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HARDWOOD RECORD 



has been compelled to run night and day a 

 large portion of the time so as to take care 

 of the trade it has so successfully established. 

 This plant carries a stock of 1,500,000 feet. 



The Lesh. I'routy & Abbott Company of East 

 Chicago, Ind., was established in 1888, since 

 which time the mill has run continuously on 

 walnut, a fact of which no other walnut mill 

 can boast. It has a daily capacity of 15,000 

 feet and carries a stock of 1.500.1100 feet. P. P. 

 Abbott is president of this company. 



The East St. Louis Walnut Company. 

 St. Louis, 111., of which Hon. S. V. Prout 

 president, was established in 1!>02. The mill 

 has a daily capacity of 16,000 feet a day and 

 the company carries in stock 2,500.000 feet of 

 walnut. 



Buffalo Convention. 



The plans are fast maturing for the details 

 of the annual meeting of the National Hani 

 wood Lumber Association, which will take place 

 at Buffalo, -May 18 and 19. The committee has 

 arranged to have headquarters at the Iroquois 

 Hotel, where the meetings will be held, and 

 where the banquet will be served. 



The Iroquois Hotel is an excellent fireproof 



building, c lucted on the European plan. The 



rates for single rooms without baths are from 

 $1.50 to $2.50 per day; with baths, S3 to $3.50. 

 Double rooms without bath can be had at $3 to 

 $4 a day : with bath at $5 to $6. 



The Lafayette Hotel is anothi I hos- 



telry, two squares from the association bead- 

 quarters, and it is also conducted on the i 

 pean plan. The rates in this hotel are as fol- 

 lows: mi' without bath, $1.50 to $2 

 with shower bath $2 to $2.50; with tub bath. 

 $3. Double rooms without bath. $2.51 

 double rooms wl er bath. $3 to $1 

 with tub bath, - 



Che I lenesee Hotel i- anol aei Bui opes n 



i.il hi s firsl class manner, at which the 

 rates are $1, $2, S3 and upwards. Th 

 three squares from association headquarters. 



The Hoti i f, Is conducted on 



the American plan, with rates at from $3 to $4 

 a day. 



The Mansion House maki I $2 a day 



on the American plan and >i pel daj i 

 European plan. 



The Stafford House. American plan, names 

 rates of from $2 to $2.50 a day. 



It would be wise for those expecting to attend 

 the annual meeting to make reservations in ad 

 vance, as Buffalo hotels are ordinarily well 

 filled with the usual trade at this time of year 

 ons can be made direct, or can be se- 

 cured from the Iluffalo committee of arrange- 

 ments, consisting of <->. E. Y/eager, chairman; 

 M. M. Wall and I. N. Stewart. 



Indian Territory Timber. 

 About sixty two per cent of the area of Indian 

 Territory is rich in timber. The chief wooded 

 which are in the east and southeast. 

 consist of the Ozark plateau in eastern ' 

 kee nation and the Ozark hills in Choctaw na- 

 tion, although timber is found more or less 

 scattered in all parts of the territory. In the 

 mountain forests in the eastern and south) 

 ecu parts are to be found considerable quantities 

 of pine mixed with hardwoods. The remaining 

 s are composed of hardwoods — oak, black 



walnm. ash, pecan, cottons 1, sycamore, elm. 



hackherry. maple and many other species. 



New Special Cable Conveyor. 

 Attention is called to something new and In- 

 teresting in the way of lumber conveyors. The 

 accompanying illustrations show a cable conveyor 

 in use at the sawmill of E. R. Spotswood & Son 

 at Lexington, Ky. As will be noted this con- 

 veyor is suspended over a stream, the support 

 being built on the lines of a regular suspension 

 bridge. The conveyor Itself Is about 450 feet 

 long, and Is used for carrying bill stuff, boards 

 and planks. It Is constructed of a special steel 



cable with clamps, the latter having wooden 

 cross-pieces which slide on a suitable wooden 

 track. The lumber is placed on these cross- 

 pieces and carried from one end of the conveyor 

 to the other. Both cables are on the same 

 plane, the sheaves being mounted on vertical 

 shafts. This makes it possible to use the con- 

 veyor for carrying lumber in both directions. 



JEFFRE1 CONVEYOR OVEB A STREAM. 



The cable is driven by means of special gapped 

 sheaves, the gaps in the sheaves registering with 

 the spacing of the clamps on the cable. The 

 machinery for 'bis equipment was furnished by 

 the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, which make a specialty of all kinds 

 of cable and chain conveyors tor handling slabs. 

 ■lumber, logs and general mill refuse- ii will 

 likely interest many of our readers who are en- 

 ring to cheapen the cost of handling their 



SHOWING II11W THE TORN 



MADE 



product, to address this company. It issues 

 a very handsome illustrated catalogue, that will 

 be mailed free upon application. 



Hardwoods in Texas. 



Alfred H. Blrdsall of San Antonio, Tex., said 

 in a recent interview that since the great forests 

 of the Northwest are rapidly becoming denuded 

 many lumbermen are turning their eyes toward 

 the vast extent of timber-bearing land in Texas. 

 There are forty million acres of heavily wooded 

 land in the state. 



Almost the entire region along, the Sabine 

 river is covered with a dense and perpetual 

 growth of valuable woods covering an area ol 

 three hundred miles from north to south, about 

 one hundred miles wide at the northern mar- 



gin. Vast forests of pine in several varieties 

 are to be seen on the high ground in this re- 

 gion. In the lower districts and on the slopes 

 are found oak. walnut, elm, maple, hickory, pop- 

 lar, gum and many less important growths. 

 Toward the northern boundary of these forests 

 many valuable cabinet woods abound and there 

 are immense reaches of all sorts of valuable 

 woods. 



The Texas forests are almost entirely under- 

 laid with rich deposits of iron ore. affording 

 an immediate market for small timber, charcoal 

 and by-products. 



A Great Hardwood. Section. 



A vast timber region yet to be opened up by 

 railroads is that surrounding the head waters 

 of the Big Sandy river in eastern Kentucky. 

 The timber contiguous to this river and its 

 branches has furnished a log supply for the 

 river mills for many years, but back from 

 tie- streams there are still untouched forests 

 abounding in poplar, oak, chestnut and other 

 hardwoods. The great coal fields of the same 

 region are still unopened, save as the farmers 

 take their home supply from the mountain side, 

 a tew find market, for a thousand bushels 

 'i so n year, on the little steamboats that ply 

 the main river. 



The timber along the Big Sandy and its tribu- 

 taries has been steadily depleted for the last 

 half century, but it is only during recent years 

 thai my timber has been felled except that 

 lying close to the rivers. Latterly, however, 

 quite a number of tram roads have been utilized 

 to haul timber from a considerable distance to 

 reach floating water. 



This timber area, contiguous as it is to the 

 great consuming markets of the country, has 

 slow of development, owing very 

 character of the mountaineer in- 

 babltants Of the region, and to the added fact 

 thai eastern Kentucky titles are very precarious 

 and difficult to perfect. While the country is 

 very si aiselv settled, there are many husky 

 mountaineers who for many years have squatted 

 arable lands until they believe that the 

 country and all it contains belongs absolutely 

 to tie Fhej do not deal kindly with the 



Btranger who enters there and claims to own 

 sundry thousands of acres of mountain timber. 

 It is a feud country, where every man's best 

 i is his rifle. Every lumberman operating 

 in that section at the- present lime is permitted 

 to si:i\ there only by sufferance, and this suffer- 

 in ■ only obtained by long and close com- 

 munion with tin natives of the land. The 

 stranger, be be Lumberman or tourist, is most 

 hospitably treated until he begins to interfere 

 with what the natives regard as their vested 

 rights : then trouble comes to him and lots of 

 it. All strangers are' known in the vernacular 

 of tin* land as "furriners" and very few have 



II ii. riiv to insist upon even well-grounded 



rights of ownership in the face of opposition 

 from the Kentucky mountaineer. 



it Is a wild land clown in eastern Kentucky, 

 and in the North would he called a lawless land. 

 Inn in that country little is thought about the 

 conditions in a community where the criminal 

 -e, numerous in some counties that they 

 have absorbed the entire time of the judges for 

 the ic-ist live years, to the absolute exclusion of 

 any civil cases. 



A Reorganization. 

 The' Chico Lumber Company of Blissville, 

 Ark., has been reorganized as the' Bliss-Cook 

 ciak Lumber Company. Ex-Governor A. T. Bliss 

 has sold his entire interest in this great enter- 

 prise- to A. r. Bliss and W. t;. Van Auken of 

 P.liss t v Van Auken, Saginaw. Mich . and Albert 

 I'. Cook "f Little Rock, Ark. The new company 

 takes over one of the finest hardwood holdings 

 in the south country, which comprises upwards 



oi l.ii, f.et. largely oak. with railroads 



and sawmill. Mr. Cook will continue as the 

 active manager of the enterprise. 



