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HARDWOOD RECORD 



25, 1918 



tionary stakes are used, same to be furnished in two heights only, 8 or 13" 

 over top of Iron. Any manufacturer may have the privilege of using in 

 place of the stationary stalse ap adjustable or removable stake, but not 

 both types. 



Valley wagons are to be madejn three sizes : light, 3000 pounds ; stand- 

 ard, 4500; heavy, 6000; in every other respect dimensions are to be the 

 same as in the farm wagons. 



Mountain wagons will be made in four capacities : light, 2500 pounds ; 

 medium, 4000 ; standard, 5500 ; heavy, 7000. Other dimensions are the 

 same as for farm wagons. 



One-horse wagons are to be in three capacities : light, 1000 pounds ; 

 medium, 1250 : heavy, 1500. ,The track shall be 56", measured from 

 center to center of the tires on the ground ; stakes, 10" high and 38" 

 apart : rectangular reach ; front gear to be of cross-bar construction to 

 take either pole or shafts. 



Farm trucks shall measure 56" from center to center of the tires on 

 the ground ; stakes, 38" apart and 8 or 13" high ; rectangular reach ; to be 

 of the drop tongue type only. If stiff pole is wanted furnish only the drop 

 pole with either yoke or chains, adding wood or metal stiftener bar on top 

 and below hounds. 



Steel axles may be substituted In place of wood axles on farm, valley 

 or mountain wagons, or on one-horse wagons, as provided for in present 

 standardization. Specifications and construction otherwise to conform 

 in every way to those herein mentioned. 



Wheels — For all two-horse farm, valley and mountain wagons wheels 

 shall be furnished In three diameters only, namely, 40", 44" and 48". 



All 40" wheels shall be built with 12 spokes only. 



All 44" wheels may be built with either 12 or 14 spokes, but not both 

 on any one capacity of wagon. 



All 48" wheels may be built with either 12 or 14 spokes, but not both 

 on any one capacity of wagon. 



Ail 48" wheels shall be built with 14 spokes. 



The use of front and rear wheels of the same diameter would be of 

 great advantage to the user, dealer and manufacturer of both raw and 

 finished material and whatever is necessary to accomplish this result 

 should be encouraged. 



For one-horse wagons two diameters of wheels only to be furnished, 

 namely, 40 and 44". 



Two diameters of wheels only are to be furnished farm trucks in the 

 wood type, namely, 36" and 40", with 12 spokes only. 



All two-horse farm, valley and mountaini wagons shall be Turnished in 

 three dimaters only, namely, 40", 44" and 48". 



With the regular number of- spokes sarven wheels may be substituted 

 in place of the ordinary type of farm wagon wheel. 



Under the terms of the standardization no wheels, except for repairs, 

 shall be furnished with bois d'arc felloes after January 1, 1920. These 

 felloes, often called bodark or Osage orange, have been extensively used 

 on wagons intended for the hot southwestern country, in Texas, Okla- 

 homa, New Mexico and Kansas, because this wood shrinks but little and 

 tires remain tight better than when made of other woods. The manu- 

 fa<!turer usually received about fifteen dollars extra for a wagon with bois 

 d'arc felloes, and the search for the wood was keen in Texas and Okla- 

 homa where this wood is obtained. It is probable that wagon makers 

 have agreed to quit using bois d'arc in wagon wheels because of the 

 increasing difficulty in procuring it. 



Timber Resources of the British Isles 



A London trade paper thus speaks of the home timber resources: 



The opinions prevalent before the war as to our home trade resources 



have proved by the 

 and were based on impe 

 the confident statements, 

 were cut off. our coal m 

 the manufactories would 

 country has been at wii 

 far from correct. Last y 

 imported, as compared w 

 loads for the year 1914 

 been met by no less a quantit 



of the past year to have been erroneous, 

 imivbilKf We were ourselves misled by 

 ■f tiif ^ii). plies of pitwood from overseas 

 III 111, I ,1 brief period shut down, and 

 i : \V.- are glad to find after this 



' I) years that this statement is 



■ 1.1 :i:i HI loads of mining timber were 



.■ .uii.^i.oiiding importation of 2,477,000 

 this considerable saving in tonnage has 

 _ _ _ than Just under 2,000,000 tons being pro- 

 duced during 1917 from British forests. We hear on good authority that 

 as thp ri-siilt fif a recent careful survey of standing timber in the United 

 Kin-.l I i jii liilril the necessary labor and transport can bj found, there 



1- ' I I ■■ iiixietv for many years ahead in regard to the ability to 



Mi; ■ -~:irv pitwood to our mihes. As regards sawn wood, it is 



. -1 1. are now producing at the rate of between 400,000 and 



.' -I, II, Ji Ills i)pr annum, which speaks very well for the energy dis- 



plavcil iiv those merchants who have turned their efforts in this time of 

 stress to the exploitation of home-grown woods. It Is consoling, also, to 

 know that concurrently with this rate of production, there are good re- 

 serves of soft woods, while as regards hard woods, in the shape of oak. 

 elm, beech, and chestnut, etc., there is an enormous quantity available. 



New Lumber Company Opens Wholesale Yard 



The H. F. Below Lumber Company of Stanley, Wis., has opened a whole- 

 sale lumber yard on the grounds formerly used by the Roper Cedar Com- 

 pany in Menominee. The office of the company was opened lately. It is 

 located above the Farmers' and Merchants' bank in Marinette, where the 

 company has a suite of fine offices. The company has distributing offices 

 in several cities and has sales offices in Chicago and Detroit. 



Tallest Flagpole on Earth 



The Kew Botanical Gardens in England were . long credited with the 

 tallest flagpole on earth, it being 215 feet high, of Douglas flr cut on the 

 Pacific coast. That record has been ceihpletely smashed. Camp Lewis, 

 near Tacoma, Wash., recently erected A Douglas fir flagpole- 300 feet high. 

 Tacoma has a mania fur high things and claims the loftiest smokestack 



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Hardwood News Notes 



< MISCELLANEOUS > 



The war department is establishing three camps of 1.200 colored men, 

 from labor battalions, in PIsgah national forest for the purpose of cutting 

 and shipping fire wood to the various cantonments and training camps. 

 Most of these men are already at work in the national forest. 



The death Is announced of W. L. Gillette, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Louisville Oak Flooring Company, Louisville, Ky. 



The Clement Ross Manufacturing Company, Cheraw, S. C, is reported 

 to have sustained a fire loss. 



The Croghan Flooriug & Manufacturing Company has been incorporated 

 at Croghan, N. Y. 



The Moore Box Company recently began business at Jackson, Miss. 



The capital stock of R. Young Brothers Lumber Company, Whiteplains, 

 N. Y., has been increased to $200,000. 



The president of the Western Tie & Timber Company, C. F. Collins, 

 St. Louis, Mo., died recently. 



The capitalization of the Brooke-Morris Lumber Company, Crockett, 

 Tex., has been decreased to $l.^,000. 



=-< CHICAGO >• 



It is announced in Chicago that the Ililgard Lumber Company with 

 ices in the McCormIck building, has opened an extensive hardwood depart- 

 ;nt, which is in charge of L. L. Gore. 



M. Wm. Davis of the Davis Hardwood Company, San Francisco, Cal., 

 IS one of the prominent visitors to the meeting last week. Mr. Davis 

 ys that things are booming in the West mainly on account of the ship- 

 ilding activity. This company is a prominent handler of Philippine 

 ihogany. In fact, Mr. Davis is considered the Philippine mahogany 



Among the prominent consumers present at the National meeting was 

 S. M. Stamats, assistant purchasing agent of The Willys-Overland Com- 

 pany, Toledo, O. 



V. E. Porter, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the E. L. 

 Hendrick Lumber Company, Oakvale, Miss., was in the city for the 

 National meeting, Mr. Porter says that his company is located in the 

 pine belt and Is now developing hardwood resources and 'has been in 

 active operation with a modern band mill for the past year. 



Illustrating the active way in which large southern pine operators are 

 going into the hardwood end, the presence at the Chicago convention of a 

 number of prominent hardwood lumbermen now associated in hardwood 

 departments of large pine operators brings the realization of that develop- 

 ment home. Among such men are H. M. Hayward of the Long-Bell Lum- 

 ber Company, manager hardwood department, Kansas City, Mo. ; F. T. 

 Becks and C. B. Talbot of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company of East 

 St. Louis, 111. Mr. Beck is manager of the cypress and hardwood depart- 

 ment located at East St. Louis, while Mr. Talbot is the Detroit represen- 

 tative, having offices in the David Whitney building. Both men say that 

 the company is turning out a great quantity of stock in hardwoods, which 

 will run from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 feet a year. 



Another prominent pine Arm now manufacturing its hardwood stumpage 

 is the T. C. Cianton Lumber Company, Inc., Shreveport, La. A. O. Davis, 

 secretary of the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club, formerly 

 associated with Texas firms, is manager of the hardwood department of 

 this company, having accepted this position a couple of months ago. 



W. T. Roberts heads the hardwood department of the Gates Lumber 

 Company of Wilmar, Ark. This company has a good many years ahead 

 of it in the hardwood manufacturing business, having been a pine concern, 

 but now pretty well cut out on its pine stumpage, and Is now producing 

 about 50,000 feet of hardwoods a day. 



Word comes from East St. Louis, 111., that the plant with a considerable 

 quantity of gunstocks manufactured by the Illinois Walnut Company was 

 destroyed by fire on the night of June 19. It is believed that incendiarism 

 was responsible. This plant was formerly known as the East St. Louis 

 Walnut Company, large manufacturer of gunstocks and other walnut 



L. D. Gotshall of the Gotshall Manufacturing Company, Toledo, O., and 

 E. W. Worman of the Wood Products Company, Sandusky, 0., paid IIaro- 

 wooo Record offices a visit during their stay at the convention. Tbese 

 geiitliiiicii described a rather interesting situation so far as Ohio participa- 

 liiiii 111 (hr li;i nlwiiod industry is concerned. Ohio is not generally con- 

 sii! I ., |ii,„iiiriivi> of very much hardwood lumber, but according to the 

 St ■ 1,1- ,,i iiiisi' men, who are prominent Ohio manufacturers, they are 



1111 I',,:: ,uii 11 viiy considerable quantity of lumber from Ohio logs regu- 



