Fi'lininry 10, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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tried out both systems. 



Furniture Manufacturer. 



Answer to Question 4 



Analyzing your statements as given, without further considera- 

 tion of other plant conditions not mentioned, the writer's advice 

 would be to give preference to the endwise piling system, with 

 piles not over six feet wide, with a center chimney about 16" wide 

 at the bottom and gradually converging to the top. 



In establishing the width of your kilns, consider two such piles 

 side by side, with twelve inches between the lumber and each side 

 wall, and two feet between the adjoining piles in center of kiln. 

 Suspend a third condenser in center of kiln between the piles and 

 you will obtain a good circulation up through the chimneys and out 

 between the boards to the condensers. 



This arrangement will enable you to place a center pier of steel 

 and concrete construction, ten to twelve inches wide, between the 

 two tracks at the front of the kiln, which will reduce the size of the 

 lintel beam, and more important, will enable you to employ smaller 

 and more air-tight doors. 



The length of the kilns will have to be determined by the lengths 

 and quantities of the lumber you wish to dry. 



The above are advantages which cannot be had with any possible 

 arrangement of cross-piled cars in a compartment kiln. 



No criticism is offered on the use of the radiation mentioned, 

 provided it is properly subdivided and graduated to give the range 

 of temperature required throughout the entire length of the kiln, 

 and so installed that it will drain off its condensation in a positive 

 way, and relieve itself of air in like manner. If so arranged and 

 installed the cast iron radiation will prove a decided step in advance 

 and far superior to the old t\-pe of Header Cool.. Cons. Engr. 



With the Trade 



Maxson Becomes Maus' Partner 



The Charles O. Maus Lumber Company, South Bend, lud., announces 

 having taken into the business as a partner Ray B. Maxson. 



Mr. Maxson was. during the war and up to Jan. 1, 1921, lumber pur- 

 chasing agent for the Studebaker Corporation. For the past year he has 

 been in the hardwood lumber business for himself, with an office in the 

 Farmers' Trust building at South Bend. 



As previously announced, the Charles O. Maus Lumber Company is a now 

 concern, Mr. Maus having been connected with the Hyde Lumber Company 

 for the past nine years in the capacity of salesman, covering the states 

 of Michigan, Northern Indiana and Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and 

 Ontario, Canada. 



Mr. Maxson will be in charge of the office at South Bend and look after 

 the buying, while Mr. Maus will be in charge of the selling end. 



The knowledge and experience of these two men in their different fields 

 should assure the new concern their share of success, as they are well nnil 

 favorably known throughout the buying trade of hardwood lumber. 



Foote Company Completes Thirtieth Year 



Record of forty years in the hardwood and lumber trade of Cleveland 

 will be established by C. II. Foole, head of the C. H. Foote Lumber Com- 

 pany, on March 1, and the company that bears his name will celebrate its 

 thirtieth year In business. 



At the same time reorganization of the company is announced, with an 

 aggressive and progressive policy for distribution of quality material. 

 Important in this connection Is the appointment of H. E. Leake as sales 

 manager for the Foote organization. Mr. Leake has spent practically a 

 life time in the lumber industry, and is as well known in the South as he 

 Is in the North. For the last throe years he has been connected with the 

 Krass Brothers Lumber Company, covering the Northern Ohio territory. 

 Prior to coming to this vicinity Mr. Leake was with tirms in Temple, 

 Texas, and New Orleans, and is thoroughly conversant with conditions in 

 the South. Mr. Leake now is in the South, making a survey of the mills 

 situation in the Interest of the Foote company. 



Mr. Foote himself first entered the lumber Industry with the Fisher- 

 Wilson Company, of T'lovoland. lie was with that firm for ten years an<I 

 then embarked in business for himself. 



Activities of the C. H. Foote Lumber Company are directed by the officers, 

 who are: President, C. II. Foote; secretary, R. G. Blum; treasurer, A. H. 

 Foote. Headquarters will l)e continuiKl on the eighth floor, Columbia 

 Building, this city. 



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