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HARDWOOD RECORD 



eursionists and it goes without saying that a 

 rich pleasure trip is in store for the members of 

 the order. The Supreme Nine has adopted the 

 following program for the annual meeting : 



Friday, September 8 — Annual business assem- 

 bly of Osirian Cloister at 9 :09 a. m. After- 

 noon — Annual Osirian Cloister initiatory cere- 

 monies at 2 :30 p. m. Evening — Annual Osirian 

 Cloister banquet. 



Saturday. September 9 — Beginning of Hoo-Hoo 

 business sessions at 9 :09 a. m.. continuing to 

 12 :30 p. m. Afternoon — Social entertainments 

 and visiting with our hosts at Portland. Even- 

 ing — Annual Hoo-Hoo concatenation and "session 

 on the roof." (The concatenation will be held at 

 fix- Armory, six blocks from the principal hotel). 



Sunday. September 10 — The entire day will be 

 given up to such social entertainment and pleas- 

 ure as will be provided by our Portland hosts, 

 seeing the exposition, visiting points of Interest 

 about the city, etc. Evening — Boiling Arthur 

 Johnson's "Stmy of IIoo-Hoo" (Illustrated Btere 

 opticon lecture) In the Auditorium on the expo 

 sition grounds. 



Monday, September 11 — Hoo-Hoo business ses- 

 sions at 12 :.'lo p. m. Afternoon — Entertainment 

 features, visit to exposition grounds, etc. Oven 

 Ing — Visitors in a body will repair to "The 

 i lakes," the celebrati'd pleasure park of Port 

 land, where all sons of entertainment features 

 are In full blast. 



esilny. September 12 — Business sessions all 

 day it' necessary, to reach a conclusion. Bven 

 Ing Moonlight excursion on river. 



Wednesday. September IS— Pinal sightseeing 

 visif to the fair. Evening -"lilt the trail." 



Reforestry in Nebraska. 



The state of Nebraska lias 268, acres of 



planted timber, according to the figures returned 

 by the assessor for 1004, 248,000 of which are 

 in the territory east of the ninety-ninth meri- 

 dian. This Is slightly more than one per cent of 

 the total area of the Btate. This timber area 

 •■.1st of the ninety-ninth meridian as a whole is 

 said to tie decreasing, owing to the fact that 

 many of the old plantations* are being cleared, 

 and very little planting is being done to replace 

 them. There has been a notable decline in forest 

 planting since 1894, although nursery men gei 

 • ■rally agree that there is e revival of Interest 

 in tree plaining at the present time. 



It has been found that the most promising 

 trees tor economical planting in the region named 

 are Cottonwood and willow for fuel; and catalpa. 

 osage orange, honey locust, green :ish, European 



larch, and red cedar for posts. On g l bottom 



soil cottonwood will produce three cords of 

 wood per acre annually for the first twenty-five 

 or thirty years, willow does not yield quite so 

 heavily, but its fuel value is somewhat higher. 

 Catalpa is given first place wherever it will 

 grow, and it Bucceeds admirably on a large 

 portion of the soil of that region. 



The Robinson plantation at Pawnee City is 



said to yield $15 pet acre annually, and it is 

 but fourteen years old. John Heine at Ulysses. 

 New., is selling $207 worth of posts per acre 

 from Ills nineteen year-old plantation. Another 

 catalpa plantation In Nemaha county, twentj live 

 years old, has doi ven better than the Robin- 

 son plantation. All of these growths an 



upland. There bas been considerable experi- 

 mentation with the planting of trees for timber 

 purposes In Nebraska, and it is conceded that 

 the mi able varieties are cottonwood and 



black walnut. 



There Is I ther point that has been made 



prominent by a review of the efforts that have 

 been made in timber planting In Nebraska, and 

 that is the value these timber areas possess as 

 windbreaks for the protection oi Held crops 



area, but by the recent acquisition of adjoiuiug 

 property formerly occupied by the Parry Buggy 

 •X: Wagon Company, it will soon cover over four 

 blocks, and will be the largest plant in the 

 world devoted to saw making. 



This enlargement of the plant is impelled by 

 the growing demand for the famous Silver Steel 

 saws. 1 luring the past year the call for the 

 Atkins brand of goods has been increasing so 

 rapidly that an enlargement of the plant became 

 necessary, and the new property was therefore 

 purchased. After being thoroughly remodeled 

 and repaired, these buildings will be occupied by 

 i In' band saw. filing and shipping departments. 

 which at present are badly handicapped for want 

 of room. A general reorganization of the de- 

 partments will be effected. The large machine 

 shop will be divided into two sections, one for 

 repair work and the other for general manu- 

 facture. Another important change will be in 

 the shipping department, which will occupy the 

 entire ground floor, thus relieving the congested 

 condition of the tiling room in the cross-cut 

 section by nearly doubling its present allotted 

 space. 



"Stoic room:' ~.<],\ Nelson A, Gladding, vice 

 president and sales manager, who was acting 

 ode to a ELutDwoon Rbcobd man through 

 the plant and over the new property. "Why. 

 that is a word we don't know the meaning of, 

 for we ship jusl as fasl us we can manufacture. 

 and then have trouble in keeping up with 

 I wish we could maintain a store 

 room, but business Is too good for that." 



Enlargement of Atkins Saw Plant. 

 After sept, l the enormous plant of IS, C. 

 Atkins & Co.. Inc., at Indll will be al- 



flonbled hi size, it now covers ;i greal 



Information Sought by Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor. 

 John M. Carson, chief of the bureau of 

 manufactures of the Department of Commerce 

 and Labor, in accordance with the arrangement 

 made with the National Lumber Manufacturers 

 Association, Is sending out to lumber manufac 

 - throughout the United States the follow- 

 ing iisi of , |iiesi tons on a blank, which they are 

 asked to answer and return to this bureau at 

 Washington. These replies will be arranged In 



:• iprehensive and accurate card index, which 



will enable the department to furnish upon ap- 

 plication Information desired by manufacturers 

 or Intending purchasers, and it is contemplated 

 to extend the system to the principal consulates, 

 If necessary authority ..hall he granted by Con- 

 gress. It is thought that the system will mate- 

 rially assist in the expansion of our foreign 

 trade 



The various questions Involved in the blank 

 are as follows : 



1 Name and address (main office). 



2. Location of branch establishments. 



3. Description of product. 



4. Capital. 



5. Capacity per day. month or year. 



G. Where product is sold (If abroad, give coun- 

 tries and ports to which shipped). 

 7. Any other information. 



Government Experiment in the Plains 

 Country. 



To a vast region, such as that In which Ne- 

 braska and South Dakota are located, where 

 the growing of trees has been a problem for 

 with but meager results, ii is not to be 

 wondered at that the people are enthused at 

 • \|i liments being made by the government 

 along this line. 



In the early days of the settlement of these 

 states great difficulty was experienced in 

 finding trees which would thrive under the 

 unfavorable, climatic conditions at that time. 

 Now, however, under the more equable cli- 

 mate and the gradually Increasing rainfall 

 due largely to the extensive cultivation of the 

 soil, trees have attained quite generous pro- 

 portions. 



The government has located an experiment 

 station for trees adaptable for growth in the 



plains country in the north central part of 

 Nebraska and has experts in various parts of 

 the northern tier of counties in Nebraska anil 

 in South Dakota. They planted, this spring, 

 varieties of seedlings and are watching their 

 growth with great interest. Ash. cotton- 

 wood and maple are the favorites, although it 

 has been demonstrated that the evergreens, 

 with care, will thrive. The railroads, too, are 

 interested in the movement, and many lines 

 have planted rows of trees along their right of 

 way and have them cared for by section men. 

 Farmers of the locality are planting small 

 groves, mostly of the soft woods, with good 

 success. 



Ottawa Outing. 



The- midsummer meeting of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, held 

 ..t Ottawa, (int.. Aug. 16, IT and IS. was car- 

 ried out according to the program previously 

 published in the Habdwood Record. The Ot- 

 tawa lumber dealers proved to be great hosts. 

 and the affair was one of the most delightful 

 ever participated in by a body of lumbermen. 



The sail on the Ottawa river on Aug. 16, the 

 drive about the city of Ottawa on the 17th. 

 and the sail on Lake Deschanes on the 18th. 

 till proved tours of particular delight. The 

 banquet :i( the Russell House on the evening 

 of the 17th was a function that will not soon 

 be forgotten by the American guests. 



While considerable business was transacted. 

 He ill. hi was essentially :iu outing, as was 

 intended by Gordon C. Edwards, the chairman 

 oi the committee which invited the associa- 

 tion at its Philadelphia meeting last March 

 to join tie- Ottawa dealers at this time. It 

 j It that the meeting will result in much 



■-: I to both the American and Canadian 



members of the association in drawing them 

 closer together in commercial and social rela- 

 tions. 



Characteristics of Various Woods. 

 An exchange is authority for the following 



resume 1 of (he commercial value and properties 

 of the following woods: 



Plasticity. Ash. hickory, hazel, lancewood. 

 chestnut (small), yew, snakewood. 



Elasticity and toughness. — Onk, beech, elm. 

 lignum vita', walnut, hornbeam. 



Even grain (for carving or engraving). — Pear, 

 pine, box, lime tree. 



Durability (in dry works). — Cedar, oak, pop- 

 lar, yellow pine, chestnut. 



Building (ship building).- Cedar, pine (deal). 

 fir, larch, elm, oak, locust, teak. Wet con- 

 struction, as piles, foundations, flumes, etc. — Elm. 

 alder, beech, oak, plane tree, white cedar. House 

 building.— Pine, oak, whitewood. chestnut, ash. 

 spruce, sycamore. 



Machinery and millwork (frames). — Ash. 



I ch, birch, pin.-, elm, oak. Hollers, etc. — 



Boxwood, lignum vita', mahogany. Teeth of 

 wheels, — Crabtree, hornbeam, locust. Foundry 

 patterns. Alder, pine, mahogany. 



furniture i common).- -Beech, birch, cedar, 

 cherry, pine, whltew ond. Best furniture. — Am 

 bovn.i, black ebony, mahogany, cherry, maple. 



walnut, oak. rosewood, satinw 1, sandalwood. 



chestnut, cedar, tulip wood, zebra wood, ebony. 



of these varieties, those that enter chiefly Into 

 commerce in this country are oak, hickory, ash. 

 Mil. cedar, black walnut, maple, cherry and but- 

 ternut. 



National Forest Service. 

 A circular of the Bureau of Forestry states 

 that work upon the forest reserves offers good 

 an, I Increasing opportunity lor men of the right 

 sort The future organization will include forest 

 supervisors at $1,800 i" $2,000 g year, deputy 

 forest, supervisors at $1,500 to .$1,700, forest 

 rangers :tt $1,200 to $1,400, deputy forest rang 

 .is at .ill, (Kin to SI. inn and assistant forest 

 rangers at $800 to $1 The law requires that 



