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work is tree from' tecbnicality and confusing de- 

 tail ; it is helpf ull.v arranged, clearly written, 

 and handsomely illustrated. It should meet a 

 definite and largo demand. It is a large crown 

 Svo, selling at .$2.50 net ; postage eighteen cents 

 extra, and is published by Houghton, Mifflin 

 Company, 4 Park street, Boston, Mass. 



New Knoxville Lumber House 



The Maphet & Shea Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new manufacturing and wholesaling 

 hardwood house just established at Knoxville, 

 Tenn.. with offices located at 703-705 Henson 

 building, and yards at Middlebrook Pike and 

 Lounsdale car line. This house is made up of 

 Ed. Mapbct. formerly allied with the Logan- 

 Maphet Lumber Company. Knoxville, and John 

 L. and James T. Shea, the well-known logging 

 contractors, who are now stocking, to the e$- 

 tent of 100,000 feet a day, the big mills of the 

 New River Lumber Company at Norma, Tenn. 

 Shea Brothers formerly handled the logging op- 

 erations of the Little River Lumber Company 

 at Townsend. Tenn., and before that they were 

 engaged in similar enterprises in Pennsylvania. 



Ed. Maphet is too well known to the hard- 

 wood manufacturing and jobbing trade to re- 

 quire an introduction, as he has been engaged in 

 this line of work in the Knoxville district for 

 many years. He has achieved an en%-iable repu- 

 tation as a competent hardwood man. The sec- 

 retary of the new company is E. J. Clark. 



The Shea brothers will not take any active 

 personal interest in the new company, but will 

 continue in their logging enterprises. They 

 have large timber holdings in this section, and 

 the Maphet & Shea Lumber Company has just 

 taken over 2,000 acres of this timber and a half 

 interest in a Clark band mill, fully equipped 

 and in running order, which It will operate in 

 connection with its jobbing business. 



The assorting yard at Knoxville will enable 

 the company to re-assort lumber, and mill in 

 transit, as a motor-driven planing mill equip- 

 ment will be put in at the yard. 



Everyone acquainted with the members of the 

 Maphet & Shea Lumber Company will wish them 

 unbounded success in their new venture, as the 

 principals certainly should be competent to 

 carry it on to a successful conclusion. 



A Skidding Record 



The star crew of the Industrial Lumber Com- 

 pany of MarioDville. La., recently completed a 

 four-day record with a four-line Clyde steam 

 skidder. The total number of logs skidded in 

 the four days was 4,325. containing 865,000 

 feet 'as follows : 



March 30 1,000 logs, 200,000 ft. 



April 1 1,000 logs, 200,000 ft. 



April 2 1,003 logs, 200.600 ft. 



April 3 1,322 logs, 264,400 ft. 



This is a daily average of 1,081 logs or 216.- 

 250 feet. This record was made with the most 

 modern equipment of the Clyde Iron Works of 

 Duluth, Minn. 



No Forests in China 



Consul-General Knabonsbui' of Tientsin says 

 that forestry is a subject in which the Chinese 

 evince no interest, as there are no forests In 

 this country. The Great Plain, on which Tient- 

 sin is located, never had forests, being entirely 

 of delta formation, and the mountainous regions 

 to the north and west were denuded of their for- 

 ests centuries ago. The surface soil of these 

 mountains has been washed away, and to refor^ 

 est them would be a matter of great difficulty. 

 The only nurseryman in this consular district is 

 F. Bade of the Tientsin Nursery Gardens, who 

 is much interested in tree culture. He raises 

 various shade and ornamental trees from seed, 

 but the soil of the Great Plain is alkaline and 

 comparatfrely few varieties of trees will flourish 

 in it. He has had the most success with the 

 acacia, which is also being used by the Germans 

 in the Tsingtau district. 



A British corporation engaged in mining and 



shipping has a concession for coal mining in 

 the Kaiping district, about eighty miles north- 

 west of Tientsin. The surface of the region is 

 broken by hills fifty to two hundred feet high, 

 which are absolutely bare of trees, and the com- 

 pany has begun the work of afforestation. It 

 already has 1.000,000 young trees growing, 

 chiefly acacia, and is preparing to establish a 

 nursery for them on an extensive scale. 



There are no government forestry officials, 

 schools of forestry or horticulture, magazines 

 devoted to these subjects, or associations of for- 

 esters, nurserymen, seedsmen, etc.. in China. At 

 Tsingtau. German China, afforestation has been 

 successfully carried on by the German govern- 

 ment. 



B. Heinemann Company Starts Sawing 



On July 12. liiu. the sawmill of the P.. Ileino- 

 mann Lumber Company at Antigo. Wis., was 

 completely burned. In the latter part of Febru- 

 ary, 1912. this company purchased the entire 

 sawmill and planing mill plant of the Alexander 

 Stewart Lumber Company in M'ausau. Wis., 

 and on April 18 sawed its first lumber in that 

 plant. 



This company has been prominent in Wiscon- 

 sin lumber circles for fifteen years, starting 

 originally in Antigo on about the same basis as 

 it was operating when burned out. The Heine- 

 mann interests own timber in Marathon. Lang- 

 lade and Lincoln counties, Wisconsin, which runs 

 about equally in hemlock and hardwood with ten 

 per cent in pine. 



The Antigo operations are closed up for the 

 time being, and it is the hope of the company 

 to be completely established at Wausau in thirty 

 days. In addition to the complete planing mill 

 equipment and the sawmill, containing a band 

 and a circular saw, gang edger and band resaw. 

 the excelsior plant now located at Antigo will 

 be moved to Wausau. 



B. Heinrmann is president of the company ; W. 

 B. Heinemann. vice-president and G. B. Heine- 

 mann. secretary and treasurer. All are widely 

 and favorably known in northern lumber circles. 



Dr. Scheuck's New Work 



In last issue of Hardwood Record there was 

 briefly acknowledged receipt of the work of 

 Dr. C. A. Schenck. director of the Biltmore 

 Forest School, entitled "Loggin.g and Lumbering 

 or Forest Utilization." This book is a large 

 quarto text book for forest schools, and em- 

 braces within its little less than two hundred 

 pages, an abstract of about all that is worth 

 knowing about the lumber business from the 

 forest to the finished product. It is an abstract 

 of every detail of logging and lumbering from 

 the forest to the consumer. Outside of its 

 use as a text book, it should possess no in- 

 considerable value to every student of lumber 

 affairs. It is to he hoped that Dr. Schenck 

 printed a sufficiently large edition that he may 

 market a considerable number to lumbermen. 



As an idea of the comprehensive character of 

 the publication, briefly may be recounted a 

 synopsis of parts and chapters : Under loggin.g 

 operations the work covers labor employed in the 

 forest, cutting operations, transportation of logs. 

 Part 2 : The manufacture of lumber : foundation 

 of manufacture ; manufacturing industries. 



In the second section is involved chapters 

 covering manvial labor : animal labor ; woodmen's 

 tools and implements ; felling the trees ; cross- 

 cutting; land transportation without vehicles; 

 water transportation ; transportation on land by 

 vehicles ; arrangement for loading logs : aero- 

 logging ; discussion of various systems of trans- 

 portation : the American forester as a lumber- 

 man ; motive power ; transmission of power : . 

 technical use made of trees ; technical qualities 

 of trees ; the sawmill : woodworking plants : 

 veneering plants ; bos factories : basket works, 

 and so down the line to miscellaneous manipu- 

 lation of woods into various manufactured pro- 

 ducts. 



The work is a most worthy addition to Dr. 

 Sehenck's previous contributions to the litera- 

 ture of lumber affairs. 



A Successful Organization 



Success has crowned the efforts of the new 

 Bissell-Wheeler Lumber Company of Marshfield. 

 Wis., since its active advent into the hardwood 

 business on March 1. This concern was incor- 

 porated in the latter part of February to do a 

 general wholesaling business in hardwoods. 

 Equipped with .?2o.000 paid in capital and hav- 

 ing unusual mill connections, progress has been 

 rapid and uninterrupted. 



In a measure the company's success can be 

 attributed to its personnel, all the incorporators 

 being prominent In the lumber business. W. H. 

 Bissell of Wausau, associated in the Yawkey- 

 Bissell Lumber Company, is president : S. K. 

 Bissell of the same interests is vice-president 

 and treasurer and W. D. Wheeler, formerly with 

 the VoUmar & Below Company, is secretary. 

 Ever.vthing presages a brilliant future for this 

 new enterprise. 



The Appalachian Work 



Wm. L. Hall of the Forest Service, in imme- 

 diate charge of the selection of areas recom- 

 mended for purchase for the Appalachian and 

 White Mountains National Parks, has the fol- 

 lowing to say on the subject in American For- 

 estry for March : 



The Forest Service is now practically getting 

 into the routine part of the Appalachian work, 

 and I think this year's appropriation will run 

 over one million dollars. If it should turn out 

 that purchases are to be made in the White 

 mountain region, the Forest Service itself would 

 be in a position to report upon the land. It 

 has examined it to the extent of a hundred 

 thousand acres or so. at a valuation of perhaps 

 from six to eight hundred thousand dollars. 



Should It turn out that we cannot purchase 

 lands in the White mountains this year, we ex- 

 pect that we will complete examinations in the 

 Southern Appal.achians. enough to consume the 

 appropriation of .f2.000.000 which is available 

 for this present year; so that, in any case, we 

 believe it will be possible to use- the money which 

 Congress has put into our hands. 



When this proposition was under consideration 

 for the ten or twelve years it was before Con- 

 gress, it was pointed out by those who thought 

 it was unwise that, if this law were passed, we 

 would encounter all kinds of difficulties. It was 

 said, in fact, that it was a scheme of the land 

 grabber ; it was a scheme of the speculator, and 

 that when we actually got into the work of 

 acquiring land, we would find that the specu- 

 lator had gone in advance of us and had gath- 

 ered in the lands, and would turn them over to 

 the government only at a great profit. We have 

 not found that to be true. In a few cases 

 locally, we have found that men have gathered 

 in considerable bodies of land, expecting, pos- 

 sibly, that the government would come in as a 

 purchaser eventually. That has not been hard . 

 to deal with. Generally, we have found the land 

 owners have not discounted the action of the 

 government at all, and are ready to deal with 

 us on a frank and businesslike basis. 



The passage of this law, however, did in a 

 measiu-e set acting a certain class of men, men 

 who were very anxious to become closely ac- 

 quainted with the .$11,000,000. and they have 

 attempted to operate in various ways. Some of 

 them have attempted to impersonate government 

 officials in filing their options on land : others 

 have attempted to get options in their own 

 names with the idea, of course, of making a 

 good profit ; others are endeavoring to show that, 

 as agents, they can save the government a great 

 deal of money, and also obtain enormous prices 

 for the owners of the land. But, with a stiff 

 backbone against all that sort of thing, we are 

 able to make progress, and we shall undoubtedly 

 be able to make progress, and carry out effec- 

 tively the law as it was the intention that it 



