HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Buys Virginia Hardwoods 



A tract of 2.!,000 iiires of lianlwuoil timber In soiitlnvpstcrn Virslniu 

 was recently purchased by the Clinchfield Timber Corporation for the sum 

 of $::r>0.000. The deal carries with it only the timber Dights. while the 

 coai rights are reserved l)y the former owners, being valued at :$2.000,000. 



East Jordan Lumber Company Loses Mill 



At six o'clock on the afternoon of Wedni'sday. December 17. the hemlock 

 ■mill known as Jliil B of the East Jordan Lumber Company at East 

 Jordan. Mich., was totally destroyed by fire. The conflagration consumed 

 the mill structure and destroyed the circular mill with a band resaw. 

 The resulting loss was $20,000, of which Siri.OOO is covered by insurance. 

 The company announces that it already has under construction a larger 

 and more modern plant. Mill A will operate day and night until the 

 new mill is finished, but aside from this, operations will go on about as 

 usual. 



Pertinent Information 



Splicing a Sand Belt 



There has been g:eat development iu late years in belt sand papering 

 machinery, and nearly every wood-working institution in the country is 

 now a user of some machinery, of lliis kind. But the development of a 

 sand belt for such machinery has not been what might be called success- 

 ful, inasmuch as the ordinary means for joining tliem left the belt 

 thicker at the joint than anywhere else, which Joint passes over the 

 work with a jerk, causing imperfections on work, and making the life of 

 a belt very uncertain. 



A TOpans for cutting and perfecting a tapered or beveled joint has been 

 invented by the C. H. Driver & Kerr Company, 1322 Sixteenth street. 

 liacine. Wis. It is claimed that its machine takes a roll of material, cuts 

 Ihc tapered joints to the length of belt required, passing it on through 

 and re-rolling on a spool through which a rod can be run so that the 

 roll may be hung on brackets for convenience in handling. "When a 

 belt is wanted, all there is to do is to unroll to the joint, cut off and 

 iiment the tapered ends together, which makes a perfect belt with the 

 joint no thicker than any other point on it. The ordinary method has 

 been to measure and cut off a desired length from a roll of material, and 

 then glue a strip across the two ends, which, of course, left a joint. 



A New Lumber Piling Jack 



There is on tbo market a device which insures the piling of lumber of 

 all kinds without injury to its surface. It facilitates piling on account 

 of the ease and rapidity with which this work may be done. The device 

 1 onsists of a head on which are mounted a series of pointed teeth. These 

 being inclined slightly enable the lumber to be pushed upward along their 

 surface, but prevent it from slipping downward. The head may be 

 ■ asily revolved in any direction. A spring attached to the side of a 

 head brings It to its origical position as soon as the board releases it, 

 so that the jack is always ready for instant action. 



The heaviest and widest boards may be handled without danger of 

 marring their face or of splitting, as is apt to occur where a pointed 

 stick or post is used. 



In the accompanying illustration Xo. 1 is to be attached to a squared 

 pole and inserted Ijetwecn the layers of lumber at any point desired. 

 No. 2 may be fastened to the top of a ■1x4 post or to the upright of a 

 yard truck. 



The jack is manufactured by E. C. .\tkins & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, 

 Ind.. and was r. ady f..r d.'livery aiif.ui N..v. 1. 



Short Day on Saturday Unlawftil at Arkansas Mills 



In the newspapers of the Southwest of late there has been a great 

 deal said by Arkansas State Labor Commissioner J. C. Clary, in regard 

 to sawmill npiraiors violating the law which provides against working 



the employes for more than ten hours per day. Under the custom that 

 has grown up in the state, mill operators have heretofore worked their 

 men for ten and one-halt hours daily during the first five days of tlic 

 week. In order that the men might be able to get off two and one-halt 

 hours earlier on Saturday. This practice, Commissioner Clary contends, 

 is in violation of an Arkansas statute. Recently Commissioner Clary 

 called on Attorney General Moose for an opinion in the matter, and in 



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THE MODEUX WAY OF SPLICING BELT SANDERS 



reply Judge Moose said in part as follows : "You state that some of the 

 sawmills of the state have adopted the custom of compelling their em- 

 ployes to work ten and one-half hours five days in the week and seven 

 and one-half hours on Saturdays, which on the average make ten hours 

 a day tor the six working days. You ask whether that is lawful under 

 the provision of the act aforesaid. I do not think it is. Section 1 of 

 the act provides that ten hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all 

 classes of working men and laborers engaged in the operating and con- 

 structing of saw and planing mills in this state. If ten hours is a legal 

 day's work, ten and one-half hours is not legal. 



"You will observe, too, that the act provides for a day's work, and not 

 a week's work. If it is lawful to work ten and one-half hours the first 

 five days, it is lawful to work fifteen hours the first four days of the 

 week and then compel the men to do nothing the remainder of the week. 

 You will also notice that In Section 3 of the act. it is provided that each 

 day's violation of this act or any part thereof shall be considered a sepa- 

 rate offense. The act provides that nothing therein shall prevent the 

 employer or employe from contracting for a less number of hours for a 

 legal day's work than is mentioned in Section 1. but it does not provide 

 that they may contract for a greater number of hours. So it is my 

 opinion that when the company operating the sawmill requires its 

 employes to work more than ten hours in any one day, it violates not 

 only the letter, hut the spirit of the act" 



The millnien say that by this agitation Commi.ssioner Clary 

 is going to work a hardship on the employes rather than upon 

 the mill operators. They state that the practice of working 

 the men for ten and one-half hours per day for the first five 

 days and thereby allowing them to get off two and one-halt 

 hours earlier on Saturday, has grown up at the request of the 

 employes: that so far as the manufacturers are concerned they 

 would much prefer having six days per week on tlie uniform 

 time of ten hours. Tliey also state that if they are not to 

 work the repair men after the 6 o'clock whistle blows in the 

 evening, it will mean that the plant will have to be closed 

 down when repairs are necessary, and thereby the employes 

 will be forced to lay off. This, the mill men contend, is 

 harder on the emplo.ves who depend on their time for their 

 living than it Is upon the mill operators. 



ATKINS LL'MBEK PILING JACK 



'I'here may be fifty per cent ot waste in manufacturing 

 narrow hardwood and parquetry flooring but this product 

 helps helps save a lot that might otherwise be waste for the 

 mill man. 



