HARDWOOD RECORD 



after several bids by Mr. Wiley, tbe parcel was finally sold to Mr. Ward 

 for $95,000. Parcel F was sold under the same circumstances, various 

 bidders being Henry Stevens, Mr. Wiley, I'\ B. Ward, R. Hanson, and 

 others. The first bid was $50^000, and the property was finally sold to 

 F. B. Ward for $05,000. Parcel E went to W. P. Porter of the East 

 Jordan Lumber Company for $88,000. W. C. Ward secured parcel D for 

 $95,000, this bid having been raised from $60,000. Mr. Porter secured 

 parcel C for $36,000, the original bid having been $15,000. 



Parcel B was bia in at $100,000 by W. C. Ward immediately upon its 

 being offered. No other bids being made on this parcel, Mr. Ward 

 secured its purchase. Parcel A was sold to Mr. Wiley for $39,000. 



According to several lumbermen who were present, there were really no 

 bargains in the sale. 



A New Swage 



The Peter Gerlach Company of Cleveland, <>., is the ilcsigiifr and 

 manufacturer of a new tool designed tor use in small and medium as 

 well as large -saw, planing, stave, box-board, and other woodworking 

 mills and factories. It is used for the swaging of all saws used for 

 cutting with the grain. Its utility is for handsaws 3" to 20" wide, 

 circular saws 12" to 76" In diameter, gang saws of all sizes, cylinder 



Veneer Company of Knoxville. He will carry for Lewis Thompson & Co. 

 a complete line of mahogany lumber and veneers ; also Circassian walnut. 

 Of the Nickey Bros. & Bass stock he will carry sliced and sawed quartered 

 oak, quartered gum and all plain-sawed woods. He will carry in the 

 stock of the Knoxville Veneer Company rotary poplar, oak and walnut. 



sliced quartered oak, and 

 about September 1. 



The 



warehouse will be opened 



Anniversary of Famous Log Jam 



The Ihirly-ttrst anniversary of the famous Grand Klver log jam, from 

 which dates the lumbering history of Grand Kapids, Grand Haven and 

 surrounding territory, has passed and there remain many oldtimers who 

 witnessed the mighty 3am. 



The western section of Michigan was at its height as a great lumber- 

 ing center. For days and days the logs came rushing down Grand river 

 only to pile up a little above Grand Rapids. Most of them were going 

 to mills at Grand Haven. The river tor miles above Grand Rapids became 

 a mass of mighty timbers, some standing on end, others piled criss-cross, 

 and the whole giving the appearance of a mammoth box of toothpicks 

 Jumbled together. 



\VI,, ;, 111, 1.1. i!, iiii.illv came more than 100,000,000 fi."i - i 1 - ini.!. 

 many ■! i i.' m ni •"■'V end, down the river, carrying aw:i i m i s 



as til. \ , 1,1 111 lo- jam in reality marked the turnm- ii- 



lumlidii,^ iii.lii Tij ill the Grand river valley for the sp,,.! .\i'!i Alu'b 

 outlyinn 1.. rests w.-r.' denuded shortly afterward made ImpossH.!.- auother 

 such Jam. 



Reviving Inland Navigation 



Illustrating this story Is a picture of a Imrge operating on the Missis- 

 sippi river near the mills of D. K. Jeffris & Co., Jeffris, La. The barge is 

 loaded with about 350,000 feet of oak and gum lumber destined for St. 

 Louis and Alton. 111., and it also contains about twenty carloads of sugar, 

 rice and coffee for points on the Mississippi river as far up as St. Paul. 



The barge was designed by John H. Bernhard, a young Hollander who 

 comes from a slii]i luiildiiii; family in Holland. It was originally de- 

 signed for us, Orleans and coal mines in the vicinity of 

 Tuscaloosa, .\i i r river. 



It is prop" il.ir line of these barges on between New 



Orleans and Si. 1. ., .i l as they become available. They are eco- 

 nomical of operation, requiring but two or three dollars per day of refuse 

 coke for fuel, and will carry 1,000 tons at the rate of about four miles 



English standard gauge and which are intended to cut with the grain of 

 wood of any space of teeth from 1%" to 6" from point to point. 



.\ccording to the makers of this saw it is a pretty well demonstrated 

 fact that an angle of forty-five degrees at the cutting points gives to 

 saw teeth the best opportunity t'..r ;iccurate work in all kinds of Amer- 

 ican woods, wliiili.r fr,,/,,n. -i, , n ,,r dry. With the simplex swage this 

 exact set can !„ .i, , ,,in|,ii-li .1 a- will as other angles varying from 

 thirty-five to iiii> ,|,-i,,- ,i ; ..inir.'d. 



The universal i,anir, wiih wliich this simplex swage is equipped 

 should particularly coraiu.u.l it to the average miilman as well as to 

 the owner of the large mill who may still be using the jump or set swage 

 bar or swing set. Simplex swages are mechanically perfect, strong and 

 true and every part is made of the finest quality of steel. All wearing 

 parts such as roller dies, anvils, screws, nuts, washers and their seats 

 are hardened and tempered. Every part is standardized and is made 

 interchangeable. 



The simple adjusting features make it possible tor any filer of 

 ordinary intelligence to easily regulate the machine. On the other 

 hand, the swage is safe-guarded against the annoyance of smashing of 

 roller dies and anvils by limitins the throw of swaging lever. 



The swage has been thorousliU i,-i,-,l hn- a year upon all saws for 

 which it is being recommended, h ha. 1,, , n passed by some of the most 

 experienced filers and has met , v. i x r, ,]nii, ni,ut. Further Information 

 can be secured by addressing tli,> I'.t,r i;,rhirli Company. Cleveland, O. 



A Record in Log Loading 



The Clyde Iron Works of Duluth announces what is probably a new 

 record for log loading, one of its stiff-boomed McGiffert loaders being 

 used. The record was accomplished by Loaderman A. B. Cochran, working 

 for the Gulf Lumber Company at FuUerton. La. The feat accomplished 

 was loading 460,000 feet contained In 910 logs, or seventy ears in a nine- 

 hour day. This is an equivalent of five logs every three minutes through 

 the day, or 852 feet a minute. 



Harry Raymond Starts for Himself 



Harry Raj-mond, recently of the Evansville Veneer Company of Evans- 

 ville, Ind., announces that he has severed his connection with that concern 

 and is building a warehouse at High Point, N. C, on the switch of the 

 High Point Manufacturing Company. Mr. Raymond announces he will 

 install a jointing and taping department and will dimension-joint and 

 tape Circassian, mahogany and both sliced and sawed quartered oak. 



Mr. Raymond will represent In the southern territory Lewis Thompson 

 & Co. of Philadelphia: Nickey Bros. & Bass of Memphis, and the Knoxville 



per hour up the Mississippi river. A crew of seven men is sufficient to 

 operate the barge twenty-four hours a day. The engines are what are 

 called gas producer engines and are built by the Fairbanks-Morse Com- 

 pany. 



Arkansas Drainage Project Will Help Lumbermen 



A big dr.iinage project has recently been launched in Arkansas for the 

 purpose of draining some 250,000 acres of very valuable land in the 

 northeastern part of the state. The district includes Mississippi. Poin- 

 sett, Craighead and Grenn counties, in which lie for the most part the 

 famous Arkansas Sunk Lands of the Saint Francis river valley. These 

 lands are, generally speaking, covered by very valuable timber, though in 

 some parts the timber has been removed, the land cleared and converted 

 into very fertile farms. By drainage practically all of the land in that 

 section can be used with great advantage for agricultural purposes, and 

 health conditions improved. 



The cost of the project is placed at .$1,500,000, but this Is small when 

 it Is considered that the improvements proposed should benefit the lands 

 to an extent equalling at least five times the cost of making the improve- 

 ments. 



A considerable part of these lands are now owned by lumber manufac- 

 turers, the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company being one of the chief 

 owners. The head of the district will be what is locally known as Big 

 Lake, into which the drainage water from the Keystone drainage district 

 of southern Missouri empties, and has made imperative the draining of 

 the Arkansas lands. 



