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HARDWOOD RECORD 



and Edward Goddard. The land is situated in 

 Somerset township and comprlsi :;,000 



li is estimated to contain 25 ), feet 



of hardwoods, largely birch, maple and beech. 

 and about 12.000,000 feel of spruce. A part of 

 the timber will go to the Mountain Mills opera- 

 li.m of the company near Wilmington, while the 

 remainder will be manufactured in a new plant 

 which tbe company will build within tbe timber. 

 it is intended t.. run the new mill both winter 

 and summer, while tbe Mountain Mills of tbe 

 company have only been operated during tbe 

 summer season. 



This deal will make the I rfield River Com 



pany quite prominent in the East in hardwood 

 manufacture, and very likely a large portion of 

 iis product will lake the same route that has 

 been employed bj the company in the past, and 

 be reduced to dimension stock for the chair and 

 furniture trade. 



A Paducah Tragedy. 



On last Thursday, August .;. a shocking trag 

 edy occurred in the office of the Kentucky Mill 

 .V Lumber Company in tbe Fraternity building. 

 Paducah, Ky.. in which II. II. Loving, tb.- day 



befoi bet,, i president of the company, shot 



ll. A. Rose, who had just resigned as president 

 of the organization. Inflicting three wounds from 

 Which Mr. Hose died an hour later. 



Mr. Loving insisis that tlic act was done in 

 self-defense, and as he is a man "i l'o.k! reputa- 

 tion locally, sympathy is generally with him In 

 the sad affair. 



The 'an- the trouble is outlined in an- 

 other paragraph in this issue of the paper, an- 

 nounclng tie- election of new officers tor the Ken- 

 tucky Mill ,v Lumber Company owing to irregu- 

 larities which had occurred in the conduct of 

 tbe company's affairs, resulting in the resigna- 

 tion of Mr Rose :is president. 



Mr. Rose came to Paducah some ten yens ago 

 from Carrsville. Livingston county, Ky., where he 

 was born and raised, lie was a widower, his 

 wife having died some years ago. lie leaves a 

 child, aged six years. 



ll ll. Loving is a man al i forty-live vats 



old and has resided al Pa. hi. ah --one years. lie 



came io Paducah from Bardwell, Ky., where he 

 was engage. I in the banking business. lie was 

 also one of the organizers of the Globe Bank of 

 Padncah, and for a time was cashier of the in 

 stitutlon. lie has a wife and several children. 

 After the tragedy Mr. Loving gave himself up to 

 the custody "i the chlel ol police, but was re- 

 leased in charge oi an officei pending an Inves 

 tlgation of the case. The affair is the culmina- 

 tion of an unfortunate quarrel between members 

 of the Kentucky Mill ,v Lumber Company. 



Terms Used in Forestry and Logging. 



The forest service division of the Dnlted SI 

 department of agriculture has lust issued bul- 

 lefin No. 61, entitled "Terms I sed in Forestry 

 and Logging." The bulletin Includes two lists of 

 terms, alphabetically arranged, one comprising 

 the technlci ilary of American ton 



and the other a glossary of terms used in log- 

 ging operations in various parts ol tbe I 

 States ate! 



and in cases of Importance the German and 

 French equivalents ate given. The fori 

 terms are doubtless of considerable value, but 

 the i i logging ti 



does a great many purely local an. I even slang 

 phrases, possesses bur little utility, and 

 Interest chiefly from a .int. 



'i be ' -;ni hats al 



N... 59, covering the maple sugar industry, with 

 discussion on tbe adulteration ol mapl. 



The report shows bow little of what pass. 



btlng The 



bulletin should be .,f special interest to farmers 



of the country win. possess a "sugar bush" 



"mapl. orchard." Either document can he se- 



nterested on application to ih<- 



Some Facts About Forest Growth. 



The laws which govern the distribution of 

 trees produce tbe two great types, the pure and 

 the mixed forest. The former is the result of 

 lo.al conditions which trees of one kind can 

 only survive. 



In the north woods the balsam occupies the 

 swamps, usually to the exclusion of all com 

 petitors. since no other of the native trees can 

 thrive in wet places, in the Black Hills and 

 other parts of the middle West the small de- 

 mands of the bull pine upon moisture enable it 

 to form pure woods on a soil t ••■ ■ dry to support 



Other native trees. The jack pit f the New 



Jersey barrens and the longlent pine of the 

 southern states grow in pun- or nearly pure 

 stands, since they alone can withstand the pe- 

 culiar conditions of these regions. 



Where climate and soil are favorable to vari- 

 ous trees is found the mixed forest, the number 

 of s| M -. ies in mixture depending upon the suit- 

 ability of the locality to forest growth. 



i pon the hardwood flats of the Adirondaeks 



the hard maple, the yellow birch and the beech 

 are the only deciduous trees able to withstand 

 the severe climate. In the southern Appalachian 

 forests, where the trees of the North and South 

 meet un.l.r conditions favorable to both, more 

 than 100 different kinds are found. 



The distribuii t trees, therefore, is the 



Joint result of locaj conditions and of the indi- 

 vldual and varying requirements of the different 



speeies U|»,|i moist lire. Soil and climate. The 



laws, however, which govern ■ distribution 

 arc not Identical with those which regulate the 

 behavior ..I trees In mixture. They do not ex- 

 plain why each species, if undisturbed, main 

 tains the same proportion in the mixed forest. 

 Why does n..t the hard maple drive out its com- 

 p. iit.us In the Adirondaeks. Hie oak gain the 

 upper hand In the forests "I the southern Appa- 

 lachians, the red fir exterminate the western 

 hemlock on fhe Pacific slope! 



Wherever a mixed forest .... urs there is an 



unrelenting struggle going on. It is interesting 



luire bow the combatants are armed and 



why the representation of each species remains 



unchanged. 



lie- more Important of the characteristics 

 which affect the capacity of a tree to hold Its 

 own in mixture with trees ..i other kinds are its 



demands upon light. Its rat growth and its 



jiower of reproduction. No two species require 

 an equal amount of light, grow- at the same 

 rale or a/e identical in their capaclt] to r.-pro 



du.-e themselves. 

 'The endowments of each, with habit dm 



from those of its neighbors, but with Btrei 



and weakness so balanced that all which occur 

 In miXtllie enter I he Sllllggle for existence upon 



an equal footing, is ..i f ilu- marvelous feats 



oi nature. 



Tbe red spruce of the north woods, through iis 

 ability to endure dense shad.-, bas been given 

 the power to hold its own against faster growing 

 compel ol which exceed It greatly in 



their capacity t.. reproduce themselves. The 

 n hich spring up here antl there 

 throughout the forest struggle along under the 

 crowns of the hardwoods, where a tree 

 making more insistent demands upon light could 

 not thrive. 



In the forests of the southern Appalachians 

 the oak is in man] localities thi characteristic 

 free. Growing rapidly and exceedingly hardy, It 



might I xpe. led to increase steadily its propor- 



i ilu- mixture. 'Tin- equilibrium is main- 

 tained through Hie fact that H ak can endure 



bui little shade and thai its s 1 is heavy, lim- 



Itlng its reproduction to the Immediate vicinity 

 of tic- parent tree 



resigned ; Phil E. Gilbert, vice president, vice 

 W. D. Dycus, resigned : J. B. Gilbert, secretary 

 and treasurer, vice H. II. Loving, resigned. 



In explanation of the foregoing account of the 

 election of new officers of the Kentucky Mill & 

 Lumber Company, at this time, is the outgrowth 

 of sensational disclosures resulting in the resig- 

 nation of Mr. Rose, the former president of the 

 company. It is alleged by the Paducah press 

 that he was short in his accounts, and had 

 shipped lumber belonging to the company, in his 

 own name, to other cities, and had collected and 

 appropriated the money. It is further stated 

 that Mr. Rose has refunded $000, which leaves 

 a shortage of only $200 unpaid. 



The principal stockholders of the Kentucky 

 Mill & Lumber Company are H. II. Loving and 

 W. G. Dycus. It is reported that the company 

 has been in a flourishing condition, but that 

 the accounts are more or less involved. It is 

 said that the affair will in no wise embarrass 

 the company, but that it will continue operations 

 on a basis of doing business on business princi- 

 ples. 



Election of Officers. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of the 

 Kentucky Mill & Lumber Company of Paducah, 

 Ky.. held Aug. - new officers were elected as fol- 

 lows : II. H. Loving, president, vice n A Rose, 



New Deputy Inspectors N. H. L. A. 



'■ \ge L. Smith of Indianapolis, surveyor gen- 

 eral of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, advises several new appointees as deputy 

 Inspectors of the association. 



'!. K. Lstos is the new deputy Inspector at 

 Milwaukee. While his headquarters will be in 

 Milwaukee, upon call he will go to any part of 

 Wisconsin to inspect lumber for any member of 

 the association. 



August Palmqulst, 801 Magnolia street, St. 

 Paul, has also been recently appointed deputy 

 Inspector tor that city and Minneapolis. 



I". P. Southgate, the well known inspector who 

 las long been allied with the National associa- 



lion. has also r ived a new appointment as 



deputy Inspector for the St Louis district and 

 commenced his work in this Held August 7. 



The above inspectors are all engaged on a 

 salary basis in accordance with the new program 

 outlined for this service, in accordance with the 

 decision of the association made at its recent 

 Buffalo meeting. 



Handle Factory Combination. 



lb.- daily press has it that the deal looking 

 io a combination of all the hickory handle fac- 

 tories in this country is about consummated. It 

 is said that options have been secured on all the 

 principal plants manufacturing hickory bandies, 

 and that the toial interest represented amounts 

 io about $3,000,000. Tin- alliance will include 

 every factory In America except one or two un- 

 important ones In Canada. 



The American hickory handle output not only 

 finds a market in the United states but is 

 shipped very largely abroad, even to Africa and 

 Australia, there being no equivalent for Ameri- 

 can hickory growing in any other part of the 

 world. Louisville. Ky.. is fhe logical center of 

 the hickory handle Industry and in that city and 

 vicinity at.- some .,r tbe largest plants in the 

 count ry. 



Important if True. 



It is a well known fact that modern hardwood 



M in- is nowadays cul to very short lengths, 



but probably tb.- statement made by the Battle 

 cre.-k. Mich., Enquirer, qnoted below, is not (rue. 

 Packing flooring in barrels certainly is a new 

 idea. 



Kalamazoo, Mica., July ll- A modern floor 



mill is to I..- located in Kalamazoo if the board 

 of trade can induce the city to sell Its vacant lot 

 in Hie railway yards. The promoters of the 

 enterprise came prepared to erect a plant that 

 will turn out 150 barrels of Hie product a day. 

 A quarter of a million will be invested in the 

 plain, which "ill I"- put on the old Michigan 

 Buggy i lompans site. 



