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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



advantages of sticking tlieir lumber prop- 

 ei'ly, ana keeping the piles -nfU covered. 

 We have just unloaded a car of 1-inch 

 quartered oak, that has been on sticks one 

 year; it was stuck with green edgings 3 

 inches to 5 inches wide, to say notliing 

 about kinks inumcrable: nearly every 

 piece was dozed or stained in % inch to Vi 

 inch; also a car of 2-iuch maple; the nar- 

 row plank was used for sticks and the 

 value of the lumber reduced at least $5 per 

 thousand feet. Every manufacturer can 

 without much trouble have dry sticks. We 

 use them Tsx%-inch and nothing over 5 

 feet long. At the present price of hard- 

 wood lumber It pays to take care of it as 

 never before, and it costs no more to han- 

 dle it right than wrong. We have always 

 taught our men that the same rules as re- 

 gard neatness and care apply as much to 

 a lumber yard as to the largest and best 

 dry goods store. Many of the manufac- 

 turers understand this, and their lumber 

 sells itself at the top price. We do not 

 believe it is good business judgment to 

 pay $.30 to $C0 dollars per thousand feet 

 for lumber, and ^SIO to .f20 freight, and roll 

 it in the mud, or let the sun or rain spoil 

 it; neither is it good judgment to manu- 

 facture good logs into poor lumber, and 

 stick it badly or leave it in the sun to 

 warp and twist, and again, there is no sense 

 in making lumber 4 to 10 inches longer than 

 is necessary. Tn-elve feet one inch is as 

 good as 12 feet C inches, and the extra 

 freight at 25 to 40 cents per hundred 

 pounds is considerable; and again, don't 

 mix in 25 per cent of lumber thirty days 

 old with stock six or eight months old; it 

 makes lots of ti-ouble for the retailer who 

 kiln dries it. If it is necessary to put it in 

 to All a car, keep it separate, and say so 

 in the invoice. You will lose nothing in 

 the long run, and again get your lumber 

 on sticks as quick as possible after it is 

 sawed. Every thousand pounds of water 

 you can get out of it means two to four 

 dollars saved to you or the buyer. The 

 dealer in the East has to pay too much 

 ground rent, insurance and taxes to put 

 all his lumber on sticks and hold it until 

 it is dry enough to kiln dry, or sell it to 

 others to do the same thing. To a large 

 number of saw mill men this advice is not 

 necessary; they know, practice and profit 

 by it, but a very large amount of lumber 

 comes to this and other markets that shows 

 plainly enough carelessness and ignorance 

 in sawing and handling, and the owners 

 suffer accordingly. If any of your readers 

 visit the East, we most respectfully ask 

 them to visit our yard (223 to 249 Bridge 

 street, East Cambridge, Mass.) and we 

 will show them that we practice what we 

 preach. JOHN M. WOODS & CO. 



IN MEMPHIS CIRCLES. 



There is hardly any need to say. for it 

 has been said so often before, that Mem- 

 phis is the gi-eatest central marlcet in the 

 liardwood producing country to-day. l>ut 

 it has not yet been said, or at least not so 

 often, that she is just at the beginning. 

 Since the beginning of this year the num- 

 ber of institutions engaged strictly in the 

 manufacturing and marketing of hard- 

 woods has increased to such an extent that 

 simple addition would be too slow a 

 process to arrive at the result. 



In comparing them — but comparisons 

 are odious. There is not one of them, 

 though, that doesn't have a good insight 

 into their business and are forever on the 

 alert. Tliey have to be that way or they 

 wouldn't last long in Memphis. 



It is not correct to say, and the infer- 

 ence is not meant, that it is a cut and 

 grab game that is played there. There 

 are no more sociable people in any line of 

 trade in any city on earth than is found 

 in the Memphis hardwood lumbermen, 

 and there is a confidential relationship 

 among them that is markedly observable; 

 an interchange of business, and inter- 

 change of ideas and information, and a 

 social relationship that gives breadth and 

 tone to the market. 



As an illustration, not so veiy long ago, 

 a certain lot of lumber was bought by one 

 arm from another and sold to another firm 

 and the difference in price between the 

 original seller and the tinal buyer was 

 .?S per thousand feet. They believe in 

 helping each other out in that way. 



Seriously speaking, and as a matter bf 

 fact, perhaps, it is astute reasoning — this 

 idea of boosting your neighbor, of letting 

 down the bars and inviting others into 

 the field. Competition gives life and life 

 is everything. 



And finally, not to get too personal, a 

 gi'eat many of the Memphis hardwood 

 lumbermen are represented in the adver- 

 tising pages of the Record. Look them 

 up and take a shot at the biggest and best 

 market in the country. 



The Delphi Lumber Company's planing 

 mill was destroyed by fire recently, to- 

 gether with a large amount of finished 

 product. The loss is e.stimated at $15,000. 



FROM THE HUNTING GROUNDS. 



Friend Kimball: — If you will look up 

 Eagle Station, on the map of Colorado, 

 you will see that there Is a creek joins 

 the Eagle River from the south. Eigh- 

 teen miles up this creek is a camp, con- 

 sisting of a large tent and the usual camp 

 equipment. This is my present temporary 

 home, with a small party of friends. The 

 location is a spruce and aspen gi-ove, with 

 high mountains near on both sides of a 

 little valley, about one and one-half 

 miles nearer the clouds than Chicago. 

 My contract is to furnish camp with fish. 

 The other boys have contracted to bring 

 in the meat. If there was a pecuniary con- 

 sideration imposed for non-fulfilment of 

 contracts. I am afraid the meat contrac- 

 tors would go broke, as the deer and grouse 

 have not yet come down into the valley. 

 They spend the summers on the high 

 mesas — one to two thousand feet higher, 

 and do not come down until snow covers 

 their feeding ground. The boys think it 

 is too much like hard work to go up after 



them. Since being in camp the weather 

 has been fine, cool nights and warm, pleas- 

 ant days. Xo moscjuitoes or flies. As I 

 am writing this on a lemon box for a 

 desk, sitting on a cliair improvised out 

 of a half log for the seat, and a trunk 

 of a ti-ee for a back, attending to the 

 cooking of some beans, the other boys are 

 loafing around camp getting together some 

 logs for a camp fire to-night and resting 

 after a hearty dinner. Below is our to- 

 day's menu. 



Camp Tenderfoot, Rocky Mountains. Colo. 

 Thursday, September IS, 1902. 

 Soup. 

 Oxtail. "A B C" Brand. 

 Fish. 

 Brook Trout. "F. H. C." Catch. 

 Moat. 

 Pig. Cured and Smoked, "Lipton." 

 Entrees. 

 Beans. Mexican, Baked in Nature's Oven. 

 Potatoes, Coloi-ado. 

 Relishes. 

 Pickles, Jlixed. "Dinger." 

 Colorado Mountain Air. 

 Drinks. 

 Spring Water. "Nature's Best," 

 Fruit. 

 Grapes. Peaches and Pears, "Grand .Junc- 

 tion." 

 With appetites like a range steer, you 

 can guess that we made that dinner look 

 like a "mill cull." 



Much as we are enjoying our oiitiug. 

 Satiu'da.v "nill find us breaking camp, and 

 in a few days taking up our duties as 



bread winners one to mercantile life in 



a Colorado town, another to expounding 

 the gospel as laid down by ,Tohn Wesle.v, 

 and tlie writer liack at 131 Adams street. 

 With kind regards to all the boys, 



I am yours very ti'ulv. 

 September 18. 1902. " F. H. C. 



The above letter is ijerpeti'ated by F. H. 

 Cass, lumber agent, at Chicago, of the 

 C. & El. I. Ry. We have learned since 

 that Mr. Cass has reached Chicago and is 

 having some difficulty in explaining to his 

 better half how it was that his baggage 

 came in two days in advance of his own 

 arrival. 



FORESTRY ON WEST POINT 

 GROUNDS. 



Washington. September 5. 1902. 



The United States Military Academy at 

 West Point will practice some system of 

 forestry on 2,500 acres of hardwood timber- 

 land near the academy. These grounds 

 have been used as a park, and the inten- 

 tion of the Secretary of War. who has 

 applied to the Bureau of Forestry for ad- 

 vice in managing them, is to continue to 

 use them for this purpose, but to cut from 

 them also a regular supply of fuel, A 

 working plan for the management of the 

 land will be made by Frederick E. 01m- 

 stead, of the Bureau of Forestry, and an 

 inspector will be appointed, who will see 

 to it that cuttings are made according to 

 Mr. Olmstead's plan, without spoiling the 

 appearance of the woods. 



All the milltai-y wood reservations near 

 the forts in the West are to be managed 

 according to plans prepared by the Bureau 

 of Forestry. The Secretary "of War has 

 asketl for advice in making cuttings on 

 these lands, and the plans will be made 

 as soon as possible. The reservations com- 

 prise about 117,000 acres. 



The Three States Lumber Company of 

 Cairo, III., have arranged to start a yard 

 in Memphis about the first of the vear. 



