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Irregular in size and shape than a short one. permitting more vacant 

 space between the pieces. 



Some cordwood cutters are experts in building the riclis in a way to 

 increase the air spaces. The tricl; is worked by laying crooked sticks 

 among the straight ones to hold them as far apart as possible. The 

 quantity ot real wood in a cord varies greatly. It has been figured out 

 that it the rick is of four-foot sticks it contains from sixt.v-tour to eighty- 

 nine cubic feet of real wood, depending on the size and shape of the 

 pieces : if the sticks are eight feet long, the rick contains from fifty-nine 

 to eighty-four cubic feet ; if twelve-foot sticks are used, there are from 

 fifty-four to seventy-eight cubic feet in a cord. If the sticks are only 

 two feet long a cord contains from sixty-five to ninety-one cubic feet. 



It is thus apparent that the interests of the cutter and the buyer of 

 cordwood conflict. It the cutter reduces the wood to short lengths, he 

 not only expends more work on it, but it takes more wood to make a 

 cord. ITe may be compensated to some extent if he splits the wood in 

 small pieces, for a cord of large sticks makes considerably more than a 

 cord if split small ; or, a cord of small round poles contains less real 

 wood than a cord of the same shaped sticks of greater diameter. The 

 old saying that there are tricks in all trades holds as true of cordwood 

 cutting as of an.vthing else. 



Tanbark buyers often purchase their commodity by weight, though the 

 bark is ricked in cords ; hut even then the bu.ver may be cheated because 

 ho cannot always determine how much of the last shower of rain is still 

 absorbed iu the bark, or how many buckets of water the teamster threw 

 on his load of bark as he forded the creek on his way to the scales to 

 have the bark weighed preparatory to selling it. 



Timberland Purchase 



The H. P. Wyman Lumber Company, a recently organized concern at 

 Bristol, Va.-Tenn., a short time ago purchased a considerable tract ot 

 hardwood timber near Bigstone Gap, Va. It is planned to erect mills 

 immediatel.v and to start operations as soon as they are completed. This 

 company was organized by H. P. Wyman of the Bristol Door & Lumber 

 Company. It is capitalized at .');24,000. 



Important If True 



It often happens that not only the lay press, but individuals unfamiliar 

 with lumber affairs, in discussing them fall into grievous errors, and 

 statements are often promulgated that are highly ridiculous. 



In the last few divys a large timber bond house of Chicago has issued 

 magazine advertisements covering a bond issue that is selling on a west- 

 ern lumber enterprise. In this announcement is involved the statement 

 that the concern, in addition to its lumber output, produces five hundred 

 thousand "feet" of shingles, daily. The obvious intention of the an- 

 nouncement is that five hundred thousand pieces of shingles are daily 

 manufactured. 



The Bloomington. 111.. Pantograph of March 14 carries an article on 

 veneer cutting, which while not intended as humorous might so be con- 

 sidered, as every veneer manufacturer and consumer will recognize the 

 ridiculous, not to mention the untruthful, character of the statements 

 involved. 



The article is quoted in full : 



In no form is modern machinery more wonderful than in that employed 

 to cut huge blocks of most valuable woods in thin sections or "slices." 

 to be used by cabinet makers and others as veneers. Deep cutting 

 blades, almost as thin throughout as paper — iu order to avoid waste — 

 cut as ma,ny as thirty beautiful sections at one stroke, the hard wood, 

 often seasoned for ye'ars. bein^i severed just as though it were cheese, 

 and the sections being, if necessary, so thin that they resemble tissue 

 paper. 



In some cases the wood has been buried in mud of a peculiar kind for 

 over twenty years and in others it represents the whole seasoned stock 

 of the particular wood existing either here or abroad, for "corners" in 

 valuable woods are quite common. A certain rare wood came into fashion 

 a year or two back aud one astute speculator bought up the whole avail- 

 able seasoned stock of the world. Cabinet makers who had entered into 

 contracts in regard to it had to pay famine prices and were compelled 

 to buy twenty times more than they actually required or liave none at all. 



Crown Motor Car Company Organized at Louisville 



The Crown Motor Car Company is the style of a new Incorporation 

 which will start business at Louisville for the manufacture of moderate- 

 priced automobiles. The company has an authorized capital stock of 

 $500,000. It is planned to manufacture a cheap two-passenger runabout 

 which will retail at .Itii.iii. 



Eucalyptus Growers Organize 



At a meeting held in Los Angeles, Cal., on .\pril 22, representative 

 eucalyptus growers, dealers and manufacturers of that city organized 

 into the Eucalyptus Hardwood Association of California. The object of 

 the association, as stated in the constitution, is to foster and encourage 

 the growing of eucalyptus timber, to stimulate the manufacture and use 

 of eucalyptus products and by-products, to furnish authentic information 

 regarding eucalyptus and to protect both its memlwrs and the public 

 from dishonest dealers in eucalyptus investments. As to the member- 

 ship, the constitution provides that any reputable person, firm or cor 

 poration owning laud planted or about to be planted in i^ucalyptus, or 

 engaged in the manufacture, buying or selling end of the eucalyptus busi- 

 ness, is r-ligible. 



Those present elected as officers ; L. M. Pratt, president ; F. S. Church- 

 hill, first vici -president : C. F. Cook, second vice-president : C. A. McWil- 

 lianis, secretary : Theodore B. Comstock, treasurer. 



A Half of New York State Better Adapted to Forestry Than to 



Agriculture 



The State College of Forestry at Syracuse has been conducting in 

 co-operation with the United States Forest Service a careful study of the 

 wood-working industries of New York. In connection with the study of 

 the woods used in our Industries, their sources and methods of more 

 complete utilization, the experts of the college have been reporting on 

 forest conditions in counties throughout the state. 



Reports sent to the State College of Forestry by its field men show 

 that the figures given out by the last census of New York, while fairly 

 correct, are not commonly understood or appreciated. The census reports 

 show that out of the 34 millions of acres in the state but 22 millions are 

 enclosed within farms. This leaves an area of 12 million acres partly 

 in forests and partly as idle land. This vast area is equal to all of 

 Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts and forty miles north in 

 Vermont and New Hampshire or all of New York north of the New York 

 Central railroad. 



The census reports show further that of the 22 millions of acres 

 enclosed within farms but 15 million are actually In .agricultural crops. 

 This means that there is an area the size of Massachusetts enclosed 

 within the farms of the state operated without profit. The farmers of the 

 state are losing a very large sum of money by not getting a reasonable 

 income from this great area. Lands in Germany and Austria not as 

 well adapted to the growth of forests as the idle lands within our farms 

 are producing as high as $2.50 to $5 per acre per year, or from two 

 and one-half to three per cent compound interest. This same income can 

 be gotten from idle lands in New York. 



New York is a great agricultural state : it promises to be an even 

 greater forest state because conditions are very favorable to the growth 

 of foi-ests and there are few states in the Union with better market 

 facilities. It seems both unreasonable and unbusiness-like to allow from 

 12 to 16 millions of dollars to be sent out of the state each year for 

 wood to l)e used in our industries when our idle lands could be made 

 to produce easily and annually as high as $2 to .$3 per acre per year 

 under proper forest management. 



"Mahogany" from the Fiji Islands 

 A recent shipment was received at Portland, Ore., of 130,000 feet of 

 alleged South Sea Island mahogany from the Fijis. The timber was 

 brought in on a schooner which completed the passage in sixty-four days. 

 The load was made up of 570 so-called mahogany logs and in addition 

 612 pieces ef oak timber. It is the first cargo of this sort ever landed, at 

 Portland, and is consigned to the Emerson Hardwood Company for con- 

 version Into cabinet work. 



Some Valuable Suggestions on Bond Issues 

 F. A. Brewer & Co., bankers. Commercial National Bank building, 

 Chicago, have just issued an extraordinary pamphlet describing the method 

 employed by this concern in financing lumber and timber companies. The 

 pamphlet commands attention by virtue of its concise analysis of the 

 factors governing in bond issues. It maintains that successful operation 

 must have a proportionate balance betweeu the various factors entering 

 into the entire proposition. The pamphlet states that the ratio between 

 the cost of mill and other manufacturing facilities on the one hand and 

 timber on the other varies from one to five to one to twenty. The 

 pamphlet further maintains that if an adequate supply of timber is not 

 secured at the start of an operation, the way to a successful conclusion 

 has not been paved, .\fter these salient statements, the pamphlet goes 

 on to describe the Brewer method of financing timber operations, touch- 

 ing on the distriI)ution of financial load, the payment of timber as 

 utilized, the method for securing bond issues, which subject is divided 

 into the subheads "loan," "securit.v," "fire risk," "logging." "water 

 rights," "transportation," "market," "capital stock," "resources and lia- 

 bilities," "officers," and "references." 



Suggestion for Tariff Regulators 



The ability of American forest workers to compete with those of some 

 eastern countries ma.v well be questioned in view of a recent report by 

 U. S. Consul John II. Snodgrass, at Moscow, Russia, that the "seg" 

 laborers in that country work thirteen or fourteen hours a day for three 

 and one-half cents. Seg is a product made from the bark of the bass- 

 wood tree and is used for cordage. The peasants gather the bark in 

 season, and prepare it for market iu winter when there is little outdoor 

 work to lie done. F"ortunately. the mauufactured product does not come 

 in direct competition with anything manufactured in the United States ; 

 but the fact that forest products are put on the market by men who work 

 for three and one-half cents a day contains a suggestion worthy of con- 

 sideration by those who are willing to break down tariff walls without 

 knowing exactly what lies on the other side. 



Reorganization of Bayou Land and Lumber Company 



The IViyou Land and Lumber Company, with offices in the Ncave build- 

 ing. Cincinnati, ( ).. and mills at Mississippi and Louisiana points, has just 

 perfected its rearrangement made necessary by the death of its president. 

 Clifford S. Walker, which occurred several months ago. The concern will 

 be under the same management as before, with an increased capital stocit 

 from ,f25,000 to .|50,000, all paid in. Fred K. Conn is the new presi- 

 dent, George W. Hand, vice-president, and F. E. Linz, secretary and 

 treasurer. All of these gentlemen have been active in the conduction of 



