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entire list of manufacturing enterprises is 



supplied from one power plant, which con 

 sists of a 350 H. P. upright, water tube 

 boiler, actuating a 24x48 Corliss engine. The 

 engine is belted direct to the planing mill, and 



by means of a rope drive to the sawmill, while 

 it also actuates a large dynamo which supplies 

 the electric current which drives tin- individual 

 machines in the flooring plant an. I the other 

 factories enumerated. This engine is in con- 

 stant service from Monday morning t.. the fol 

 lowing Sunday morning, although but a small 

 number of the plants are run at night. 



While referring tn the Bliss & Van Auken 

 enterprises, it may lie -tated that the logs with 

 which this mill is supplied are delivered from 

 the company's timber purchase at Haakwood, 

 on the Mackinaw division of the Michigan 

 Central, by train,, ami are dumped into a 

 steamd'.eated log pond contiguous to the mill. 

 The flooring plant is a small and compact one 

 which produces about 18,000 feet of maple 

 flooring in a ten hour run. Every machine 

 has direct motor connection. The system em 

 ployed in making flooring at this plant is 

 what is known as the edge tongue and groov- 



ing. The maple lumber as it comes from the 

 dry kiln is stripped and the knot defects cut 

 out. The strips are then double surfaced en a 

 Hoyt machine; they are then end 

 matched, ami tie best surface scraped. The 

 next operation consists in tonguing a 

 ing, which is performed on a fast running 

 Hoyl edge matcher, manufactured, like the 

 other Soyl tools, by the American Woodwork- 

 ing Machinery Company. This machine 

 dresses and matches, hollow-backs and bi 

 foi blind nailing. The floor m i 'lei 



rted, and the bundles an- transferred to 



the warehouse h\ means of an endless 

 conveyot Ml the flooring is loaded into cars 

 under cover. 



Bliss & Van Auken have achieved a 



high reputation in tie production of their 

 brand of "Wolverine" maple flooring, and 

 while it is distributed well over the United 

 stilt, s. the chief portion of it is mi 

 through tin' New Vurk office i" the eastern 



trade. 



The halftone pictures presented in ■ 



tibn with this article illustrate very fully the 

 various details nf sawmill, dry kiln and 

 flooring plants. 



'Builders of Lumber History. 



Howell C. Humphrey. 

 (See Portrait supplement.) 



At Fox Lake, Wis., in May, 1858, was born 

 to Evan E. Jones and wife a boy who was 

 afterward to be known as Howell C. Humph 

 • c-y. This boy was not only to bring honor 

 to the name of a foster father but make a 

 place for himself in the hardwood lumber in- 

 dustry, which predicates application, observa- 

 tion, method, courtesy, punctuality and dis- 

 patch. 



His father died when he was one -ear old 

 ami his mother when he was three leaving 

 three boys: George W. Jones, now president 

 of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Ap- 

 pleton, Wis.; Franklin P. Jones, who died in 

 1901, and the youngest. Howell, who was 

 adopted by H. E. Humphrey of Ixonia, Wis., 

 whose name he took, ami who is the subject 

 of the portrait supplement of this issue of the 

 Hardwood Eecord. 



The elder Humphrey, although childless, has 

 a great love for children, and during his long 

 lite has adopted and raised ten. lie has been 



very kind to all his charges, gave them g 1 



educations, and when they reached their ma- 

 jority, gave them a start in business and sent 

 them forth well equipped to tight the bi 

 of life. 



Mr. Humphrey, a man in comparative!} 

 moderate circumstances, was agent for I 

 M. A; St. P. K. K. for well toward half a 

 century at the little town of lxouia. a short 

 distance west of Milwaukee, and it was in 

 the logical course of events that when his 

 adopted sou and namesake left school at the 

 age of eighteen, he should look to his foster 

 father's business in life as his own VOi 



NUMBER XVI. 



After learning telegraphy young Humphrej 

 went tu Clintonville, Wis., where he joined his 

 brother, George W. Jones, and engaged in 

 buying and selling grain, produce and camp 

 Supplies. He stayed there only a year, when 

 he sold out his small investment and went to 

 Si. nth Dakota, where he remained two 

 as Station agent at Aberdeen. In lss;; he was 

 employed by the Northern Pacific as station 

 neeiit ;ii North Yakima. Wash. He held this 

 position until June. 1895, when he came 

 .iiel again associated himself with his brother 

 in the C. W. Jones Lumber Company at Ap 

 pleton. of which he is now vice president. This 

 rune, 'in is Massed as of tl" most promi- 

 nent ill Hie north country. The general office 

 of the company is at Appl ton. The house 

 not mil} buys timber land and manufactures 



hardwood lumber, but i1 is also a huge buyer 

 of „iill stocks. It handles approximate^ 10, 



teei ,,t hardwood lumber annuallj 



it-, sawmill at Wabeno, Porest county, cuts 



aim ut lH.i feet a year. 



During • 1904 Mr. Humphrey, in 



connection with his associates, acquired large 

 timber holdings in Arkansas and organized 

 Wisarkana Lumber Company with a 

 mill at Nettleton in thai state. While this 

 operation is not fully .level. .pel it is already 



producing 7. I of " :lk ' •-'"" : ""' 



hickory annually, and has timber which will 

 last full* hit. en years. 



M, Humphrey has been twice honored with 



H„. presidi m | oi the Wisconsin llardw I 



Lumber Association, from which office i, 

 tired at the last annual meeting at Milwa 



,,v is a charter member - 

 ,;,,,,;,! Hardwood Lumber Association, and at 



its last anneal meeting held in Hullai 

 May. he was elected t,. the office id Becond 



president. He has alws .inch 



interested in association work, and has .1. 

 leal of turn stud) and 

 application of correct principles 1. 1 hardwood 

 grading. lb is an exceptionally g I pre- 

 siding officer and dispatches hi. Only 

 with great care but with rapidity, lb- i- very 

 ]. i, pillar with both tii, tions with '.'.hi.Ti 

 allied, and his high character 



ness acumen arc liighlj regarded ' 



seriates. 



Mr. Humphrey is entirely domestic in Ins 



tast.s; he is married, has one daughter and 

 devotes ins t ■ exclusivi I amil\ ami 



hi- Inisiiirss. \s a man , ' ■ i ! i . • — 1 1 ill 



ing ami quiel in his manner, ami whili 

 s.ssing very strong convictions, he is bo dip 



i, -in :u i, in hi- expressi t them as t,, ■- 



him extremely popular not only witl 

 era! public but with his competitors a- well. 

 While he has always strived t.,r excellence in 

 ailing. In- has not failed to enrich his 

 whole capital as a man. lb- early I 



t,, be worth while in the commercial 

 world ime must keep on gn.w ing. and whil. 

 already well up the ladder in hardw.io.l , 



rcial history, he is recognized by every one 



who ImOWS him as a coming man in the V 



can hardweiid in, Inst i\ 



ANECDOTE ANV INCIDENT. 



Eyesight Still All Right. 

 The conversation in a Chicago lumberman's 



office a few days ago was turned to the al 



leged failing sight of a prominent Michigan 

 buyer of hardwoods. <>no individual state, 1 

 that he had been informed that the man's 

 sight was s,, serh.nsh unpaired that he «a« 



scarcel] able to see ins hand before ins I 

 Vnother dealer present scouted the inform! 

 ti.in as being falsi in everj particular, and 



observed that he had shipped him a . ar of 

 lumber only a few weeks ago, and that the 

 Michigan man had discovered all tl 



that exist., I in it and has that didn 't. ' ' lb 

 has him i failed t., see anything I havt 

 shipped him, and I think his eyesight is all 

 right. ' ' he concl 



Beech Trees Immune from Lightning. 



\n Indiana newspaper is authority for th.- 



Statement that lightning never strikes i 



trees. While J0V6 *S powerful belts fpspiont 



lv ihstr.iv th. oak, tir. bu il d in g! 



without respect to km, I ..r use. defy lightning 

 r ,,,U, and even bum »n at patches in fields of 

 growing grain " '" n8TI 



respect for the beech tr* It ' 'hat 



this fact "as well known to the ab.rij 

 and that upon the approach of an • h 

 storm the Indian invariably broke for the 



shelter of a beech If tins f;n t be true. 



Hcieni . has utterly failed 



plain i 



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