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will be worked out in due course. The capital 

 stock of tlie Lumber Insurance Company of New 

 work will be $400,000, .surplus about .t;230.000, 

 and the reinsurance reserve on deposit at Albany 

 which will bring its gross assets in excess of 

 $1,100,000. In time the company expects to in- 

 crease its capital to $500,000 through the ac- 

 quisition of the Ohio company, which had previ- 

 ously been afQIiated with the two above mentioned 

 concerns. 



With the completion of this merger the Lum- 

 ber Insurance Company of New York will be 

 well up in the van of the average old line com- 

 panies in the matter of capital and flnancial re- 

 sources, and at the same time will be able to 

 offer very strong indemnity to policyholders in 

 the lumber and general commercial tield. 



The relation of the policyholders in the mat- 

 ter will continue as formerly, the existing poli- 

 cies outstanding in each company being con- 

 tinued until expiration without change. At the 

 expiration renewals will be issued in the Lum- 

 ber Insurance Company of New York. There 

 will be no change in the directorate of the con- 

 cern, the officers being : G. A. Mitchell of White, 

 Gratwick & Mitchell, president ; W. H. Grat- 

 wick, vice-president ; Guy White of White, Frost 

 & White, North Tonawanda, treasurer ; R. H. 

 McKelvey, New York, secretary. 



and other modern appliances. The buildings 

 are lighted throughout by electricity and the 

 plant has a daily capacity of about 80,000 feet. 



Enters Chicago Wholesale Lumber Trade 



The latest addition to the ranks of the Chi- 

 cago wholesale lumber dealers is the Luyra- 

 Foster Lumber Company, which has opened head- 

 quarters at 755 Old Colony building. I. Luyra, 

 who heads the new concern, is in charge of the 

 Chicago office, and will look after the selling 

 end of the business. He has been engaged in 

 the lumber business in Chicago for about ten 

 years, during that time owning and controlling 

 the yard at Thirteenth street and Center avenue 

 under the head of tbe I. Luyra Lumber Com- 

 pany. He still retains his interest in this con- 

 cern, although he has withdrawn from active 

 participation in the conduct of its business. 



E. L. Foster, the other member of the new 

 concern, has been engaged in the manufacture 

 of yellow pine and hardwoods in northern Michi- 

 gan for a number of .years. Mr. Foster makes 

 his home at Marquette, Mich., where he has 

 charge of the buying end of the business. 



The Luyra-Foster Lumber Company controls 

 the output of the mills of the Tula Lumber 

 Company of Tula, Mich., which is largely owned 

 by the two partners. A. .T. DeVries, a well-known 

 millman of northern Michigan, has charge of 

 the manufacturing plant at Tula. 



Lumber Trade of British Honduras 



In the Daily Consular & Trade Keports, Con- 

 sul Wm. L. Avery of Belize gave the following 

 report on the amount of dressed, rough and creo- 

 soted lumber imported into Honduras for 1010. 



The total imports into British Honduras dur- 

 ing 1910 amounted to a value of $2,819,217, 

 while those for the United States were valued at 

 $1,260,446. 



The exports to the United States were con- 

 siderably larger than those last year, the amount 

 being over $46,398 over the previous year. The 

 imports from the United Kingdom amounted to 

 $600,889. Owing to the low water in the creeks 

 and rivers, much of tlie felled maliogany re- 

 mained on tbe river banks last year, which con- 

 sequently tied up large amounts of American 

 capital. 



Von Platen Mill Starts Operation 

 The manufacturing plant of the Von Platen 

 Lumber Company at Iron Mountain, Mich., has 

 been put in operation. The mill is a frame 

 structure with concrete floors and steel roof, two 

 stories high, the buildings being 52x150 feet. 

 The engine house, which is constructed of con- 

 crete, Is 48x72 feet. When fully equipped the 

 sawmill will contain two band saws and a gang 

 with steam feed and steam set, steam log roller 



Beady to Take Care of Any Business 



Phillip Ryan, formerly of the Ryan-Stlmson 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., who re- 

 cently organized the Phillip A. Ryan Lumber 

 Company of that city, has completed his ar- 

 rangements and is now well established in his 

 new quarters. At present he has on sticks in 

 his new yard about three-quarters of a million 

 feet of high-grade slock, from whicli he can 

 meet the requirements of a diversified line of 

 buyers. Most of the stock of the old concern 

 has been disposed of and that company will 

 formally dissolve June 1. 



The principal dimensions of the Norton Tim- 

 i'Cr Company's locomotive are as follows : Cylin- 

 ders, 14x22 inches ; driving wheels, diameter, 44 

 inches ; steam pressure, 160 pounds ; wheel-base, 

 driving, 7 feet ; wheel-base, total engine, 21 feet 

 7 inches ; wheel-base, total engine and tender, 

 41 feet 11 inches; weight on driving wheels, 

 45,850 pounds ; weight total engine, 66,350 

 pounds : weight, total engine and tender. 135.000 

 pounds. 



Baldwin Locomotive for Norton Company 



The accompanying illustration represents a 

 four-coupled logging locomotive, recently built 

 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Nor- 

 ton Timber Company of Dyersburg, Teun. This 

 engine is specially suitable for service on light 

 track, where curves are sharp and frequent. The 

 front truck is center bearing and the rear truck 

 side bearing ; each is fitted with a radius bar 

 and is equalized with the adjacent pair of driv- 

 ing wheels. This arrangement provides an easy 

 riding engine, which can enter sharp curves and 

 switches with equal facility, when running in 

 either direction. At the same time, the sepa- 

 rate tender provides sufficient fuel and water 

 capacity to enable fairly long runs to be made. 



Fight Boost on Japanese Wood 



The last of the evidence in the protesi of 

 Frank B. Stone of Chicago against raising the 

 customs rate on several shiploads of railroad ties 

 imported by him from Japan, and subsequently 

 sold to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- 

 way, was given recently at the monthly hearing 

 of protests by General Appraiser C. B. McClel- 

 land of New Y'ork. The protest iuvolves the 

 extra payment of $25,000 duty. Mr. Stone's 

 case, which is in the hands of George W. Shel- 

 don & Co., customs brokers, has been argued at 

 previous hearings in New York, Chicago and 

 Los Angeles. Mr. Stone contracted with a large 

 exporting firm, with main offices at Tokio. for 

 the delivery of four shiploads of Japanese oak 

 ties, second quality, to be rebought by tbe Santa 

 Fe road. Deliveries of about half the ordtr 

 were made last summer at the port of Lo.? .•An- 

 geles. Without stating a reason, the cusloms 

 service demanded duties for this ai.iount of 

 "first" ties. 



The customs regulations provide that in such 

 a case the burden of proof Is on the import'^r. 



FOUR-COUPLED LOGGING LOCOMOTIVE BUILT BY BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA., FOR THE NORTON TIMBER COMPANY, DYERSBURG, TENN. 



Coal is used as fuel on this locomotive, and 

 the grate is composed of rocking bars, with a 

 drop-plate for dumping the fire. The furnace 

 contains a brick arch, supported on studs. The 

 smoke-box Is -extended, and is fitted with de- 

 flecting plates and netting. With this arrange- 

 ment, a straight open stack is used. 



The equipment of this engine includes com- 

 bined automatic and straight air brakes with 

 train connections. Steps are placed across the 

 front of the engine and back of the tender, and 

 the draw castings are of the three pocket type, 

 arranged to take M. C. B. couplers in the top 

 pockets. Front and back headlights are fitted ; 

 also two sand-boxes, with hand sanders. The 

 cab is roomy, with large side windows ; and as 

 the tank has a sloping back, I he enginemen have 

 a good view when running in either direction. 

 The tank capacity is 3,000 gallons of water and 

 4% tons of coal. 



Experience with this type of engine in log- 

 ging and industrial service, where the loads to 

 be hauled are comparatively light, has been ex- 

 ceedingly satisfactory. The proportion of total 

 weight carried by the driving wheels is some- 

 what greater than Is usually found in locomo- 

 tives of the well-known "American" type ; and 

 the arrangement of the trucks provides a very 

 flexible wheel-base, which is most desirable in a 

 logging engine. 



who nuist prove his right to the lower tariff, 

 lather than upon the government. As a conse- 

 quence the Chicago brokers have been forced 

 to si[bmit a mass of evidence that has occupied 

 weeks of cross-examination. 



Hardwood Distillation in 1909 



The principal woods consumed in hardwood 

 distillation are beech, birch and maple, and In 

 1909 these woods alone constituted ninety-four 

 per cent of the raw material used. Small quan- 

 tities of oak, hickory, chestnut, elm and ash 

 were also consumed. The destructive method is 

 generally employed in the process of distillation, 

 the principal products of which are charcoal, 

 crude wood alcohol and gray acetate. 



The wood distillation industry is concerned 

 with the manufacture of such products as result 

 from the heating of wood so as to produce vola- 

 tile distillates and solid residue. Two distinct 

 processes of manufacture, known respectively aa 

 the destructive process and the steam process, 

 are in general use. In the former the wood la 

 heated to such a temperature that the fibre is 

 destroyed and new products are formed. In the 

 latter the volatile substances are removed from 

 the wood by treatment with steam, which does 

 not destroy the fibres. Each process is modified 

 to some extent for special uses. 



