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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The compaay has installed new and improved ma- 

 chinei'y in its big manufacturing plant at Coal Grove, 

 Ohio, and is producing an output of which quarter-sawed 

 stock is an important specialty, that will be a revelation 

 to both the domestic and foreign, buyer whose require- 

 ments are for the highest type of oak that is produced, 

 as it practically is a duplicate of the highly-prized Aus- 

 trian oak, which in Europe commands prices above most 

 cabinet woods. 



A part of the company's new equipment is a specially 

 built horizontal band resaw, built by the Filer & Stowell 

 Company of Milwaukee, AVis., inade especially for the 

 reduction of quartered flitches into lumber. While the 

 larger logs are generally cut to quarter-sawed stock on 

 one of the two big bands, the quartered sections from 

 the smaller logs are handled by this new quarter-sawing 

 horizontal rig. 



It may be said in advancf that the perfection of manu- 

 facture for which the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 

 is famous is in no wise impaired by this innovation, as it 

 is not producing saw culls, but is making lumber of abso- 

 lute uniformity of thickness, and with a development of 

 an alluring figure, as shown in the illustrations, that will 

 be a delight to every discriminating buj'er. 



In lengths, the company is turning out a large per- 

 centage of sixteen-feet stock, with a mininmm of shorter 

 lengths, and is also making a small percentage of eighteen 

 and twenty feet stock. As surprising as it may seem, 

 this quarter-sawed product out of medium to large sized 

 logs is averaging in width better than eight and a half 

 inches. 



The company contemplates still further improvements 

 in its manufacturing facilities. It already has in stock 

 nearly three million feet of this Virginia oak lumber, of 

 which the larger percentage is quarter-sawed. 



Of course, it must not for a moment be thought that 

 the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company is out of the yellow 

 poplar business, because it will have from tAventy to 

 twenty-five per cent of its total output in high-class vir- 

 gin yellow poplar for some years, but it is "in" the 

 white oak trade with a large output for many years in 

 the future. 



The company is supjilenuniting its big splash dam at 

 the head of the Breaks of the Sandy with smaller dams 

 on the minor streams, and its oak is of such lightness of 

 weight that it is enabled to raft the logs from floating 

 water in the upper river below Elkhorn City with abso- 

 lute safety to its Coal Grove plant on the Ohio river, 

 below the mouth of the Big Sandy river. As a matter of 

 fact, in its log rafting of the current year its losses were 

 only about five per cent, which is a better showing than 

 it has ever before found possible in floating poplar 

 exclusively and is evidence of the complete uumner in 

 which it has mastered the problems of lumbering. 



The company will be pleased to send specimens of its 

 oak lumber to interested buyers on request, which speci- 

 mens will show even more clearly than even the repro- 

 ductions in this issue of H.\rdwood Record, the splendid 

 texture, light weight, surpassing figure, fine milling quali- 

 ties and general high character of the product which is 

 going to market in such large quantities from this 

 region. 



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