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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Building Operations for Fetiruary 



Kuildin;; operations for February throughout 

 U>it country, outside of New Yorl!, of the forty- 

 four cities reported by the American Contractor, 

 Cliicago, show an average of expenditure which 

 Is almost identical with that of February, 1910. 

 The ioss in jjrealer New York of nearly $7,000,- 

 OOO for February, 1911, as compared with the 

 same month of last year, reduces the equilibrium 

 to represent an aggregate loss of eighteen per 

 <'ent. The losses vary from 6 to 74 per cent. 

 iJalns of over 50 per cent were made in the 

 following cities : Baltimore. 198 per cent ; 

 ■Columbus, 151 ; Des Moines. 533 : Detroit, 183 : 

 Kuoxville, .372 ; Little Rock, 72 ; Milwaukee, 84 ; 

 Minneapolis, 228; rittsburg. 63: St. Paul. 104. 

 The particulars will be found in the following 

 table : 



Feb., Feb., 



I'lll. 1910. Percent 



City. Cost. Cost. 6n. Lss. 



Haltimore $ 1.2.')2.77i) $ 427.350 19S 



Birmingham 252.171 274.SB7 .. S 



Buffalo 240.000 536.000 . . 64 



Chattanooga 42..'iti4 48.094 . . 11 



Chicago 4.200.400 5.678,000 . . 24 



Cincinnati 702,795 540.975 29 



Cleveland 700,000 590,020 29 



Columbus 211,712 84,085 151 



Denver 397,925 592.590 . . 32 



Des Moines 412.475 65,075 533 



Detroit 2,309.400 80S.410 185 



Duluth 74.425 183.865 .. 00 



Grand Itapids 120,083 99.120 27 



Harttord 245.140 270,110 .. 11 



Kan«as City 653,610 1,155.875 .. 43 



Knoxvllle 71.144 15,047 372 



Little Rock 107,641 62,370 72 



Los Angeles 1,009,277 1,524,269 .. 33 



Louisville 256,095 31S.9S8 .. 22 



Manchester 30,500 170,300 .. 82 



Memphis 340. 120 317,900 7 



Mllnaukce 506.U7 274,156 84 



.Minneniii.lis 1,097.150 485,980 228 



Nashville 46,7:i9 75,936 . . 38 



Newark 456,580 635.890 .. 27 



New Haven 1.32,320 169,047 .. 21 



Manhattan 3,201,385 7,632,935 .. 58 



Brouklyu 1,598.400 2,319.125 .. 31 



BrortT 970,500 2,645,660 .. 63, 



New York. 5,776,285 12,597,720 . . 54 



Oklahoma City 297,450 401,482 .. 25 



■Omalia 197,900 150,825 30 



I'hilailelphla 1,912,635 2,045,075 . . 



r'lttsbuig 784,455 581,644 63 



Pn-tlanil 1.064.425 1,600,055 .. 33 



Kochester 232,925 256,697 . . 8 



St. Paul 1.111,170 643,592 104 



St. Louis 1,147,584 1,229,263 .. 



,Salt Lake City 87,700 344,100 .. 74 



Scranton 60,866 59,795 2 



.Seattle 491,245 1,353,415 .. 63 



Tacoma 120.470 131,360 . . 8 



Toledo 1.1.3,425 119.045 12 .. 



Wilkes Barre 84.702 72.713 10 



Worcester 101,005 203,054 . . .50 



T.ital $:i0.118.(i.-i0 ?37.000.700 . . 18 



How to Burn Wet or Green Sawdust and 

 Other Mill Eefuse 



There are many fuels that require forced 

 ■draft to make litem practically availalde, as 

 iiattiral draft does not cause them to burn with 

 sufficient rapidity to make steam fast enough, 

 except by putting in a prohibitive number of 

 boilers. This is especially true with sawdust. 

 bark, cliips and otlicr mill refuse which usually 

 ■come from green logs, and very frequently from 

 legs that have been a long time in tlie water. 



An etfectual remedy for this coudition is the 

 ■Gordon Hollow Blast Orate, manufactured by 

 the Cordon Hollow Ulast Grate Company of 

 ■Greenville, Mich., except for the states of Wash- 

 ington and Oregon. The I'uget Sound Machinery 

 Depot of Seattle, under license from the Gordon 

 Hollow Blast Grate Company, manufactures 

 the Gordon product for these states. 



This grate has long since passed the experi- 

 mental stage, having been on the market first 

 in its original form and then in its improved 

 form for twenty years, sind having been tested 

 under all kinds of conditions in all parts of the 

 world, so that its value is dermitely established. 

 Of the Gordon grate it can be said that ; 



First and foremost, it will produce as good 

 tesults with wet. green or frozen sawdust as 

 an ordinary draft grate gives with dry wood. 



Second, with the same fuel it will add from 

 25 to 50 per cent to the voluine of steam gen- 

 erated in a given length of time. 



Third, it gives the fireman perfect control 

 over the fire, enabling him to graduate it ac- 

 cording to the power required, and making him 

 absolutely independent of the weather. It also 

 saves labor in firing. 



Fourth, the blast keeps the grate liars cool, 

 causing them to last indefinitely, and making 

 them in the end by far the cheapest grate bars 

 of any description obtainable. 



The manufacturers, however, do not ask the 

 purchaser to take anything for granted. They 

 offer to sliip any responsible party an outfit for 

 bis furnaces or ovens on approval, he to have 

 thirty days after installation in which to test 

 it in any manner he may see fit. His decision 

 in the matter is final. If he does not consider 

 that it would pay hira to keep the outfit, he 

 is under no obli!;ation 1o do so. In case of 

 re,iection the company pays the freight lioth 

 ways. 



Where six or seven-foot stakes are re- 

 quired to load 6.000 or more a stake socket Is 

 used in place of the 20-inch malleable stake. 

 These long stakes are secured in the sockets 

 so that they may be used until they are 

 taroken, when a new one must be substituted. 

 But on the whole a great saving is accom- 

 plished, as it is a very rare occun-ence that a 

 stake is broken. The Reeves standard racks have 

 20-inch malleable stakes, which stake two 

 logs, and after over two months of severe 

 tests, they carry an average of 4.500 feet and 

 stand tlie racket. 



A Handy Log Back 



The O. F. Reeves Company of S.aginaw, Mich., 

 lias recently secured the pat'-'Ut rights on an im- 

 proved log rack which should be a decidedly 

 advantageous equipment for any manufacturer 

 using cars for the transportation of logs and for 

 such railroad companies as handle logs in any 

 great quantity. A communication from Mr. 

 Reeves says that the racks are already in use 

 on the Michigan Central and B. & M. railroads, 

 and are carrying an average of 4.."i00 feet, witli 

 very satisfactory results. 



The arrangement is in tlie nature of .a rack 

 fitted onto the top of the cars. It is made of 

 steel and is so arranged that the load can be 

 automatically dumped by .lacking up one side 

 of the entire rack, at the same time lowering 



Lumbermen's Bureau Opens New Office 



The Lumbermen's Bureau of Washingtou. 

 I>. C, announces the opening of a central west- 

 ern office at 917 Lumberman's building, St. 

 Louis, Mo., in charge of its vice-president, George 

 McBlair. This office is for the purpose of being 

 more readily accessible to its numerous sub- 

 scribers tliroughout this tremendous lumber 

 section. 



The Lumbermen's Bureau is the compiler of 

 the general lumber tariff, and the monthly mar- 

 ket reports on hardwoods and yellow pine. 



Indian Mill to Increase Cut 



As a result of an amendment to the In- 

 dian appropriation bill inserted by tlie Sen- 

 ate and adopted tjy the House, the Menomi- 

 nee Indian sawmill plant at Neopit, Wis., will 

 be permitted to cut 40.000 feet of timber this 

 season, instead of 20,000,000, the maximum 

 allowed under the law lieretofore in effect. 

 The amendment adopted also permits the cut- 

 ting of dead and down timber and of live 

 timber in the areas burned over during the 



One blow of a sledrfe 

 down come the 

 Stakes- Off come 

 the Loj5- 



METHOD OF UNLOADIXti WITH Itl^F.VKS LOG RACK 



the steel stakes on the other side, permitting 

 the logs to roll off. A descriptive circular claims 

 that the device saves shippers labor and ma- 

 terial in getting out and fitting wooden stakes. 

 and that it saves considerable time in unloading. 

 It also guards against the loss of logs from 

 cars in transit and injuries to employes by fall- 

 ing logs. From the point of view of the rail- 

 roads they are saved broken stake sockets, side 

 sills and decking, and they are guarded against 

 the danger of wrecks caused by broken stakes. 

 It is claimed by the Reeves company that its 

 stalses minimize the dangers of log hauling and 

 utilize the capacity of the car to the maximum. 

 Tliey pay for themselves in extra earnings, ac- 

 cording to tlie calculations of this company, in 

 the first thirty times used. These racks can In' 

 applied to any style of railroad car. 



forest fires of last fall. It also authorizes 

 the building of a short line railroad. 



Miscellaneous Noter 



The Arthur King Table Company of Columbus, 

 O., was recently incorporated with a capital stock 

 of ,$10,000. 



The Davies Lumber Company has recently en- 

 tered the wholesale hardwood lumber trade at 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Ilouser, Lumber Company of Anniston, 

 -Ma., was recently incorporated with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $12,000. 



The Standard Handle Company of Macon, Ga., 

 was recently incorporated with an authorized 

 capital stock of $10,000. 



A new incorporation for Tifton, Ga., Is the 

 'I'ifton Planing Mill Company, which has an au- 

 Iborized capital stock of $5,500. 



