HARDWOOD RECORD 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Co. 



Conway Building 1 1 1 W. Washington Street 



CHICAGO 



RED GUM 



AMERICAS FINEST CABINET WOOD 



Consider its good qualities. 



It has strength. 



Can be brought to a very smooth sur- 

 face and consequently will take 

 high polish in finishing. 



Will not split easily. 



Runs strong to wide widths and long 

 lengths. 



Is not easily marred or dented. 



It can be supplied flat and straight — 

 free of warp and twist. 



Has beauty, color, life and character. 



Considering its numerous good quali- 

 ties, it is the lowest priced good 

 hardwood on the market today. 



We are the largest producers of Gum 



in the world. 

 Have a large and well assorted stock 



on hand at all times. 

 Can manufacture special thicknesses 



on short notice. 



We guarantee 



QUICK SHIPMENTS 

 GOOD GRADES 

 DRY STOCK 

 GOOD WIDTHS 

 GOOD LENGTHS 

 SATISFACTION 



Band mills at 



HELENA, ARK. BLYTHEVILLE. ARK. 



GREENVILLE, MISS. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Co. 



Conway Building 111 W. Washington St. 



CHICAGO 



fmili la an over rl|>ruriui, oo doubt due to lla (real agv, which mulU Id 

 B oTtaln ■iiiouDt of lirowo iitrraki aod a mnall quanllljr of doxry or toxj 

 wood. It HcaiODii qiilrkly and fumm rnally, and nlini |iro|>rrly araaoncd 

 ■tnnda well. Work cnn lie aafeljr eiiTuted from nrtinrlally dralcrated 

 limber, and If due care be taken no atirlnknce or other trouble will be eipe- 

 rli'nced. It la aiM-clalljr aullable for Ooorlne. The nne, allky, cloae (rain 

 makes It particularly aulted for the wa-nr r^iulred from doorInK, and the 

 mild, alralcbt Krain adapta It for preparation and Inylnit. It alno la very 

 aultabic for veneerlni:, and eapeclnlly «o for knifcrut work and three-ply. 



Increased Value of Farm Buildings 



bare 



The value of tlii> fiirm bulldlnRH In thr I'nilfd Slatea la 

 Increased »i,708.Kli:.():f.' for lUOO I<> lOlO. nie Increase was due to new 

 bulldlnm of auOlclent value lo makr Kood the depreciation In Ihe old, and 

 to add 77.8 per cent to the flcurea for I'.tOO. Thla means that fl7a.HHl.203 

 were added each year to the wealth which farmers have In Ihelr bulldlnKS. 

 Lumbermen who view with some alarm Ihe Inroads which cement and 

 olber building materlols are makluR on Ihe farms, Kliould not conclude too 

 hastily that lumber Is IosIdk ground. The worst that can be aald for It 

 iR that It Is not Rcttlni; all the buslncBS In that line. Suballtuli's are tak- 

 ing some of It, but It Is reasonably certain that the sales of lumber are 

 acually increasing on farms, Dotwithslanding the showing made there by 

 substitutes. 



New York Hickory Trees in Danger 



It Is said thot a very serious dancer menaces the hickory trees In 

 various parts of the stale of New York, ond the trouble may extend to 

 other places. In some regions a large percentage (sometimes as bigb 

 as eighty per cent) of the hickories have been killed by the hickory bark 

 beetle, a small Insect which lives between Ihe Inner bark and sapwood of 

 Ibc trees and by means of Us tunnels cuts off the How of sap lo Ihe 

 upper part of the tree. The hickory tree In the Infested region Is doomed 

 both as a shade tree and from a commercial standpoint unless active work 

 Is done to check this Insect. This can be done only by cutting the trees 

 killed the previous season and so disposing of the bark and branches aa 

 to destroy the young living Insects wllbln. The best way is to burn the 

 entire tree or submerge It In woter for two weeks. 



To Bridge the Mississippi at New Orleans 



A plan twenty years old seems In a fair way now to be carried out, oy 

 which the Mississippi river, four miles above New Orleans, will be bridged. 

 It has been supposed that no bridge could be built south of Baton Rouge 

 on account of the deep sand and treacherous ground forming the river's bed 

 and banks. It has been ascertained, boncver, that foundations can be 

 had tour miles above New Orleans by sinking the piers 170 feet beneath 

 the level of low water. That will be seventy feet bilovv the bottom of the 

 river bed, as the stream Is 100 feet deep In low water and about 120 feet 

 at the flood stage. The floor of the proposed bridge will be 105 feet above 

 low water level. The height of the piers from foundation lo floor of the 

 bridge will be 275 feet. The foundations will not rest on solid rock, but 

 on coarse sand. 



No one seems to know how deep It would be necessary to dig to find 

 bed rock. At Jennings. La., the sand goes down at least 2.000 feet, aod 

 a cypress log was recently penetrated at that depth by an oil well auger. 

 Apparently the river on the Gulf of Mexico has fllled the land to that 

 depth. Engineers express no doubt that Ihe sand at 170 feel will afford 

 ample foundation for the bridge, although it will be an enormously heavy 

 structure. The main span will be 1.070 feet long of cantilever type. 



The total length of the steel structure will he over two miles, aod Its 

 maximum height from the foundation to the top of the lowers will be 450 

 feet. The width is to be forty feet. The bridge wllh its approaches will 

 be six and a half miles long. 



The total cost of the bridge will be $6,000,000. The slow and costly 

 process of ferrying all trains across the Mississippi on the lower several 

 hundred miles of the river is responsible for the revival of the movement 

 lo construct the bridge. It Is believed that railroads will save enough 

 In a short time to pay for the bridge, and the commercial Importance of 

 Now Orleans and the surrounding region will be greatly increased. 



Kauri Pine Gum 

 Kauri pine gum is valuable in the manufacture of varnish. It comes 

 from New Zealand. Some of It is procured from the living trees by tapping 

 In a manner somewhat similar to that practiced on the southern yellow 

 pines of this country, and some is dug from the ground and Is known ai 

 fossil gum. The latter Is more Important In commerce, but the former is ol 

 better quality. The fossil gum is found beneath the surface of the ground 

 in regions where no trees are now found. It is the most durable remains 

 of former forests which disappeared ages ago. The area which Is known 

 to contain the fossil gum covers 914,000 acres. Since 185.3 the exports 

 of the gum from New Zealand have totaled $.85,000,000 In value. In 1912 

 the exports were 8,014 tons, worth $2,500,000. The lowest grade Is 

 worth $25 a Ion, the best $1,800. There is believed to be a supply for 

 many years. The New Zealand government, which owns the best gum 

 land, docs not encourage over-production. The purpose is to keep up a 

 moderate supply which will maintain good prices. Nearly the whole of 

 the gum digging is done by 6,000 Austrlans who constitute the only Im- 

 liortant foreign labor element in New Zealand. 



