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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mnrcb lu, lUlO 



wii« iH-lne uiMTatiNl by ihr II. II. IIIK I.uihImt ••.imiMiny. l>cc«lur, Aln., 

 HiwIiiE hanlwootlt fur (be Hilt ramiMny. 



.\» 111.- lllti rumiuinjr In oprnUnc Ihc planl miibr I.wm-, K HUlTcrml no 



Iimw fr«»iii !hr rtfiv 



W. A. Runge Joins Medford Veneer Company 



W ^ ir ,. . (..imiTly Mir.i:.'> .f ii" Ml- \.i..r r |«uy. Mir- 



rill. > - that be lint. M.-.lf.>nl Vrii<H-r 



«•..!, ■ .nl. \VI«.. to III. Mr. UtmKO I" 



.Mmlfonl. Ilr nlM uiyii ilinl In- l> niili.r l»l<' In K<-ttlnK Ibo 

 •II In n» 111- look on hl« nrw .luilon on I'l'liriiiiry 7. 



Large Chicago Fire Loss 



•ri i^m „t tht- I^tc'kuiMNl \ .>iiri '. ] .1,1 i'..in|Kiiiy, nmniifarluror of 



- noil nilllKork. Forly nlir tnl «lro.-I«, ChlmKO, wim 



iiy fin- on \V«lni-«<lny m-- rob 1. tbo rcHiiltlDK lo"" 



I »I(Hi.mH). Th<- planlnii mill iio.i fniiiiliit:* ili'|>iirliin'nl witi- 

 ,l.-«ln>vi-.l. Imt Ihi- ofllir ImllillOB. wiinOomKi' nml ynril hiti- 



Clarence Boyle, Inc., Makes Mill Connection 



Clnrrnrr lloylo of Ihr linn of Clan-no- lloyli-. Inc.. LiiinlitT ICxchniiBf. 

 fblraco. n-rrnlly r»'lurnf<l from n trip to LoiiUlnnii. whi-rc he iM-rlVcIfil 

 an orranEi-mcnl wllh a mill nl WIIiIkvIIIi- for Us iinniinl cut of :i,1.iMHi.onO 

 fn-t of linnlwool". roniiUlIni: mainly of iniin iiml oak with ii mii^tiiri- 

 of utbtT bnnl»vo.Ml-. 



Chair Factory for Oklahoma Town 

 It Is r<'p<irt.'<l from UkmiilRi-<>. ukln.. that n i-luilr factory will probably 

 be locatwl tbero In the noar future, us a result of preliminary neeutLitlons 

 reJ»ntly rarrle<l on botwe<-n the local Chamber of Commerce and various 

 capltallKlK. A site conveniently lorate<l In the town has been selected. 

 Infonuallon U Inckluu- av lo the blinlliv ..f ibc l-ackers. 



Removes Office to Philadelphia 



The Cherry Klver Kooin & Lumber Comiwny. which has been located at 

 Scrnnlon, I"a., for yearn, announces that on March 3 It moved the sales 

 department of that company and the Ilebard Cypress Company to the 

 Tennsylvanla building. Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, I'hilndelphia. 

 The company requests that all inquiries, remittances and correspondence 

 be addressc<l there. 



West Virginia Mill Opens Up 



The Lewis Lumber ( cuiiiiaiiys plant at .Mlirli;ht, \V. Va.. has resumed 

 operntlon aft.-r t>eing down for several months. Former iicnator Jas. W. 

 Flyno of Kingwood. W. Va.. has been In charge of the affairs of the 

 cre<litor8 while matters were adjusting themselves. W. A. Wilson & Son 

 of Wheeling are operators of the plant. By this time it is running in 

 full blast. 



A Growing Sawmill Village 



Ilarmount, Ilall & Co., are 'installing -iawmllis at *;usii... a ii iwo 



miles above Centraiia <in the Baltimore A: Ohio in West Virginia for the 

 purpose of working up timber on aliout 10.000 acres of lanil. The com- 

 pany Is building this sawmill village, which will be inhabited liy 200 or 

 300 people. It has airiraiiy completed the erection of twenty dwelling 

 houses. 



According to recent reports the frame of the miii Is up ami completion 

 ■wUl be rushed. The structure will lie OOxlOO feet and will be (itted with 

 a double cutting circular saw with a capacity of from 20,000 to 25.000 

 feet daily. The mill wil! be supplied l)y railroad from tlml>er owned 

 by the company. 



It is also stated that the Arcadia Coal & Lumber Company is erecting 

 a mill about one mile above Custis to work up about 2200 acres of 

 hardwoods. 



Starts in Wheel Stock Game 



Joseph H. Wilder announces that alter twenty live years of continuous 

 service with the Royer Wheel Company. Aurora. Ind., he has decided to 

 continue the sale of vehicle wheels and wheel material on his own 

 account. Being long familiar with the making of wheels in every stage 

 of their manufacture. Mr. Wilder is in position to give expert service as 

 well as the best of material. Flc write?, he Is soliciting orders for Sar^'cn. 

 Warner, and compresse<l band light and medium sized wheels in all 

 grades, and that while carload orders are desired he will give careful 

 attention to the smallest orders. 



Among other types of wheels which he can furnish .ire .\rcbibald 

 wheels for all purposes, wheels for Imggage trucks, hand carts, and all 

 wooden wheels for agricultural implements, such as seeders, rakes, etc. 

 Mr. Wilder Is also soliciting orders for heavy wheels with special iron 

 hubs. He has wheel material in the rough or flnlsbod ready to put wheels 

 together. He furnishes this stock in hickory, oak and ash lumber, as 

 rim strips, spokes, billets and as dimension stock of every description. 



Boat Building Corporation Moves Headquarters 



The Great Lakes Boat Building Corporation aiinoiiriccs its acquisition 

 of the shops, yards, organizations, designs and good will of the St. Louis 

 Yacht and Boat Company and the Milwaukee Yacht and Boat Company, 

 both builders of well-known types of boats. The corporatfon has a capital 

 stock of 5120,000 fully paid up. The organization includes men with suc- 

 cessful records in the management of large undertakings, three trained 

 engineers and a naval architect of high standing, and a corps of skilled 



workmen under ■ Kuperlnlendenl with twenty five yean' experience In 

 the coiiHtrucllon of biuii grade boalN. 



The rompany'n plant U loralnl a half mile from Lake .Mlcblgnn on the 

 Kliinlcklnnic river, lietween llecher and <ire<'nbuiih utriN'tH, .Mliwauket-. 

 It U claimed II l> one of the larReat and Ix-iit equlppitl piantii of lla kind 

 In the country. Tiie Kenernl offlcen of the corporation are In the ollice 

 building adjoining, permitting of cioae supervlnion. 



The ynriln o( ovit hlx ncren have a water frontage of 4ltO feet and a depth 

 of 2>lo feci, and Include a dock, yacht basin, 200 ton motor driven marlnr 

 railway, a large crane, ganollnc and oil station, locker houne and other 

 accessory equipment. 



A Lumberman Devoured 



Lumbermen In the country lime their perils b\ lainl and water; but 

 there are wome things for iumliernien In the rhillppine Islandn. according 

 to a news item In an Island luiper. It Kays that l^awrence F. StaiiKh, a 

 logging contractor, recently lost his life l>y attack from a navage crocodile 

 In one of the rivers. There are soifle things that a liinilierman In America 

 should be Ibalikrill fi-r 



International Mill & Timber Company Will Build New Plant 

 The ready-cut house factory of the International .Mill & Timber Com- 

 pany of Bay City, .Mich., which was destroyi-d liy lire a couple of wei-kx 

 ago, will be replaced iniuiedlateiy by a new and larger mill. Ah the 

 spring liiiiiiling season is rapidly approaching, the work on the new 

 plant will be rusheil with all jiossible haste. The ilamage Is estimat<~<l 

 at *1 00.000. 



Merrill Veneer Plant Shut Down 



On account of pending cliange-. In hihI :tdilitlons to the equipment of 

 the plant of the Merrill Veneir Company, Merrill. Wis., the operntlon has 

 been closeil down for a short time. The changes in equipment will be 

 for Ihe purpose of the utiliuition of certain by pro<lucl«. .N. IlesRoKler 

 will be superintendent of the plant as well as a stockholder. 



Wisconsin Company Has New Interior Finish Plant 



The interior liiitsh plant of tin- I'lTiilioIz Lumber (.'oinpany. Jefferson. 

 Wis., which was ri.'cenlly destroyed l^y lire, has been replaced by a modern 

 structure of a tircproof character, at least the structure itself Is up and 

 approaching completion. The plant will employ about fifty men. 



Moving Lumber Electrically 



One of the most recent applications of electric motor power is for the 

 purpose of moving lumber at the Kawmill plants by electrical tractors. It 

 is claimed that one electric tractor performs the work of seven mules 

 and seven drivers und fninlmi'.tes the cost of lumber handling. 



To the end that a proper appreciation of the possibilities of the electric 

 tractor In the sawmill .vanls may l)c gained, A. J. Marshall, secretary 

 of the Electric Vehicle .Association of America, New York, X. Y., has 

 gathered together data showing what has been accomplishwi. 



One of the roost typicjil installation is nt the plant of the Industrial 

 Lumber Company, Kllzabeth. La. This mill has a capacity of about 

 300.000 feet a day. The Indiistrial company after looking Into the 

 expense of hauling of lumber from the mill found tliat it required twenty 

 mules and a corresponding number of men. The company eventually 

 decided to purchase electric tractors. 



The tractors employed have a capacity of seven and a half round 

 trips, or 2.400 feet each per hour, hauling an overage of L.jOO feet of 

 lumber or three-and-a-thlrd tons. 



The Industrial Lumber Company has live miles of tramways run- 

 ning from the mill to all parts of thi> iHfferent .vards, the tramways 

 being from 10 to 20 feet wide and are floored with three-inch timlier. At 

 Ihe mill the tramways are about twenty feet from the ground, sloping 

 to about four feet at the opposite end of the yard. This tramway lumber 

 Is worth aljout ?13 per thousand board feet and cost J5 per hundred for 

 laying. There is a necessary renewal charge for the tramways every 

 three years of about ?25,000. Mr. Marshall raises the point la his 

 analysis that rubber tires use<J on the tractors obviously show a great 

 saving In this renewal Item alone. 



In the hauling of lumber from the dry kilns and sheds to the planing 

 mill, and from there to the freight cars, the use of mules is dlincult and 

 not only hard on the mules, but difficult for the trucks as the hauls are 

 very short and the roads tortuous. The truck has to get l)etween planers 

 and In other narrow places and Into the drying sheds where it is necessary 

 sometimes to back down a narrow aisle. 



The point Is raised that In this class of work the tractor shows the 

 greatest saving, due to Its flexibility of operation In the smaller spaces 

 and the ability to lood and unload quickly. It Is estimated that In one 

 working one tractor displaced seven mules and five men. making thirteen 

 round trips per hour with 1.100 feet of lumber per trip, the average dis- 

 tance covered per round trip being 2,000 feet. It is claimed that in 

 transferring lumber from the dry kilns to the dry sheds, one tractor will 

 do In two hours work that usually took two mules all day to accomplish. 

 Referring again to the case of the Industrial company, it Is esti- 

 mated that the total operating cost for sixteen mules, including feed, 

 shoeing, stable help, labor and repairs to tramways, Is approximately 

 $22,S00 per year, while the operating expense of the three tractors, 

 Including renewal of Iiatterles every year, renewals of tires every year, 

 renewals of chains, gears, etc., labor and repairs to tramways, amounts 

 to $9,717. No current has been figured In the operating costs of the 

 three tractors, as the amount used Is not considered of any great 



