October 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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M. Colson, of Mullita Jlill. N . J< The early part of their married lite wns 

 spent In Camden, but In'llSSfi'thoy removed to Moorestown. 



George G., Brown & Co. Purchase Timber 

 A tract of 2,.t(>0 acrps of. tinibiT in .\rkansas containing the famous 

 St. Francis Basin oali, guBl, ash, liicliory, etc., has l)een purchased by 

 tJeorge C. Brown & Co., 6f Memphis, Tenn., and Proctor, Ark. The Brown 

 company already owns cbnside:.'al)le holdings of hardwood stumpage in 

 Arlcansas, all of it being of tlio St. Francis Basis quality. 



Disastrous Fire at Chicago Flooring Plant 



The plant of the Chicago JIapIo and Oak Flooring Company, located at 

 Ashland avenue and Twenty-second street, was badly damaged by fire on 

 Friday, October 15. The flames started in the dry kilns and destroyed 

 the entire battery of seven, the mill buildings and lumber stored in the 

 yard. It was said by officers of the company that the loss will aiiproxi 

 mate $100,000, which Is fnlly covered by insurance. 



Will Use Statistics for Cheap Building 



It. ,S. Kellogg, secretary of the National Luml»er Manufatttiirers' Associa- 

 tion, recently issued a booklet describing in detail plans for the necessary 

 material and lalmr for tlie construction of a garage at a cost considerably 

 below the cost of ready-built houses of the .same type. He is now making 

 use of this information by personally addressing respective automobile 

 owners explaining tliat lie and his association have no axe to grind other 

 than to tell the Irutli aliout tlie possiliiliti<'s of right building. 



A Maryland Walnut Tree 



A record — a "hardwood record" — was made by the walnut tree shown 

 in the accompanying illustrations. Tliat is to say, it was, until it was 

 felled recently, the largest and tinest specimen of figured walnut left 

 standing in the state of Mai*yland — possibly in tlie whole country. it 

 measured Ave feet six inches in 

 diameter, contained more than 

 seven thousand feet (lioard meas- 

 ure), was perfectly sound and 

 figured in every foot. 



Walnut buyers have had this 

 tree in view for years, but it was 

 not for sale, :ind came into tlie 

 market only recently. It wns the 

 largest of three great walnut trees 

 on an estate situated on the "Nortli 

 Point" shore of the Patapsco river. 

 about eighteen miles east of Haiti 

 more. The other two trees measiii-t'd 

 1,035 and 800 feet respectively. 



The spot is beautiful and historic, 

 being the scene of the "Battle oi' 

 North Point." The Colonial man 

 sion, 130 years old, was the head- 

 quarters of Gen. Ross while the 

 British were landing for the in- 

 vasion of Baltiiuore. In the ensuing iiattle Gen. Ilofs was killed. I'lir 

 house is now used as a club-house and the club members greatly regret the 

 loss of the chief attraction of their grounds, this giant walnut, wbiih 

 they wore fond of pointing out to visitors for its size and anli(piity. 



Walnut trees of this class have become a rarity, and the enthusiasm of 

 the log-raan. as he noted the perfections of this piece of timber, may be 

 imagined. Size, soundness, color and figure to a superlative degree were 

 here, .\lthough lightning had struck the tree, it did almost no damage : 

 the growth was even, symnietrical and ckan. There is cur! throughout 

 but there are no gnarls or abnormalities. Such a piece of wood was a 

 prize and the company .securing it regard themselves as partimlariy foi*- 



tunale. 

 tion hi 



The veneers into which if will b( 

 of immenso beauty and value. 



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Pertinent Information 





THE IIEAIXJT AKTiUtS OF GENER.M. UOSS AT THE "B.VTTI.E (ir 

 NORTH POINT" IN MARYLAND 



Strength of Treated Timbers 



Tlie Forest Service recently completed tests carried out for tlie purpose 

 of determining whether timlier is weakened by preservative treatment, and 

 the result was announced in Bulletin 2.SG, published Sept. 27, 1915. The 

 tiiiiliers used were soMthern yellow pine and Douglas fir, and lieams of large 

 size were employed. Some of the deductions arrived at were as follows: 



Timber may lie very materially weakened by preservative processes. 



Creosote in itself does not appear to weaken timber. 



A preservative process whidi will seriously injure one timber ni:iy have 

 little effect or no effect on the strength of another. 



.\ comiiarison of the effect of a preservative process on tlie strengtli oT 

 dilTerent species should not be made, unless it is th(> common or Ih'sI 

 adapted process for all the species compared. 



The same treatiuent given to a timber of a particular species may have a 

 ilifferent effect upon different pieces of that species, depending upon the 

 fcu-m of the timlier used, its size, and its condition at the time of treat- 

 ment. 



New Railroad Inspection Rules Will Be Hardship for Logging 



Roads 



Tlie Interstate Commi.-rce Coniiuission is considering the adoption of 

 rigid and widely affected ruli's and regulations for instruction and inspec- 

 tion of steam locomotives and tenders, which rules when adopted will 

 apply to all locomotives operated liy common carriers that are engaged in 

 liandling interstate commeree. While it would not appear that there Is 



very much likelihood of this rule 

 alTecting lumbermen in their log- 

 ging operations, a close study of the 

 situation reveals the fact there will 

 probably be innumerable instances 

 wliere the rules for new Inspection 

 iniglit b" unpopular. 



I!. S. Kellogg, secretary of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 .Vssociation, points out an instance 

 of a .southern manufacturer whose 

 tram road operates on less than a 

 •hundred feet of main line of the 

 Georgia, Southern & Florida's main 

 line tracks in common with the line 

 of the logging road. For this rea- 

 son the rules applying to emnmoii 

 carriers have been applied for in- 

 specting the logging locomotives, 

 wliich fact has become very burden- 

 .si.me to the operator. 



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Valuable Bulletin on Cypress 



Till- Department of Agriculture has luildished Bulletin 272 on "Tlie 

 .siouthern Cypress." It was written by Wilbur H. Mattoon, forest examiner. 

 The pamphlet contains seventy-four pages and deals with all phases of the 

 well known southern timber tree, including an account of its geographical 

 range, the available quantity, annual cut, properties and uses of the wood, 

 markets, and prices. Special consideration is given to the life history of 

 the cypress, from the planting and sprouting of the seed to the maturity 

 of the tree. The rate of growth is shown, and suitable and unsuitable 

 soils and situations are described. The ciuunion lielief that cypress thrives 



TWO VIEWS llF THE BIGGEST WAI.NI'T TREE REi'nKDED AS CI'T IN MARI'LAND. TAKEN FRO.M IIEVOI.ITIO.NARV BATTLE GRiUND 



