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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Annual National Veneer & Panel Manufac- 

 turers' Association. 



The annual meeting of the National Veneer 

 & Panel Manufacturers' Association will be 

 held at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, at 10 

 a. m. Tuesday. Dec. 11. There will undoubt- 

 edly be a large attendance, as the association, 

 though only about a year old. has grown rap- 

 idly, and the members are enthusiastic oyer 

 the work already accomplished. D. E. Kline 

 of Louisville, Ky.. is president; J. A. Under- 

 wood of Wausau, Wis., first vice president; 

 and E. H. Defebaugh of Louisville, Ky.. secre- 



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Hot Log Pond. 



In- response to numerous inquiries for details 

 "ii the arrangement of a hot log pond, the 

 attached plan is submitted. The Hardwood 

 Record is indebted to the M. Garland Company, 

 the well-known sawmill and power transmission 

 machinery manufacturing house of Bay City. 

 Mich., for the suggestion. 



This type of pond is almost indispensable in 

 northern latitudes for storing logs in winter, 

 and Willi the steam shut off is equally con- 

 venient for summer use. The steam is supplied 

 from the exhaust pipe of the engine. As noted, 

 the four or five inch pipe is suspended from 

 eighteen to twenty-four inches below the water 

 line. At approximately every twenty-five feet 



and red oak, poplar, hickory and other woods. 

 Early in the coming year active work will be 

 undertaken on the property, when a few miles 

 of standard gauge mad will be built and a mod- 

 ern band mill of 10.000 feet daily capacity will 

 ue erected. Veneer and dimension mills will 

 also be installed. For the present temporary 

 offices will be maintained at Zanesville, in charge 

 of S. Mills, Jr. 



Semiannual Southern Cypress Manufac- 

 turers' Association. 



The morning session of the semi-annual 

 meeting of the Southern Cypress Manufac- 

 turers' Association was called to order at 11 

 A. M., Nov. 14, in the office of that organiza- 

 tion. Hibernian Bank building, New Orleans, 

 President Frederic Wilbert in the chair, and 

 representatives of twenty-seven operations in 

 atti ndance. 



The report of Secretary George E. Watson 

 showed that eleven new members have been 

 added to the roll since the annua] meeting in 

 May last, and that several applications are 

 now on file to be acted upon. The work of 

 the statistical and traffic departments was 

 covered thoroughly, showing those branches 

 to' be in excellent working order. Mr. Watson 

 also read the report of Treasurer George W. 

 Dodge, which showed a satisfactory financial 

 condition, and which was promptly adopted. 



introduced into the terms of sale, authorizing 

 inspectors to adjust disputes between buyers 

 and sellers regarding grades, and requiring the 

 loser in such cases to pay the cost of adjust- 

 ment. 



On November 15 the association members 

 were taken by special train to Lutcher, La., to 

 visit the plant of the Lutcher & Moore Cypress 

 Lumber Company; thence to Garyville to in- 

 spect the plant of the Lyon Cypress Lumber 

 i 'ompany. 



A Progressive Road. 



( if the 1,109,055 tons of freight carried by 

 the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad in 1906, 

 eleven per cent was lumber and forty-two per 

 cent forest products other than lumber — un- 

 sawed logs, pulp wood, etc. This road runs 

 from Bay City, Mich., north along the west 

 shore of Lake Huron, and thence northwest to 

 Cheboygan, 195 miles. There are 148 miles of 

 short branches, most of which were built to 

 open up timber lands. The great proportion 

 of the timber is hardwood and hemlock, as 

 from Presque Isle county northwest the road 

 taps the strip which runs north and south 

 through most of the lower peninsula of Michi- 

 gan. 



During the year seventeen miles of new 

 branches were built and five miles of branches 

 taken up. Maintenance of way cost $200,400. 

 an increase of $13,600. During the past year 



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PLAN FOE HOT LOG POND, DESIGNED AND ISl'.D I'.Y Till: M. CAKLAND COMPANY "F BAY CITY, MICH. 



a two-foot length of smaller pipe is extended 

 from it two or three feet into the pond. The 

 end pipe extending from the steam main should 

 be placed on an elbow, and when the engine 

 is shut down it should be turned up so as- to 

 avoid a vacuum ; or a valve can be placed in 

 the' exhaust 4)ipe near the engine and closed 

 when the engine is stopped. 



The pond should be of a depth of Ave to six 

 feet and when expedient should be arranged 

 so that it may be drained occasionally, thus 

 permitting bark and other debris, which always 

 accumulate in the bottom of a log pond, to be 

 cleaned* out. 



The drawing accompanying this article needs 

 very little explanation. 



New West Virginia Company. 



The Shenandoah Lumber Company has been 

 organized at I'arkersburg, YV. Ya., with a capi- 

 tal stock of $1,000,1 , of which amount $750, 



000 has been paid in. The officers are: Presi- 

 dent. C. E. Bryan. I'arkersburg, W. Ya. ; vice 

 president and manager. S. Mills. Jr., Zanesville, 

 O. ; 'secretary and treasurer, G. W. McElfresh, 

 Caldwell. O. Mr. Bryan is superintendent of 

 the Ohio River divison of the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroad; Mr. Mills secretary and treasurer of 

 the Bradley-Mills Company, prominent lumber 

 wholesalers of Zanesville; and Mr. McElfresh 

 is a well known banker of Caldwell, O. 



The company owns 23,000 acres of virgin 

 timber land i ontaining a rich growth of white 



R. H. Downman. chairman of the transpor- 

 tation committee, reported the present status 

 of the car stake matter now before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, and stated an 

 encouraging feature is the fact that several 

 local roads are at present making experiments 

 in a New Orleans yard with permanent stakes 

 for flat and gondola oars, and that so far the 

 equipment seems efficient and satisfactory. 



The matter of rain allowance on lumber 

 shipments was taken up. it having been rum- 

 ored that certain roads had its discontinuance 

 in view. The railroad committee was author- 

 ized to consult with the Louisiana Railroad 

 Commission, and exert its influence for uniform 

 r-ain allowance on all railroads; also to secure 

 a decision from the commission requiring the 

 acceptance of shippers' weights at such points 

 as are not provided with track scales. 



Dr. Herman von Schrenk, of the Forest Ser- 

 vice, addressed the association on the subject 

 of tupelo gum. its physical qualities and the 

 progress of his experiments with the wood. 

 His remarks were timely and authoritative and 

 based on knowledge gained by exhaustive 

 study and practical experience. 

 . Chairman Bruce, of the grading rules com- 

 mittee, opened the afternoon session with his 

 report, which showed that four inspectors have 

 been employed, who are now at work among 

 the mills. The committee was instructed to 

 station association inspectors in northern mar- 

 kets as soon as possible. A stipulation was 



the company has straightened all dangerous 

 curves, renumbered all its bridges and culverts, 

 and filed their specifications in the chief engi- 

 neer's office — an indication that it is falling in 

 line with the higher standards of larger roads. 



Death of Hon. Nathan B. Bradley. 

 Hon. Nathan B. Bradley, a pioneer Michigan 

 lumberman and long-time resident of Bay 

 City, died at his home Nov. S, after a week's 

 illness. 



Mr. Bradley was born in Lee, Mass., May 28, 

 1831, and was of English descent. In 1849 he 

 went to Wisconsin, where he gained his first Ium- 

 ber experience. The following year he built a 

 sawmill in Ohio, where he operated until 1852, 

 and then entered the sawmill business in Mich- 

 igan, cutting and sawing timber previously 

 purchased. He later settled at St. Charles, 

 Saginaw county, and entered into a partner- 

 ship, the firm name being Frost & Bradley. 

 In 1858 Mr. Bradley moved to Bay City, where 

 he bought a sawmill and manufactured lum- 

 ber. Three years later the firm, known as N. 

 B. Bradley & Co., and later as N. B. Bradley 

 & Sons, added a salt manufacturing plant to 

 their operations. The concern manufactured 

 large quantities of pine and hemlock at Bay 

 City and Deer Park, Mich. Ross. Bradley & 

 Co. was organized to operate a yard and plan- 

 ing mill at West Bay City, and was succeeded 

 by Bradley, Miller & Co., which is one of the 

 largest and best known companies in the Sagi- 

 naw valley. The Bradley-Ramsay Lumber 



