riMices between 

 the (ierman methods of wood wcu-king and those 

 iu vogue in our own cotintry. 



The sdiool sails froin Rotterdam on March It; 

 on the Holland .\mericau liner. New Amsterdam. 



Grand Rapids Lumbermen Meet 



T\\e monthly dinner and meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Asso<-iatiou of Grand liapids was held 

 on .March 1. at the Hotel I'antlind. with forty 

 memi)ei-s and guests present. Chas. Dregge was 

 (ailed upon to act as toastmaster and did so in a 

 most able manner. Otis A. I-'elgei- of the Kelger 

 Lumber & Timber Company, extended the warmest 

 greetings of local lumbermen to the visitors and 

 happy responses were madi- by Itruce Odell of 

 the Cummer-Dlggins Company. Cadillac. Alfred 

 Newark of the Cadillac Handle Company. Morris 

 Thomas of Cobbs & Mitchell. Inc.. and the Mit 

 chell Brothers Company. Cadillac, J. C. Knox, 

 secretary of the Michigan Hardwood Manul'ac 

 turers' Association, and K. M. Holland of tin- 

 Stearns Salt & Lumber Company. Liidington. 

 Trattic Manager Ewing called jiltenlion to the 

 luilling-in-transit hearing, to be held bef4)i-e the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington. 

 March '28, and advised that a well informed 

 body of Mit'hi.gaii lumbermen be on hand ready 

 to explain the situation in this sl;ite. 



New Southern Lumber Operation 



The (irandin l.uiulii'r Cnmpany is the name of 

 a new <M)rporaliiui r>\vning about (Jtt.lHMt acres 

 of tlmberlands in Wilkes. Waittauga ami Cald 

 well counties, X. C, and will build a mod- 

 I'rn plant (m its holdings, to consist of a two- 

 band and resaw mill, dr.v-kilns, planing mill and 

 box factory, etc. The company's timber hold- 

 ings are estimated at about 700.000.000 feet of 

 white pine, yellow poplar, oak, hemlock, chest- 

 nut and miscellaneous h!irdwo<tds. 



The president of the company is W. J. Craii- 

 din of Tidlonte. I'a. ; vice-president, .1. M. Has- 

 tings of ritlshurgh: treasurer, .M. K. .McMulIln 

 of I'lttsburgh : secretary, ti. .M. (ir.indin of 

 Tidlonte. Mr. tlrandln Is an exiierlenced I'enn- 

 sylvania sawmill operator, and Mr. Hastings Is 

 well known as a successful lumbennan. The 

 other officers of the company are lui'u of well- 

 established reputations and wldc> expirii'nce. 



Thi' capital stock of the company authcul/ed 

 and Issued is nearly *2.iioo.<i"0. The bond Issue 

 on the comiiany's properly of .f'2,oiMi.(ii«i was 

 recently handled thriuigh the Chicago house of 

 Clark L. roob> & C<j.. of which ? l.tiOO.iiOO has 

 been issued. 



The company has Incorporated a railroad 

 known as the Wautnugn Kallway Company, and 

 Is construiting a standaril gauge railroad be- 



tween North Wilkesboro, X. C, on the Southern 

 Hallway system and Leuoir. X. C. on the Caro- 

 lina & Xiirtliwestern Railroad, and Uiitler. Tenu., 

 im the Virginia & Soutliwestern Railroad. This 

 road will intersect the timber Jioldings of the 

 fjrandin Lumber Company, and will be built 

 in a substantial manner. 



Wood Using Industries of Alabama 



The thirteenth census of the I'nited States 

 covering lOOO. issui'd by the Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor, states that the growth of manu- 

 factures in .-Vlabama during the last thirty years 

 lias been largely due to the development of rich 

 mineral resources, particularly iu the northern 

 part of the state known as the Birmingham dis- 

 trict. At the same time the great abundance of 

 available coal and extensive forest resoiirces liave 

 given a mitrked impetus to wood manufacturing , 

 industries. The total value of all manufactured 

 products increased during this period from $13.- 

 ."ilKJ.OOII to .1!H.").962.000. 



The nuinbi-r of establishments manufacturing 

 IiitiihcL- and timber products operating in Alabama 

 in I'JOO was l.Slit. which turned out products to 

 the value of .i;2li.li."'iS.OOO. To this value of raw 

 material proiliiccd was added a A-aliie by inahu 



F. A CONKI.INt;. SILCKK I'AKY lltKASFRER 



THE KIIRN-COXKLIXtJ CU.Ml'AXY. 



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facture of .| 10,(1 L'{,000. The percentage of In- 

 <i'ease in the value of products from IS!);) to 1904 

 was .'ST.O per cent iu lumber and timber products 

 and from 1904 to 1909. 42.0 iter cent. 



Classifications of lumber and timber products 

 includes besides sawmills and timber camps, 

 planing mills and wooden box factories. In 1909 

 the lumber industry was the most important sin- 

 gle Industry in the state from the viewpoint of 

 the valtie of products, the value added by manu- 

 facture and numl)er of wage earners employed, 

 there being 2-',4tl9 iMnployes of this single Indus- 

 try in that yi'ar. This repri'siuils lil.l per cent 

 ni' the total average number of wage earners In 

 the state, and the value of products represented 

 17.9 per cent and the value added by manufacture 

 '27. 1 per cent. The llgtires show that during the 

 last seven months of the year thi'i'e was a steady 

 liK-rease In the number of employes engaged in 

 the manufacture of lumber and timber products. 



The total fpuinllty of lumber sawed increased 

 from year to year, the total for l!li>9 being 1.091,- 

 tail.OOO fi.et as compared with l.l01.:i.Mi.O0O feet 

 In IS!19. Velhiw pine formed SO.l per cent of the 

 cut In liant. There was also a considerable In- 

 crease In till' production of lath, but (be shingle 

 product fi'll oil' about 20,000.009 during the ton 

 years. 



