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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Wnehan Lumber Company a continuance of the 

 valued patronage it has enjoyed in the past and 

 assure prompt execution of all orders placed with 

 the r^inclian liUmher Company. 



The Linehan Lumber Company specializes in 

 soft yellow pine, poplar, plain and quartered oak, 

 chestnut, basswood, red gum, spruce, hemlock, 

 hardwood nooring and oak timbers and planking. 



The fine record that the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany has made in the past will surely be aug- 

 mented by its direct repre.sentatives in the New 

 York market, as for years it has enjoyed a fine 

 eastern trade. 



A Fine Bunch of Timlier 



.John C. Spry, the well-known land and tim- 

 berland dealer at 1230 Corn Exchange Bank 

 building, Chicago, supplies the Record with a 

 schedule of the timber growing on 552 acres of 

 Arkansas land owned by him. The table show- 

 ing the various types of growth and the diameter 

 in inches is herewith appended : 



No. No. No. No. No. No. 

 In. trees, trees, trees, trees, trees, trees, 



diam. wh. oak red oak gum hickory ash elm 



14 202 190 151 240 140 47 



16 547 500 4.?3 313 126 S6 



1,S 698 522 651 244 43 64 



20 380 308 353 175 14 36 



22 .360 245 349 129 14 10 



24 671 273 401 174 5 7 



26 658 145 223 98 5 6 



28 586 204 200 92 5 1 



30 551 104 183 51 



32 584 53 188 33 



34 412 2S 52 34 



36 294 40 60 13 



38 230 21 15 8 .... 



40 144 10 12 4 



42 53 7 5 1 



44 87 7 5 



46 3 



48 109 8 3 1 



i50 20 7 2 



52 12 .. 1 



54 19 4 1 



.-■6 10 1 1 



According to the tables furnished by the 

 United Slates Bureau of Forestry, these trees 

 show upwards of 5,000,000 feet, which marks 

 them as one of the most remarkable little blocks 

 of hardwood timber of its size in the United 

 States. 



Mr. Spry regards it as the finest piece of tim- 

 ber that he has ever seen, and he pretty nearly 

 knows what he is talking about when he dis- 

 cusses timber tracts. 



Mr. Spry for some years has been interested 

 very heavily in Arkansas timber, and this is only 

 a minor piece of several large holdings that he 

 possesses in that state. 



Successors to Stiideljaker AutomolJile Com- 

 pany 



News has been received to the effect that a 

 new corporation has been formed io purchase the 

 property and assets of the Studebaker Brothers 

 Manufacturing Company of South Bend, Ind., 

 and the E. M. F. Automobile Company of Detroit. 

 The Studebaker corporation had an authorized 

 capital of $45,000,000. The purchase involved 

 $7,447,253 in cash, while Ihe ]n-operIy purchased 

 will be paid for in stock of the Studebaker cor- 

 poration, $43,589,000 at par. of which $13,500,- 

 000 is preferred and .'«29,!)!)S,O0O is common. The 

 incorporators of record are M. Gregg Lattimer, 

 John O. Marsh of New York, and .John P.. Tur- 

 ner of Basking, N. ,T. 



Eastern Siberia Lumljer 



What few timber concerns (here are in eastern 

 Siberia are engaged in foreign trade operating 

 only on the sea-coast, notwithstanding the fact 

 that the coast has several bays and good sized 

 navigable rivers, backed with large forests. 



The .\mur river system with its valleys con- 

 tains the best areas of timber. The timber is 

 very thin along the coast, a great deal of it 

 being fog beaten for some distance inward, and 

 would not pay for large undertakings. 



The amount of timber exported in the Armur 

 I'iver system has been very liberal. It has only 



been in the last three or four years that any 

 shipping to speak of has been done. The follow- 

 ing statistics were taken : 



In 1905, 106,000 logs. 



In lf)07, 480,000 logs. 



In 1909, 750,000 logs. 



The most of this timber that is cut is used in 

 local markets with the exception of three, Niko- 

 laievsk. .Vmugun river and the Kisi lakes. For 

 Ihe past two years the Russian government has 

 been sending surveying crews into these vast 

 forests, but it has been slow work. The Amur 

 river system covers an area of about 2,000.000 

 square miles, but of this only 400,000 square 

 miles can roughly be estimated available for 

 timber. Local reports say that the merchantable 

 trees would average forty-five per acre, so by 

 this basis there would be 256,000,000 acres and 

 11,520,000,000 trees. The maturity of these trees 

 is 100 years, hence without diminishing the for- 

 est, 115,200,000 trees could be cut per year. The 

 navigable season of these rivers is short, being 

 generally from May to about the last of October, 



I'.arbor and 6.000 logs from Tournay bay were 

 shipped to .■Australia. The next season promises 

 a larger development, as Germany and Great 

 Britain are in the market for large contracts, 

 which total about 2,000,000 cubic feet. The pre- 

 vailing export is sawn cedar, with prices as fol- 

 lows per cubic foot : First class, 38 to 40 cents ; 

 second class, 43 cents, and third class, 23 to 25 

 cents. These prices are f. o. b. Vladivostok for 

 May to August deliveries. 



Eastern Siberia has attracted a few European 

 investors, but as yet no American timhernii'ii 

 have invested. 



I X Ii Flooring in Prominent Position 



The accompanying cut is illustrative of the 

 capitol building at Madison, Wis., which struc- 

 ture was recently finished. It is furnished 

 throughout with I X L brand of rock maple 

 flooring furnished by the Wisconsin Land & Lum- 

 ber Company of Hermansville, Mich. This floor- 

 ing is manufactured from the celebrated Lake 

 Superior rock maple, which is conceded to be 



WISCONSIN CAPITAL AT MADISON, WIS., FLOORED WITH I X L ROCK MAPLE. 



with 8,000 miles navigable and the total length 

 suitable for rafting. Because of the lack of tim- 

 iier charts, the land has to be surveyed twice, 

 first by the owner to locate good timber, and 

 second by the government before operations can 

 he started. Besides, the season is short and 

 only a four-year contract on the land, with a 

 chance of renewing for four years, is permissible, 

 which it is to be hoped will soon be changed to 

 twelve years. This and iiecause of the objec- 

 tionable clause in the law, by which a minimum 

 ■ind maximum is fixed for the cutting of logs, 

 prohibits a great deal of foreign investment. It 

 the required amount is not cut a stumpage tax 

 is charged for the full amount cut. 



The labor question is also a big factor, as the 

 law provides that all laborers shall be Russian, 

 which .greatly retards the industry, as the wages 

 of the Russians arc higher than those of laborers 

 of other classes, such as Chinese and Koreans. 



The harbor of Vladivostok has been provided 

 with fneilities for handling timber and this, com- 

 bined with the iiict that it a. through freight 

 rate wore quoted by the Chinese Eastern Railway 

 and Usstiri Railway, would soon make Vladivo- 

 stok an important shipping port. The fact that 

 the timber industry has been .given little atten- 

 tion, if any, was proved by the fact that up 

 until the year 1907 timber was imported to 

 Vladivostok. Most of the lands are in the hands 

 of the government, which has strict laws that 

 must be obeyed. Freight rates are about fifty 

 per cent too high. The reason for this is that 

 the roads arc owned by the Chinese, who an' 

 holding the rates high to protect their own lum- 

 bermen in Manchuria. 



The timber exported to Europe and Australia 

 in 1908, 1909 and 1910 was considered quite a 

 success, as 69,000 round logs from the Imperial 



Ihe hardest maple in the world. The Wisconsin 

 Land & Lumber Company owns about 2,000.- 

 1100.000 feet of this type of timber, and is also 

 in a position to furnish birch flooring and special 

 flooring of birdseye maple and cherry. It fur- 

 ther carries a complete stock of hardwood lum- 

 ber, basswood, hemlock, pine and cedar shingles, 

 posts, poles, etc. 



State Regulation to Perpetuate Supply 



With the rising tide of popular interest in for- 

 I'stry has come a strong demand for the regula- 

 Tion of private forests bj" state governments. In 

 more than one state laws have been proposed 

 aiming at the control or limitation of timber 

 cutting by land owners, by obliging them to leave 

 a certain portion of the timber standing, but so 

 far no state has actually passed any such legis- 

 lation. The utmost accomplished has been to 

 compel owners to reduce the fire risk resulting 

 from lumbering, by making proper disposition of 

 the tops and brush. 



Has the state a right to prescribe conditions 

 affecting the handling of private property, if 

 such action tends to diminish the profits and 

 increase the expenses of the owners? It has 

 this right, provided it can be shown that such 

 regulation is necessary to prevent definite dam- 

 ago to the property and welfare of others. But 

 this damage must be of a character and severity 

 that justifies the state in taking such action. 

 This principle underlies all forms of state regu- 

 lation, as factory laws, prevention of stream 

 pollution, or any law, the effect of which is to 

 force private owners to do things at their own 

 e.Kpeiise, in order that the public welfare may be 

 better safeguarded, and to do them without com- 

 pensation from the state. 



Although no laws have been passed regulating 



