KUAETZKR WOOD STKAMING I'REPARATOR AT PLANT OF SALINE RIVEI! ilAKDWOOD COMrANY. TINE HH TE, AHK. 



Scientific Lumber Production 



It is held as a general proposition tliat in all chief eoramercial 

 pnrsuits, lumber production is conducted on a less scientific basis and 

 with less efficiency than nearly any other line. Outside of the intro- 

 duction of the band saw, in lieu of the circular, and steam skidding 

 and loading apparatus in place of the live stock employed at an 

 earlier date, there lias been comparatively little improvement in 

 methods of logging, lumber manufacture, handling and sales methoils 

 for many years. 



To produce lumber im an absolutely scientific basis is a matter of 

 extreme difficulty, and is practically impossible from the fact that 

 no two forest areas and not even two trees are alike. Every new 

 logging operation is a new )iroposition, and individual methods have 

 to be employed in each to attain the best results. There is, however, 

 a possibility of securing an appro.ximation of scientific results in 



lumber manufacture, handling and seasoning after the logs are deliv- 

 ered to railroad or mill, and it is to this end that the Saline Kiver 

 Hardwood Company, Pine Bluff, Ark., has made a serious attempt in 

 its recently completed equipment. 



The Saline River H-.irdwuod Company is an allied house of that 

 foremost lung ;ind short leaf yellow pine manufacturing institution, 

 the Long-Bell Lumber Company of Kansas City, Mo. For years this 

 company, among other operations, has manufactured a large quantity 

 of short leaf pine through its Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber Com- 

 pany's plant at Pine Bluff, and the new mill of the Saline River 

 Hardwood Company adjoins this institution, and the logging opera- 

 tions of both from the woods to the mills are carried on jointly. 



It was the aim of the jirincipals of this great house in starting in 

 hardwood m.anufacture to secure the very best possible hardwood 



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GEXERAL OFFICE SALINE RIVER HARDWOOD COMPANY. 

 PINE BLUFF, ARK. 



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