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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mr. Krinbill is a forest engineer who is doing tiigli-class consulting 

 work in forest engineering and timber cruising, with headquarters at 

 New Bern and Biltmore. 



Dry-Kiln Truck Bulletin 



An attractive bulletin has been issued by the A. H. Andrews Company, 

 115-117 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, descriptive of its roller-bearing 

 di'y-kiln truck and transfer cars. The drier department of this company 

 is in charge of C. .1. Maural. It is well known that next to the dry kiln 

 itself the apparatus for the economic movement of the lumber in and 

 about the kiln is of the greatest importance, and that it is possible to 

 add enormously to the efficiency of the kiln by the proper handling of 

 the lumber in and oul. There must be rapidity and ease of movement, 

 as well as strength, durability and simplicity in the machines. The A. H. 

 Andrews Company has given close and intelligent study to all the details 

 which go to make a complete outfit for this work. 



In the first place, all wheels used in the construction of these trucks 

 and transfer cars are of the roller-bearing type wheels of six or seven- 

 inch diameter, are of malleat-le iron castings, clean and perfect in every 

 respect. Twelve-inch wheels are high grade gra.v iron, and larger wheels 

 are of cast steel. All wheels are double flanged, unless otherwise speci- 

 fied, and run on rails up to forty-five pounds per yard, or heavier it 

 wanted. 



The channel-shaped sleel beam is the logical form of construction for 

 all steel dry kiln trucks. The Andrews trucks have side channel beams 

 of three, four and five inches as required by conditions of service and 

 load. The transfer cars have heavy, five-inch side channel beams for 

 track to track heights from nine and a half to fifteen inches. All parts 

 are interchangeable, which is an important feature and adds to the value 

 of the trucks. 



Careful attention is given to the bracing of all Andrews trucks and 

 transfers, whereby they are made rigid and reliable. The bulletin fully 

 describes the several styles of trucks, with their parts, dimensions, 

 weights and prices. There is likewise much valuable information in 

 regard to proper dry-kiln management, whereby output can be greatly 

 increased without sacrificing qujility or efficiency. 



A New Forestry Book 



The library of books on forestry has been added to by a work just from 

 the press of John Wiley & Sons, New York. It was written by Frederick 

 Franklin Moon and Nelson Courtlandt Brown, who are professors in New 

 York State College of Korestr.v. Syracuse, N. Y. The volume contains 

 about 400 pages, is well illustrated, finely printed, and handsomely bound. 



OUR LINE 



WEST VIRGINIA 



HARDWOODS 



Embraces all the commercial species in 

 this region. 



Being located right at the mill, we know- 

 that every stick we manufacture is manufac- 

 tiired right. 



We solicit the o]:»portunity of proving this 

 claim and offer the following list which 



WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NOW: 



10 cars 4/4 sound wormy chestnut. 

 10 cars 4/4 No. 3 common chestnut. 



5 cars 5/4 sound wormy chestnut. 



5 cars 6/4 sound wormy chestnut. 



3 cars l/2-'ncli slack barrel staves, 40 & 42 inches long. 



1 car 4/4 oak table tops 40 & 43 inches long. 



Alton Lumber Company 



Bucktiannon West Virginia 



The subject is presented from the popular standpoint, yet it supplies the 

 student's wants in the way of technical forestry. The general reader, 

 who never expects to see the inside of a forest school, will find the book 

 entertaining. It gives a good idea of the country's present timber 

 resources, and offers valuable suggestions to those who expect to grow 

 timber for the future. 



The college at Syracvise is taking an active part in forestry work, and 

 though intended principally as a working center for the state of New 

 York, its scope of activities is getting in touch with the whole country. 



West Coast Ties for Egypt 



The British steamer Orauge Elver has been chartered by Thane & Co. 

 of San Francisco, to load railroad ties at Eureka, Cal., and at Puget 

 Sound points for Port Sudan, Egypt. This is the first Pacific coast busi- 

 ness for Kgypt In many years, and it is a direct result of the war block- 

 ade in timber traffic from Baltic and White sea producing regions. 



American Pianos in South Africa 



Consul William .\. Ilaygood recently reported from Cape Town. South 

 Africa, that the effect of the trouble in Europe opens a field for Ameri- 

 can piauos in .\frica, provided the requirements of the trade are com- 

 plied with, tiermany has been suppl.ving sixty per cent of the pianos in 

 that market, and that trade has ceased for the present. Prospective 

 dealers must study the requirements. The pianos must be comparatively 

 light in weight, low in price, and satisfactory in tone, if they are to take 

 th3 place of instruments whicli formerly occupied the market. Hereto- 

 fore less than ten per cent of the pianos sold in South Africa have been 

 of American make. A publication issued some time ago, "Foreign Trade 

 in Musical Instrumi'nts." Special Consular Report, No. ."jii, j.lves infor- 

 mation on that trade In all parts of the world, and it may be olitained 

 from the Superintendent of Dorunifiits, (;ovi'rniM'Tit Printing r>ihce, Wash- 

 ington. D. C, -for ten cents. 



Not Cutting Pencil Slats 



The war has hit hard the rural dwellers in some i)arts of Tennessee, 

 and they have left off looking for cedar stumps, logs, and fence rails 

 suitable for the lead pencil makers. The slats were sold chiefly In 

 Europe, and the war knocked the breath out of the pencil business the 

 first round. The Tcuifessec frontiersman, who had worked at cutting 

 pencil slats much as .some of the mountaineers of West Virginia labor at 

 digging ginseng, speedily got news over the grapevine telegraph that 

 sales were off, and he ijuit slatting iind inrned his attention (■> other 

 lines of business. 



Mt. Mitchell Forests 



The state geological survey of North Carolina has made an appeal to 

 the people of that state to lake stops at once to save the spruce forests 

 on Mt. Jlitchell from destruction by axe and fire. That mountain is the 

 highest point In the United States east of the Mississippi river, and pos- 

 sesses great scenic attractions. The government has purchased the 

 land on both sides of the spruce tracts and has incorporated it in the 

 southern Appalachian park ; but the price of the spruce land is so high 

 that the government will not buy it. 



The timber is about to be cut. and everybody acquainted with lum- 

 bering in the mountains knows that lire will follow the log cutters and 

 will lay the tracts bare, unless meiusures are taken to provide against 

 such an occurrence. If the upper slopes of the mountain are bared by 

 fire, they will degenerate into waste places, gullied and meshed, until 

 they lose the soli that clothes the rocky skeleton. 



The plan is for the legislature to provide laws to protect the forests 

 against lire, so that a force will always 1)0 within calling distance if a 

 fire gets under headway. With that precaution, the damage by burning 

 can usuall.v be kept within small limits, and a forest is not destroyed 

 by lumber operations. 



The Paint Brush Situation 



The upset of trade on aci-ount ot" hostilities has disturlM'il tlie Itrusb 

 trade. The paint brush nmkers are experiencing difficulty in adjusting 

 selling prices to the present cost of the basic material. Bristles from a 

 semlwild hog of Russia and Siberia and also a black hog of China have 

 advanced fifty' per cent since war was declared, on account of the i>ractical 

 stoppage of shipments from those countries. 



Other hairs used in brush industry are also scarce. Caim-l hair is 

 dressed only in Germany ; the trade of dressing this very fine and short 

 hair requires great skill.' It is not known where it can jje secured when 

 the present supply is exhausted. Badger skins from which the badger 

 hair is obtained comes entirely from Russia. The advance in this article 

 is nearly one hundred per cent; in fact, it is not a question of what one 

 has to pay, but whether it can be bought at any figure. 



Germans and others in and around New Y'ork City have been dressing 

 bear hair in large quantities for the past ten .years and as a result the 

 trade is not obliged to purchase in Europe. Ox hair, generally called 

 Siberian ox hair, comes from the inside of cow.s' ears. These ears were 

 formerly taken to <;<ruiany. where the hair was cut out. the skin used 

 for other purposes, and the gristle of the ear used for gelatine. During 

 the last few years the dressinft of cows' ears has been done in t\w United 

 States. 



