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The Knoxvllli" Vi'iiccr Comimiiy n'o'iiltj- Installed n circular sawmill 

 ill couiiC'ctiiin null Its phinl fur snwiiiK tlltrbes. This mill can turn 

 out flltcliis u|i to forty clRht Inches. The company has a very extensive 

 lot of hiKhgiaile oak iinil walnut lo;;s In Its yards. It Is running full 

 time and. in fact. Is havliii; dllliculty In kiipiuK up with its orders. 

 Bobert Stimson Locates at Memphis 



Itolx-rt Sllinson. ~on of .1. V. Siiinsou of Iluntinghuri,'. Ind.. last week 

 located at Memphis, where he will take charge of the new corporation 

 formed to operate the C. I.. Wllley veneer and lumber plant. Mr. Stimson 

 rxpects to put the veneer mill in shape to run immediately and will begin 

 to produce rotary veneers for the market. Mr. Stimson will have full 

 • harge of the new Stimson operations at Memphis. The plant Is to he 

 uue of the best sawmill plants located in tlie South. 



Death of L. T. Spragins 



L. T. Spragins of the firm of T. .^. Spragins .V: Son. liudi-. Miss., was 

 killed al)Out a week ag 1 at the company's operations, death being caused 

 by a li>g rolling on him from a car. 



Mr. Spragins was born in ISTG and had been connected actively with 

 timber operations with his fatlier for a number of years. From 1.S9U to 

 1102 Mr. Spragins and his father were located at Demoiiolls. .Ma. In 

 1 :'(■.■} they removed to Carrollton. .Ma., remaining there for two years, 

 ile later was connected with his father in operating mills in Wilkinson 

 county. Mississippi, and later in Adams county. Mississippi, the last mill 

 being at Bude, the operations now being maintained by T. .1. Spragins & 

 Son. 



The accident occurred on Friday morning, March IS. and the funeral 

 was held at Port Gibson, Miss., on Sunday. March I'l. 



John H. Murray Dies at Eureka Springs, Ark. 



John n. Murray, one of the best sawmill men in the t'ouutry. died at 

 Eureka Springs. March li, of kidney trouble. Mr. Murray had been in 

 poor health for over a year and had gone to Eureka Springs in tlie hope 

 that his health might be improved. 



Mr. Murray was born at McC'onuellsvillc, O., on August .", 1S41. lie 

 was engaged in the sawmill business in Indiana for over forty-flvc years 

 cutting walnut, and it is stated that during that time he cut the first 

 carload of quartered oak ever pri>duced. He moved from Indiana to 

 Obion, Tenn., and from Obion went to ^lurray. Ark., where he was en- 

 gaged extensively in the manufacture of walnut and cherry, bis mill 

 being located fifty miles from the railroad. Ue removed to Galard City, 

 Ark., where be bad been located for over ten years up to the time of his 

 death. Uncle .loe. as ho was familiarly known to his friends, spent much 

 of his leisure time in bunting, being an excellent shot in spite of his 

 having only one arm. 



Mr. Murray is survived by one son. a daughter and a brotiier. The 

 remains will lie taken to Indiana for burial. The funeral took place on 

 .March lu. 



Will Operate Mill in Wisconsin 



The Vetter Manufacturing ("ompany of Wausau, Wis., has purchased 

 upwards of l.Gon acres of timberland, a forty-acre mill site and sawmill, 

 all located In Marathon county. Wis. These deals have been pending for 

 about three months. 



The timberland is located near the town of Knowlton and contains ap- 

 proximately 10,000.000 feet of hardwood and hemlock timber. It is 

 eompact and readily accessilde for logging operations. The sawmill is on 

 the banks of the EAu Claire river, about nine miles east of Knowlton 

 station. 



The sawmill of the .Tohnson Creek Lumber Company near Knowlton 

 lias been purchased and is being moved into this site. Tbc mill has a 

 daily capacity of 40.000 to ."lO.OOO feet. 



Canadian Linderman Company in Progressive Enterprise 

 lI.MtDWODi) I!ki'<mii> was recently in reieipt of a communication from 

 r. C. Cheston. general manager of the Canadian Linderman Company, 

 Ltd., Woodstock. Ontario. Mr. Cheston's letter was inspired by a short 

 item appearing in a recent issue of II.midwood Record, in which an en- 

 ■lavor was mad,' to treat humorously a suggestion appearing in a country 

 iMily to the effect that a wonderful edger which had come under the 

 'liservation of one of the reporters of that paper turned out 24 inch lum- 

 Uer from .my old kind of slock that went in. Of course this edger was 

 simply an ordinary edger and the construction of the sentence left grave 

 room for doubt as to the ability of the machine to perform tbc work 

 referred to. 



Mr. Cheston, however, raises the (iiiestion that this work is actually 

 being done, although the total width is gotten by adding on other pieces. 

 .Mr. Cheston says that he has bad the proposition up with Canadian 

 manufacturers for several years, and has finally convinced the large, 

 Iirogresslve companies of the Dominion that there Is a large saving In 

 the process. 



In the Canadian northwest, cast of tbc Rocky mountains, according to 

 Mr. Cheston, there are vast quantities of spruce, most of it being small 

 M ruber which yields from twenty-five to forty per cent of 3-lnch or 4-Inch 

 iiiirrow widths. The best of this Is used for flooring and other similar 

 inirposes. but the common grades sell for what can be ieallze<l for theni, 

 l>rices ranging usually from ?7..">0 to *!) a thousand. Mr. Cheston says 

 that his suggestion was that these companies leave the narrow widths 

 to airdry for iiln.'ty days, after which they can be run through a 



Linderman iiiacliine iiiiii two 4 iiuli strips run together, making a board 

 of any ieni;lli up lo K; feet thai will be 7% Inches wide. This board can 

 be put through a matcher and converted into sblplap, which brings from 

 ¥14 to *l(i per thousand at the mill. 



.Mr. Cheston also suggests that No. :{ grades of lumber on the prairie 

 Increase rapidly In price, according to width, there being a variation of 

 $."> between 4-inch and (i-lnch No. .'i grades, and lolncb and 12-lnch No. o 

 grades. 



The |ihin also includes tbc making of all lumber of eciual lengths, which 

 Is proving to be practical and economical. For Instance, .'J-lnch strips 

 10 feet long are joined to one or more pieces of any length wbo.se com- 

 bined length equals 16 feet. There Is then joined to this piece two or 

 more lengths whose combined length makes ItJ feet. On the outside of 

 this composite board a binding strip 2. y or more Inches wide is joined 

 through the LIndiTman machine. Such a composite hoard as this can 

 lie used for sub-flooring, partition work, sheathing and similar work 

 being very well adapted for those uses. This operation can he per 

 formed at a cost of not exceeding one dollar per thousand feet. 



.\s proof of its faith In the proposition, the Linderman company 

 recently ran several thousand feet of 4-foot spruce through a matcher, and 

 then used it to cover the outside of a number of its buildings. ' When 

 painted, it was impossible to discover any openings betVeen the Boards 

 at the joints. 



Ohio Furniture Company Purchases New Machinery 

 The officers of the Auglaize Furniture Coniijany of New Bremen. O., 

 Inst week completed the purchase of new macbinery for the factory 

 which that company is erecting. The question of individual motor-drives 

 is also being con.sidered and it is anticipated that these purchases will 

 also be consummated in the near future. 



The work of erecting the plant is about completed, the carpenters now 

 being busy with the interior finishing. It is expected that by the time 

 the macbinery arrives, concrete floors will be ready for installation and 

 that the operation of the shops will be started in the early spring. 



Prominent Boston Lumherman Dies 



Willis I.'. Hates, pi-oiiiincnt ti'.;iire in .N.'W lOn^land lumber circles, died 

 suddenly on Monday. March 'J. His death came as a great shock to a 

 large number of those in the trade as he was in his usual good health 

 up to an hour or two of his death. 



Mr. Bates was born in Coventry. R. I., in 18.58. He was engaged in 

 the lumber business in Coventry for some time, but came to Boston a 

 quarter of a century ago, and was associated with J. & A. Ilurd & Co. 

 Later he became manager of a branch of Shepard, Farmer & Co., until 

 be organized Willis C. Bates & Co. about tin years ago. He has been 

 treasurer and manager of that concern since commencing the business. 



Mr. Bbtes was a thirty-second degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a mem- 

 ber of the Ancient and Honorable .\rfillcry Company of Boston, and a 

 member of several clubs. He was whlely known in a business way and 

 i'.ad a host of friends. 



The tuueral was held Thursday afternoon at his late residence. 33 

 High street. Canton, Mass. 



Pertinent Information 



Eight Large Bedwood Logs 

 Eight logs were recently cut Ironi a rcihvoorl tree In Humboldt county, 

 California, the largest measuring twelve feet and the smallest nine Inside 

 the bark. Their aggregate length was 174 feet. The smallest scaled 

 12.042 feet, the largest 17.778. The total measurement of the tree was 

 12(i.!l7H board feet. This may not be the largest outiiut for a single tree, 

 but no record ex( ding it seems to be at liaiid. 



A Mammoth Michigan Elm 

 What was probably the largest tree In southern .Michigan was cut rc- 

 centl.v on the Daniel Cullinane farm in Silver Creek township, near tbc 

 Culllnane schoolhouse. This monster was an elm and furnished seven 

 logs, the butt log being the shortest and scaling 1,400 feet. The rest of 

 tbc tree was large euough to bring the total measurement up to nearly 

 7,000 feet, a record which has not been made during the past fifty years 

 In Cass county. But one log at a time couhl be liauli>d. owing to Its size, 

 and one team could not handle the first one. It Is not known how old 

 the tree was, but It is estimated to have been at least 200 .years old. If not 



older. 



Hearing on Rates from Batesville to Points North and East 



Thi're was a bearing at .Memphis Saturday, March 14, In the case of tbc 

 Southern Hardwood Traflic Bureau, on behalf of R. .7. Darnell. Inc., 

 against the Illinois Central Railroad and forty-two other carriers, involv- 

 ing rates on hardwood lumber from Batesville, Miss., the location of the 

 big double baml mill of R. .T. Darnell, Inc., to points In the North and 

 E^at. The idalntilT was represented by .1. R. Walker, attorney of the 

 Southern Hardwood TralBc Bureau, witji hendqmirters at Washington: 

 J. H. Townshend. general manager of the bureau, with headquarters at 

 Memphis, and Elliott l.ang. tratbi- manager for tlii> firm in whose behalf 

 the suit was brought. V,. K. Bryan, assistant general freight agent of 



