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HARDWOOD RECORD 



known to the market ai-e plentiful on this grunt, 

 and tlK- finished Inmber wiil 1)6 shipped to the 

 Enroiiean and American marl;ets. Some hustling 

 yonna Americans have charge of the operations, 

 iiut the company is controlled by Dutch capital- 

 ists. 



Heretofore the logging operations in Malaysia 

 have been carried on in the most primitive man- 

 ner. The jungles of this great area, including 

 Borneo, Java. Sumatra, Celebes, New Guinea. 

 and Mala.v. with hundreds of small islands, are 

 replete with valuable hard and soft woods and 

 the world is now beginning to come to the.se 

 regions with increasing orders, so much .so th.it 

 the primitive systems of logging are gradually 

 giving way to up-to-date methods, and of th'-se 

 methods the .\merican system is far in advance, 

 and the larger companies are beg'inaing to adopt 

 onr machinery in their operations. Several large 

 Dutch mills are using it and hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars will be invested In it before 

 long. One firm is now putting up over .$100,000 

 wortli of American logging machinery to lie 

 operated in a very large concession on an island 

 seventy miles long, oft the coast of Sumatra. 



Nortli of the Malay Peninsula in Burma a 

 large logging business is done. On one large 

 concession 6,000 elephants are employed and 

 each elephant represents an invested capital ot 

 ?2,000. An .Vmerican steam logging outfit would 

 cost not much more than one elephant and would 

 do ten times the worls. Timber is dragged some- 

 times over lOO miles by elephants in the primi 

 live Burma operations. Here is a field for our 

 maehinorv. but it can only be placed there by 

 energetic' representatives who understand Uip 

 machinery and know something of cnnditimis 

 prevailing wliere it is to be used. 



Death of Father of WUliam J. Wagst.^fl 

 Samuel M. WagstaSE. pioneer lumberman of 

 Osbkosh, Wis., and father of William J. Wag- 

 staff died at his Iiome on February 6, at the 

 age of eightv-two years. The death of Mr. Wag- 

 staff removes one of the veterans of Wisconsin. 

 who came to that city when it was a mere lum- 

 be- and trading post. He was born in England, 

 near Nottingham, on December 21, 1828. He 

 started his life's work at Oshkosh as a machinist 

 and was known as an expert engine builder. 

 Incident with his other work, he carried on 

 (arming in the vicinity of Oshkosh. He is sur- 

 vived bv his son, William J. Wagstatf of Osh- 

 kosh and a daughter, Mrs. E. D. Cole, who lives 

 in Montana. The funeral was held on Wednes- 

 day following bis death and was very largely at- 

 tended. , . 

 W. J. WagstafE has the sincere sympathy of 

 the Record in the loss of his veteran fat>-er. 



Machine Gearing Made of Musili. 



The General Electric Review tells of nolv^less 

 .'ears made up of a series of disks of com- 

 pressed textile fabric that were successfully 

 applied to a motor driven punch and shear in 

 a blacksmith shop. The gears were noisy and 

 the teeth stripped off under the severe duty 

 they had to perform. A muslin pinion was 

 put on the motor shaft over a year and a half 

 a.'o. It has given no trouble and is said to 

 show no signs of wear. Several hundred of 

 these gears are now in use and the following 

 description of their construction will be of 

 general interest. 



The muslin is cut into disks, which are 

 assembled and pressed between two steel washers, 

 the whole then being securely fastened with 

 rivets or tapl>olts. The blank is next turned to 

 the proper diameter and the teeth cut in a 

 gear cutter. The gear is then soaked in a 

 good quality of machine oil. 



These pinions can be made in various forms. 

 ■of any reasonable size, and either with or with 

 out metallic centers. It is absolutely necessary, 

 however, for the shrouding to extend to the 

 full diameter of the gear. With these pinions, 

 the use of lubricants is unnecessary, as tli'- 



oil which was absorbed by the muslin in the 

 oil bath will keep the teeth of the pinion lubri- 

 cated for an indefinite length of time. In the 

 actual running of these gears they seem to take 

 a metallic coating on the teeth, which tends 

 to protect them from excessive wear from the 

 teeth of the mating gear. 



Not a Wreck. 



The accompanying photograph will un- 

 doubtedly excite the curiosity of our readers. 

 What is it? 



In explanation would state that Wm, B. Mer- 

 shon & Co., the band saw specialists of Saginaw. 

 Mich., have sent us this photograph, taken from 

 a partial consignment of weidless steel locomo- 

 tive tires which are used to form the rim of 

 lioth the upper and lower wheels of Mershon 

 band resaws. 



These rings represent an item of expense 

 which is not at once thought of by the average 

 millman. The company reports buying these 

 rings by the carload, the rings illustrated above 

 representing a part of a consignment amounting 

 lo $4,000 or $5,000. One can readily Judge the 

 amount of money which has been expended for 

 these rings during the past ten or twelve years, 

 during which time Wm. B. Mershon & Co. have 

 h"en using these rings exclusively in connection 

 with their upper wheels. This type of wheel has 



.\rgentina and is the kind mostly used in the 

 average home. 



A small amount of high-grade furniture is 

 also manufactured in the republic, for which 

 purpose some of the native hard woods are 

 employed. This is not finished with a high- 

 gloss varnish according to the method most 

 in vogue in the United States. Instead, wax 

 only is employed, ruljbed in, at cost of much 

 time and pains, by hand until a soft and velvet.v 

 appearance is obtained, far more elegant and 

 artistic, where the quality of wood and work- 

 manship is good, than a high-varnish finish. One 

 furniture house in Buenos Aires employs some 

 :.!00 men in its factory and makes furniture 

 both of the cheaper and more expensive sorts. 

 It also does a large amount of the upholstery 

 work on imported goods. Leather and other 

 upholstery material is comparatively cheap in 

 .Argentina, and by attending to this end of 

 the work itself, the house in question saves large 

 sums in customs duties. 



Imports from the United States are almost en- 

 tirely in the way of office furniture, book shelves, 

 and the like. In that field our manufacturers 

 have all but a monopoly of the trade. Argen- 

 tine furniture dealers say that in no other 

 country has the matter of oflice equipment been 

 worked out on such practical and comprehen- 

 sive lines. Roll-top desks, sectional book shelves. 



PARTIAL COXSIGN.MENT WELDLESS STEEL LOCOMOTIVE TIRES USED ON MERSHON 



BAND RESAWS 



proven so satisfactory that they propose in the 

 future to use a similar band around the lower 

 web wheels as well, and by so doing avoid all 

 possibility of a wheel bursting from any cause 

 whatever. They say it costs money, but nothing 

 is too good for Mershon customers. 



Furniture in Argentina 



(.'onslderation of the export of timber to Argen- 

 tina turns attention to the sale there of timber 

 Iiroducts, of which furniture is the most im- 

 portant. 



The import of furniture into Argentina "is 

 extensive, estimated at about half of the total 

 used in the country, and including most of the 

 more expensive sorts. The cheaper grades are 

 made largely in the country, principally from 

 iiine received from the L"nited States, as the 

 native woods of Argentina are mostly too hard 

 for working up into furniture, especially where 

 minimum cost is an object. The furniture made 

 from North American pines is not varnished, 

 but treated lightly with oil or wax, so that it 

 has almost the appearance of an unfinished arli- 

 cle. Such furniture is for sale everywhere in 



revolving bookcases, filing cabinets, and the like 

 from United States factories are all exceedingly 

 popr.lar. 



Qf course this is a business which does not 

 extend much outside the cities, and as Argentina 

 is an agricultural country, with a population of 

 only about G.000,000 inhabitants, the trade is 

 not capable of indefinite expansion except as the . 

 country grows. But new methods are every- 

 where displacing old ones in the Argentine 

 business world, and with this movement there 

 is a natural demand for up-to-date oflSce equip- 

 ment. 



With the exception of office furniture and book 

 shelves, United States manufactures are not 

 popular and do not promise to obtain much 

 foothold, unless our styles undergo considerable 

 modification or .\rgentine taste changes. At 

 present French influence is strong upon the 

 country. The demand is for ornate patterns and 

 showy upholstery in colored fabrics. Louis XV 

 types may be said best to represent the prevailing 

 tastes. Gilded furniture and pieces with elab- 

 orately carved woodwork are greatly admired. 

 The arts and crafts movement, whicli has lately 

 made great headway in the I'nited States, has 



