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Company, of which Mr. N. B. Bradley was 

 principal stockholder, owned 60,000 acres of 

 timber and a large mill at Lake Charles, La., 

 which they disposed of last spring. N. B. 

 Bradley & Sons are at present interested in 

 extensive timber holdings in Tennessee, and 

 are manufacturing hardwoods at Elizabethton. 



Mr. Bradley had other business interests at 

 the time of his death, being a stockholder in 

 the Bradley-Miller Transportation Company, a 

 stockholder in the First National bank of Bay 

 City, and a director of the Michigan Sugar 

 Company. 



By his death the lumber contingent of the 

 Northwest suffers the loss of one of its most 

 influential and energetic members, and Bay 

 City one of its most prominent and philan- 

 thropic citizens. 



The editor of the Hardwood Record was an 

 employee of Mr. Bradley for several years, 

 and wishes to add his tribute to the deceased's 

 many sterling qualities. 



Grubbing Walnut. 

 J. V. Hamilton of Fort Scott, Kas., furnishes 

 the Hardwood Record information concerning 

 walnut stumps which will be of interest to the 

 trade. He states that while to many people 

 stumps would seem almost useless as an article 



The short wrinkled cross figure, commonly 

 known as "fiddle-back," is not prized so highly 

 as are the different forms of "blister," while 

 the most sought and valuable of all stump fig- 

 ures is the "roll curl." 



Good walnut trees and stumps are about ex- 

 hausted east of the Mississippi, and the supply 

 farther west is diminishing rapidly. The deep- 

 grubbing method is desirable in clearing valuable 

 timber, both because its dispenses with the labor 

 of extracting the stump afterward and be- 

 cause it increases the amount of figured wood 

 obtained; it also prevents checking the butt 

 log, and there is no fracturing of the stump ; 

 neither is the body of the tree split back from 

 the top by the weight of heavy limbs rebounding 

 when striking the ground. The accompanying 

 pictures illustrate these points very clearly. 



All Inexpensive Veneer Cutter. 



A rotary veneer cutter has been designed by 

 the Coe Manufacturing Company of Painesville, 

 O., to meet the wants of a class of trade de- 

 manding a stiff and strong but cheap machine 

 suitable for basket, box and package manufac- 

 ture. 



These machines will swing a log up to 4i 

 inches in diameter, and are built in five lengths 

 of knife, from 26 to 64 inches. They will cut 



of •.ii" main knife, two sets of chucks, a clutch 

 drive pulley, complete set of feed gears to 

 cut from three-eighths inch down, one set of 

 scoring knives, knife tram, spindle tram, 

 wrenches, etc. The horsepower required to 

 drive these machines varies with the timber, 

 thickness of stock, and temperature of the 

 logs, but the maximum required for cold cut- 

 ting does not exceed fifteen horsepower. 



A few of the representative users of these 

 machines are: The Success Fruit-Package Co., 

 Success, Ark.; S. H. Parsons, Seaford, Del.; 

 Illinois Match Co., Joliet, 111.; F. Baumeister 

 & Son, Rockwood, Mich.; Geo. Blye, Central 

 Square, N. Y.; Geo. A. Courbat, Mallory, 

 N. Y.; Canisteo Woodenware Co., Canisteo, 

 X. Y.; N. A. Bagger, Rockport. O. ; Eben New- 

 ton, Wayland, '>.; Henry Prassee & Co., South 

 Euclid. 1 1 ; West Park Basket Co., West Park, 

 O. ; Fred Kenker, Cheviot, O.; Alexander 

 Bros., Jacksonville. Tex.; Geo. N. Dilley & 

 Son, Frankston, Tex.; J. G. Slover & Son, 

 Croft, Tex.; N. A. Slover. Dialsville, Tex.; 

 Sterling Veneer & Basket Co.. Williamstown, 

 W. Va.; Bright Box Co.. Bright, Wis.; Fritz 

 & Fry, Unity, Wis.; Wisconsin Chair Co., 

 Port Washington, Wis.; T. Clayton Roberts, 

 Daphne, Ceylon. 



Any one interested in this device will do well 



DEEP GRUBBING. SHOWING THE WAY THE EARTH IS RE- 

 MOVED IN UNCOVERING THE SPUR OR SIDE ROOTS. 



SHALLOW GRUBBING, SHOWING THE WAY THE TAP ROOT 

 IS BROKEN BY THE WEIGHT OF THE TREE. 



of commerce, they have a considerable value to 

 dealers in fancy figured wood for use as veneers. 

 Years ago the immense forests of the country 

 were interspersed with magnificent black walnut 

 timber which was put to little use, chiefly 

 owing to the scarcity of transportation facilities. 

 When the lumbermen finally entered the forests 

 to cut timbers, pests or rails, the largest, most 

 beautiful specimens of trees were selected and 

 hacked off from two to three feet above the 

 ground, leaving the stump entirely wasted and 

 the ground encumbered in such a manner as to 

 prevent the use of the plough. 



As time passes and the call for cabinet woods 

 continues strong, lumbermen take notice of the 

 great stumps which are all that remain of the 

 abundant black walnut growth of the West, and 

 dig them up in various ways, hewing from 

 them blocks or billets, as many and as large 

 as the stump will furnish. From these billets 

 are made veneers for the face side of panels. 

 They are steamed and then cut into thin sheets 

 from a sixteenth to a hundredth of an inch 

 thick, by a saw or slicing machine. Sometimes 

 the whole stump is cut by the rotary process 

 into circular disks to be used in the same way. 



Most large walnut trees show more or less 

 figure at the base, but when this figured portion 

 is less than twenty-eight inches in length its 

 value is greatly reduced. The form of the figure 

 has also much to do with the value of a piece. 



perfect stock up to and including one-quarter 

 inch in thickness, in any length of knife, and 

 under some conditions will cut stock three- 

 eighths inch in thickness, although not origin- 

 ally designed for such heavy work. A great 

 many of them are in use cutting fine veneers 

 for the regular trade. The frame or bed is 

 cast in one piece and is very heavy and 

 strong. The spindles are 3% inches in diame- 

 ter, insuring ample strength. They are turned 

 from tough hammered steel and are long 

 enough to permit the handling of logs much 

 shorter than the extreme length of the knives. 

 These tools have all the labor-saving devices 

 to be found on the most expensive apparatus. 

 The dogging and undogging is done by the 

 power of the machine itself, also the rapid 

 handling of the knife bar in and out. The 

 pressure bar has adjustable plates and is ar- 

 ranged to carry scoring or scarfing knives; 

 the feed gears are all cut from the solid 

 and a Coe clutch is furnished. The material 

 used is the best; the castings are of the 

 finest quality of gray iron, but where the 

 greatest strains occur steel is used. All bear- 

 ings are babbitted and hand-scraped to perfect 

 fit. Each machine is shipped in one piece, 

 complete, and ready for the belt, and can be 

 furnished with impression rolls for dividing 

 the veneer to width as it comes from the ma- 

 chine, although the regular equipment consists 



to write the Coe Manufacturing Company, 

 Painesville, O., requesting a copy of their cat- 

 alog No. 5. Cuts of this machine are shown in 

 the advertisement of this concern in the dis- 

 play columns of the Hardwood Record. 



Purchase West Virginia Tract. 



The Crescent Lumber Company of Marietta, 

 Ohio, has recently closed a deal with the Elk 

 River Coal & Lumber Company, of Clay, W. 

 Va., for a tract of 8,000 acres of timber land in 

 Clay County, W. Va., on Buffalo creek, com- 

 prising the watersheds of Wallow Hole creek. 

 Hickory Knob and Dog Run. This is said to 

 be a splendid tract of virgin forest and con- 

 tains some of the finest oak and poplar stand- 

 ing today, in addition to abundant ash, hem- 

 lock and hickory. 



Operations will begin the first of the new 

 year. An up-to-date band mill will be erected 

 and a standard gauge railroad built into the 

 timber, equipped with modern logging loco- 

 motive, steam loaders and skidders. The Buf- 

 falo Creek & Gauley Railroad will be extended 

 to the property at once. The new plant will 

 be in full swing by June, 1907, and when it 

 is completed will be one of the largest hard- 

 wood operations in the state. 



The Crescent Lumber Company is an ex- 

 tensive manufacturer and wholesaler of hard- 

 woods, and this purchase, with the band mill 



