HARDWOOD RECORD 



17 



T. F. Kellogg Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and the Kingsberry & Herishaw Company. 



The B. Heineman plant is located about four 

 miles north of Antigo. Here I met George B. 

 Heineman, manager of the B. Heineman Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Heineman gave me a very cordial 

 reception and I anticipate a return visit to him 

 with a great deal of pleasure. 



From Antigo by the Northwestern Line to 

 Wausau and then on the t\. M. & St. P. R, R. 

 to Merrill, where 1 had the pleasure of meeting 

 A. C. Schulz. manager of the H. YV. Wright 

 Lumber Company. In company with Mr. Schulz 

 I visited the plant and Doted particularly the 



well-kept yard and 11 speaking well of Mr. 

 Schulz's manageci 



1 also visited fhi Stange Lumber Company 



and met Mr. Martin, the court is mam 



Thru 1111 to TomahawS . ia the C, M .\ si. P., 

 where I met Mr, Stark and Mr. Uber of the 

 Bradley Lumber Company. Mr. Uber is a thor- 

 ough business man and is also most affable to 

 strangers. Back to ' bl< 'u<> via C, M. .v St. P. 

 wound 1111 my initial trip, a thoroughly • 



able "in'. n<ii Hiily for the experiences but 1 e 



for the pleasure of meeting the gentlemen who 



so prominently connected with the lumber 



fraternity of the Xorth Country. — Mac 



NeWs Miscellany. 



Cotton from Wood. 



Francis Marre, writing in the Paris Cosmos, 

 states that the manufacture of cotton from 

 wood, which was recently regarded as a mere 

 curiosity, is now taken seriously and promises 

 to become a lucrative business. He says : "The 

 manufactured product has all the principal prop- 

 erties of the natural plant, being light, resistant 

 and easily dyed. One of its best qualities, how- 

 ever, is that it is very cheap. Artificial cotton 

 is manufactured from the cellulose obtained from 

 £r trees which have previously been stripped 

 of bark and knots. The wood Is first cut into 

 lengths of about three feet and then placed 

 in iron cylinders, where it is submitted to the 

 action of hot air forced through powerful venti- 

 lators. When the desiccation is nearly completed 

 the wood Is placed in a receptacle in which a 

 vacuum Is created, the resinous sap oozes to the 

 surface of the wood and Is scraped off. becom- 

 ing a byproduct of no little value. 



"The trunks, which are now dry and free 

 from sap, are passed Into drums provided with 

 short steel teeth, which tear away the bark and 

 the sap-wood. This waste pulp is used for the 

 manufacture of paper. The wood is placed on 

 movable horizontal frames which give the trunk 

 a motion around its axis and while the wood is 

 thus turning on Itself mallets, operated mechan- 

 ically, strike the surface with great rapidity. 

 Little by little the fibers loosen and separate 

 the trunk being now reduced to a bundle of 

 woody ligaments which have lost their cohesion. 

 The fibers are now placed in a special machine 

 which reduces tbem to very thin sheets of wood. 

 These sheets are placed In a horizontal cylinder 

 with a capacity of about 100 cubic meters, con- 

 structed of copper and lined with lead. The 

 sheets are heated for ten hours with steam, first 

 under normal pressure and then under a pres- 

 sure of two atmospheres. The wood is then 

 heated for thirty six hours under a pressure 

 of 3 to 3.5 atmospheres with sixty cubic meters 

 of concentrated solution of bisulphite of soda. 



"At the end of the operation the wood fibers 

 which have become absolutely white are placed 

 In receptacles and soaked for a long time In 

 cold water. After being dried the mass Is 

 treated with chloride of lime, which increases the 

 whiteness, then It is washed again, compressed 

 and dried. In this way pure cellulose is ob- 

 tained, which is now placed In a steamer under 

 a pressure of 3.5 to 4 atmospheres, and at a 

 temperature of 356 to 374 degrees Fahr. The 

 mass is kept here for four hours In contact with 

 a mixture of hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, 

 chloride of zinc with a little castor oil, casein 

 and gelatin. t'nder this treatment the mass 

 becomes more supple and consistent and when 

 taken out looks like a dough. It is then put 

 In a special machine at a pressure of 10 to 

 12 atmospheres and is forced through a draw- 

 plate with very fine ends. Thus the stuff Is 

 transformed into threads. 



"The threads now pass over a gummed cloth 

 and Into a trough containing a diluted solution 

 (5 per cent) of carbonate of soda. While pass- 

 ing through these troughs the threads are rolled 

 on a drum, which, by means of an Ingenious 



arrangement, mams the threads turn on them- 

 selves: the threads are afterward unrolled from 

 the drum and placed on drying cylinders which 

 turn slowly. Necessary solidity and resistance 

 are given the threads by passing them through 

 an ammonia bath and then through pure water." 



To Protect Forests. 



The Wisconsin state senate has passed the for- 

 estry commission hill. Some amendments to 

 reduce the expense and size of the commission. 

 were defeated and the final vote was nearly 

 unanimous, only Senators Wright and Wolff vot 

 ing in the negative. The present hill strengthens 

 the forestry bill of two years ago. providing for 

 an assistant forester and making more complete 

 and adequate provisions to extinguish and guard 

 against forest tires. 



Senator Wright, who is a Merrill, Wis., lum- 

 berman, offered a set of amendments providing 

 that the commission shall consist of three in- 

 stead of five members, and that the president 

 shall be elected instead of appointed. These 

 amendments were opposed by Senator H. P. 

 Bird, the leading advocate of the bill, who said 

 that tin' friends of the bill desired to keep the 

 commission free as possible from politics and 

 that this end was to be served best by making 

 the commission appointive rather than elective. 



Senator Bird cited an example of the effect 

 of politics in the administration of state tim- 

 bered lands, telling of one sale of such lands. 

 Ai a lime when the state land office was ex- 

 tensively mixed in politics a single sale was 

 made for $400,000. This land was then cut 



,.,, .,■ and 30 70.000,000 feet of timber taken 



off. Then the same land was sold for $1,500,- 

 000. He honed that the senate would defeat 

 the amendments, for they were "vicious to the 

 bill and detractive of its purposes." He much 

 preferred, if these amendments were adopted, 

 that the bill would lie killed outright. 



Senator Bird analyzed the provisions of the 

 proposed law. showing that it was not over 

 expensive. He declared that every lumberman 



WOUld readily recognize the fact that the lull is 



an economical .me. Any successful lumberman 

 would think it unwise and wasteful to emploj 

 less help than tins hill provides for the care of 



: to ' ■ ■"■'' , ' s " r forestry 



iUle , ii was explained, originated 

 , h ,. expert ' h> -."'"mil Corestrj depai 

 a, Washington and I carefully ■ 



a,nl scrutinized by the state I restr 3 commis- 

 sion and the friends of the lines,,". 

 ,,,,, w t he hes: ever framed on this important 

 subject. 



Whiting Lumber Company Imbroglio. 

 •,.,„. llu 1 Is in receipt of .1 com 



municatlon from F. R. Whiting pertain n 



,. published iii I asl Issue ol this 



the applies Ion for lp for 



ompanj oi 1 II hton, 



, v b. Bradley & S< 



... thai ii" B 



matter, which has 

 ited by him '"'r. vv - s - wbit ' 



• in f.T the receiver- 

 ship \\ , 



Mr. Win last 



emenl to 1: 

 I urn & pany were 



$471,521.43 and that the surplus v 

 730.11. Mr. Wl es that the plant Is 



almost 1 of the 15,0 of timber 



pany aol mure than :;. 



acres bad been cut over, thi 1 the 



company having been to buy logs from farmers 

 and its own timber rights. He fur- 



ther -lai.s that win, in. ui two 



"■ins ago the company was payii 



1 month profit, and sii thai time It bus lost 



Mr. Whiting alleg d ex- 



iganl management of the affairs of the 

 .1 ,1 -mi. > he ' eased to have it in cha 

 in the -. 1 wiili the Brad 



1 Ii. Whiting and \V. S. Whiting the ma- 

 jority of tln> assets go to the Bradleys, but the 

 charter of the compar to the whitings. 



It is prol. ah!.- thai S. B, Bradley «v. Sons will 



in property. Both the Whitings 

 ingaged In profitable business pursuits at the 

 ni time, I'. R. Whiting being a member of 

 the Philadelphia hardwood [umber house. Jan- 

 ney-Whiting Lumber Company, and both hi 

 his brother, W. s. Whiting, are associated with 

 the Whiting Manufacturing Company at Eliza- 

 bethton, Tenn. 



New Company at New Orleans. 



Tlie Knot'/ Manilla ■■ Companj of New 

 Orleans lias sold tie rest in all 



its holdings at Melville, I. a., to a new com- 

 pany of which II. W. Untie me. Iowa: 

 C. C. Carnahan, Judge Slnsser and Devltt, Trem- 

 ble & Co., all of Chicago, are tic principals. 

 The new concern, which is to be known a- the 

 Melville Lumber Company, has a paid up capital 

 -1. , 



The holdings of the company include 25,000 

 acres of tine hardwood timber land, a new saw 

 mill and stave factorj and about a tb.01 

 town lots. Including -'00 houses which the com- 

 pany rents to its employees. The Lata] 



Mineral Springs, which ale rapidly becoming 

 famous in the locality, are situated on the com- 

 pany's property. The water ol these springs, 

 according to leading is superior to 



that of the famous il"' Springs of Aikansa- \ 

 company of these same parlies will probably be 

 formed to erect a hotel al Latannier, ami Louisi- 

 ana will thus have its own watering place sec- 

 ond to none in the country. The company pro- 



poses building another sawmill a, Melville, 



which win ' I " •" -■'-' m ''"' 



II. \v. Huttig "l Muscatine Is the heaviest in- 

 dividual stockholder, and will he president of the 



ol tic new 

 he Iliherliia Hank building. V w 

 Orleans. 



Diamond Studded Saws. 

 K c. Atkln . ' 1 he well known saw manu- 

 facture ""> - li;n ' 

 new departure ill the saw line by turning out 

 some large circular saws, studded with 



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