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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1917 



Saw & Saw Mill Macbinery Company. St. Louis, Mo. Botb the Hiil and 

 Curtis lines of equipment will in the future be built at Kalamazoo, where 

 all Inquiries and orders for new equipment and renewals will be received 

 and carefully attended to. 



Organize New Wood Bending Company 



with the modern processes of Frederic Schreibmau, noted mechanical and 

 electrical engineer of Belgium, the New Process Wood Bending Company 

 has been incorporated at Kingston, N. Y. Mr. Schreibmau has been demon- 

 strating his bending methods, which have already had practical applica- 

 tion, and as a result of the early successful tests the company has been 

 organized and will shortly be in operation. 



One series of experiments on wooden ribs for submarine chasers of red 

 oak 3 inches by 2VH inches by 13 feet long showed very successful results. 

 The piece of wood was bent on the three-inch side. The maximum depth 

 of the bending was 3 feet 1 inch. Several half circles were bent one at 

 a time of yellow pine 2M! by 2 inches, the circles having a diameter of 

 48 Inches. Another experiment was made with three pieces of red oak 

 placed one on top of the other, each of these pieces being 3 inches by 3% 

 inches by 13 feet long. 



R. E. Wood Buys in North Carolina 



Negotiations which have been carried on for some time past by K. E. Wood, 

 president of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Continental building. Balti- 

 more, Md., for tiniberland in North Carolina have resulted in the closing 

 of a transaction whereby the Montvale Lumber Company, a subsidiary of 

 the K. E. Wood company ami timber holding corporation, comes into the 

 possession of an extensive tract of timber in Swain county, North Caro- 

 lina. It is stated that in due time arrangements will be made for the 

 erection of a saw and planing mill. A statement regarding the matter 

 given out by Mr. Wood is as follows : 



Our Montvale Lumber Company, subsidiary company to the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, has purchased some lands in Swain county. North Caro- 

 lina, on the Ocona-Lufty river, above Cherokee, the Indian Reservation 

 well-known through North Carolina. In addition to this purchase, we will 

 handle other timber and within a reasonable time locate a plant in that 

 near vicinity to take the hardwood lumber from abo\it 27,000 acres. 



With this arrangement there is an alliance with the Champion Fibre 

 Company of Canton, N. C, with headquarters at Hamilton. O., of which 

 Peter G. Thompson is the head, to handle the by-products, such as tannic 

 acid wood from the spruce, chestnut, etc., and the Montvale Lumber Com 

 pany will manufacture the hardwoods, which consist of tine poplar, ash, 

 cherry, lynn and such other hardwoods well known in western North Caro- 

 lina. The plant, when completed, will consist of milling <apaclty of about 

 ."lO.OOO feet daily and have a planing mill and ilimension plant attached. 



Organize in Texas 



The t)range Hardwood I^umber Company, Orange, Tex., has been organ- 

 ized by W. A. Stark and U. S. Lambert, two well-known lumbermen of .Mem- 

 phis. It is announced that humediate steps will be taken looking to the 

 construction of a band mill at Orange, with daily capacity of about 40,000 

 feet. The company has already secured contracts r()veriiig enough timber 

 for ten years' operation. .\ll kiinls of Texas har<lwoods will be produced. 

 'Mr. Stark will be president of the company and will remove to Orangi'. 

 where he will make his beadcpiartei-s. .Mr. Lambert will be treasurer and 

 will go at once to Orange, though his lamily will remain In Memphis for 

 some months. Mr. Stark was in business with his brother. .lames K. Stark, 

 until 1907, when he entered the milling business in Arkansas under the 

 firm name of W. A. Stark & Co. He has cut out his timber holdings in that 

 state, which accounts for the change in his location. Mr. Lambert came 



to Memphis some twelve years ago from Princeton. Ind., to accept service 

 with the Green River Lumber Company. Four years later he became sales 

 manager and secretary of Nickey & Sons Company, remaining with that 

 firm until its liquidation. Both of these gentlemen are experienced and 

 capable hardwood nfen and their friends are predicting for them a brilliant 

 i-.Mier in their new Held. 



Wood's Density Retards Decay 



The Southern Pine Association has published conclusions reacheil by 

 Dr. S. M. Zeller after two years of investigation regarding the decay of 

 wood. The tests were made with southern yellow pine, but the conclu- 

 sions probably hold true of other woods, provided heartwood alone is con- 

 sidered. It is claimed that wood with wide growth rings decays more 

 slowly than that of narrow rings, if a large part of the ring consists of 

 dense, dark wood. The fungus which is responsible for deca.v does not 

 work energetically in the dense wood which represents the growth which 

 the tree puts on late in the season. This fact shovild be borne in mind In 

 selecting timber for foundations or to be used in any situation where decay 

 is likely to be active. 



Texas Hardwood Enterprise 



On .\ugust 1 Rex H. Brown became manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Beaumont Lumber Company, Beaumont. Texas, of which com- 

 pany Ben S. Woodhead is president, W. .\. Priddie vice-president, George N. 

 .\uderson secretary, H. C. Wiess treasurer, and W. L. Womack general sales 

 agent. The hardwood department of this well known company was opened 

 about two years ago and has since grown to large proportions and every 

 prospect is favorable to a still further increase. The region tributary 

 to Beaumont produces hardwoods of excellent quality and in quantities 

 sufficiently large to guarantee ample supplies for a long time. These woods 

 have won their way on their merit in the markets of the country for all 

 purposes for which such hardwoods are used. 



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I Pertinent Information \ 



Foreign Commerce for May 



The Government has luitdisbed statistics of our fcu'eign commerce fttr 

 May of this year. Including both experts and impoi-ts. The total business 

 for the month was $833.. '501. 180. For the corres|)onding month last year 

 the total was $703,992,594. The total exports in May of this year were 

 valueil at $."),"i2,79.j,022 : total imports, $280,70(1,164. The balance of 

 trade in our favor totaled $272,0SS,8.")8. Our total foreign commerce for 

 the eleven months ending with May. 1917, was valued at the enormous sum 

 of $8,072,727,761. ♦ 



Forest Service Issues Price List 



The I'orest i^ervlce, through the Office of Industrial ln\ estlgations at 

 Washington, issues a quarterly summary of prices on lumber. The list 

 issued July 16. covering April. May and June, shows i>rices f.o.b. of cer- 

 tain reporting mills in -Arkansas. Miss(>uri, Louisiana. Mississippi, .\labama, 

 Tennessee. Kentucky. Ohiii, North Carolina and West Virginia on the dif- 

 ferent grades of ash, chestnut, Cottonwood, gum. hickory, poplar and plain 

 an<l quartereil oak in red and white. 



R. H. BROWNE. 



Manager Beaumont Lumber Company. 



Beaumont, Tex. 



BE.\ S. WOODHEAU, 



t'rcsiilent Beaumont Lumber Compauv, 



Beaumont, Tex. 



K. E. \voor>. 



R. K. Wood Lumber rompanv. 

 Baltimore. Md. 



