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groat era of prosperity in this country would be 

 some special damaging act on the part of the 

 coming administration. Mr. Mcllvaln makes sev- 

 eral trips through the South every year and he 

 says on every visit he notices a marked im- 

 provement in the conditions of the South. It is 

 growing, progressing and building up at a rapid 

 rate. 



Mr. Mcllvain states that the WoodcliEE Lum- 

 ber Company is now manufacturing as fine a 

 stock of quartered oak, poplar and chestnut, to- 

 gether with such plain oak as there is to be 

 found. E. S. West will shortly take charge of 

 the sales for this company. He will be located 

 at the mill near Monterey. Parties going to 

 visit the plant can get off at Woodcliff station, 

 three miles west of Monterey, where they will 

 be received and taken care of. 



Occupies New Offices 



The Heinemau r,uml>or Company moved into 

 its new office building at Merrill, Wis., last 

 week. This concern was formerly located in the 

 Citizens National Bank building at that place, 

 but now occupies a building of its own in con- 

 nection with its mill. The new building is very 

 convenient, commodious and is strictly modern iu 

 every particular. In addition to the general 

 office, each department is amply provided for. 



Steam heat, electric lights, etc., have been in- 

 stalled in the building, and the rooms will 

 he finished in maple and tastefully furnished. 

 Nothing has been omitted which would add to 

 the attractiveness of the company's new quarters. 



Valuable Catalogue 



An attractive and valuabe catalogue has been 

 issued by the Clyde Iron Works of Duluth, Minn., 

 illustrating hoisting engines and suspension cable- 

 ways. This apparatus is of especial interest to 

 lumbermen who are carrying on operations in 

 rough country where it is necessary to transport 

 logs or other heavy material across ravines, 

 rivers or other obstructions where roadways 

 would be dilBeult and expensive. The cable- 

 ways are also used for storing logs where, for 

 lack of space, it is necessary to pile them high. 

 This machinery is constructed to be operated 

 by steam or electricity, and the towers on which 

 the cables run are of three patterns, stationary, 

 -semi-portable, and portable. The catalogue, 

 which is designated as "Catalogue E," describes 

 many other kinds of hoisting and transporting 

 machinery, suitable tor various purposes. If any 

 lumber manufacturer has failed to receive a 

 copy of this work, he should apply for one at 

 once to the Clyde Iron Works, Uuluth, Minn. 



Bureaus Consolidated 



The Bureau of Manufactures and the Bureau 

 of Statistics, of the Department of Commerce and 

 Labor, have been consolidated into one office, 

 known as the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce, with headquarters at Washington, 

 D. C. The consolidation of the two bureaus, 

 whose work was somewhat similar, is in con- 

 formity with the policy of concentration and 

 economy recently recommended to the various 

 governmental bureaus and departments. 



Failure of Baltimore Concern 



It was announced on Sept. 11 that Mann & 

 I'arker, a prominent hardwood house of Balti- 

 more, Md., went into bankruptcy individually 

 and as a firm. The firm consisted of Stephen S. 

 Mann and Frank E. Parker. The case was be- 

 fore the United States district court with W, E 

 Me.vers as referee in bankruptcy. There were three 

 petitioners in the proceedings, namely the Fields 

 Lumber Company, the American Lumber Com- 

 pany and the American Ice Company, with respec- 

 tive claims of $4,004.55, .$1,273.71 and .$13.65. 



No inkling of the condition of the firm had 

 been reported until a short time ago when 

 Bradstreet's report showed that it was in pre- 

 carious shape. This concern has been operating 

 in Baltimore for the past ten years, and both 



principals are widely known in the hardwood 

 business. 



The responsibility for the financial difficulty 

 of Mann & Parker rests with an investment they 

 made in a South Carolina sawmill operation. 

 The mill unfortunately was consumed by fire 

 some time ago, and in view of debts incurred at 

 the time the operation was taken over, it has 

 never been rebuilt. 



New Grand Rapids Plant Progressing 



Word comes from Grand liapids, .Mich., that 

 the work on the new building of the Rice 

 Veneer and Lumber Company, located at that 

 place, is progressing rapidly, and that it is ex- 

 pected the company will occupy the plant by 

 November. The building will be two stories high 

 with a basement, and will be of fireproof con- 

 struction throughout. In excavating it was 

 found necessary to go twenty feet below the sur- 

 face of made land in order to get a suitable 

 foundation. 



Horizontal Band Eesawing Attachment 



Wm. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw, Mich., have 

 recently added to their already extensive line 

 of special tools for use with thin saw blades, a 

 horizontal band resawing attachment for use 

 in connection with planers and matchers. 



NEW HORIZONTAL BAND RESAWING AT- 

 TACHMENT 



As is shown in the accompanying cut, this 

 attachment can be applied to any standard 

 planer or matcher. The installation of the re- 

 saw involves no serious difficulties as it is a 

 self-contained machine mounted on a substantial 

 base. It does not extend below the floor line. 



The band wheels are protected by a metal 

 guard and wire screen. A sawdust hood and 

 collar is also furnished so that connection can 

 most conveniently be made with the blow-pipe 

 system at very little expense. 



One of the most important mechanical im- 

 provements made available by this new resaw 

 is the use of rotary saw guides or crowding 

 wheels mounted on ball-bearings, and positively 

 supporting the short cutting section of the saw 

 Wade. This not only insures accurac.v, but 

 makes possible a very much faster feed than 

 could otherwise be maintained. 



The band wheels tilt for bevel siding and may 

 be raised or lowered in order to center or saw 

 stock off from center, as may be desired. A 

 novel straining device has been applied to this 

 machine, consisting of a nest of special coil 

 springs by means of which a constant cushion 

 is provided under the main bearing. This de- 

 vice also provides for accurately weighing and 



instantly reading the amount of strain in pounds 

 that is being carried by the saw at any time. 



This new application of the band resaw to 

 planing mill service has attracted very wide at- 

 tention, and owing to the fact that it can be 

 used with any planer or matcher is proving a 

 great convenience. It has been found also to 

 involve a considerable amount of economy as it 

 not only saves labor but makes it possible to 

 use planers or matchers already installed to bet- 

 ter advantage than heretofore. 



The Timber Wealth of Brazil 



A recent issue of the London Times contained 

 a long article on the vegetable wealth of Brazil. 

 It gives a partial list of the timber trees of the 

 country, showing numerous species, many of 

 which are valuable on account of beauty and 

 strength. The aggregate area of the three 

 states, Amazonas, Para, and Matto Grosso, is 

 1,427,745 square miles, and this vast tract is 

 practically one continuous forest. At the Chi- 

 cago Exposition the state of Amazonas alone 

 exhibited 441 kinds of woods, while an in- 

 complete index for the whole of Brazil, published 

 by Andre and .lose Rebougas, in 1.S7S, gives no 

 less than 22,000 specimens, including ornamental 

 plants, ferns, etc. Not a dozen Brazilian woods 

 are know'n in Europe, and not even the fringe of 

 tills immense wealth has been touched, for the 

 reason that rubber, in its many forms — seringa, 

 caucho, manicoba, taparu, etc. — has hitherto ab- 

 .sorbed ail the attention of capitalists. If not all 

 the available labor. Rosewood and a few others 

 are exported abroad, and a fair quantity of 

 native timber generally is consumed in Brazil, 

 mainly as fuel : but the backwardness of the in- 

 dustr.y is indicated by the fact that the country 

 imports a large amount of foreign pine annually, 

 while the pine forests of the state of Parana 

 could supply the w'orld with this much-needed 

 lumber. Besides the states already mentioned 

 in this connection, those of Espirito Santo, Rio 

 de Janeiro, and Minas Geracs, constituting what 

 may be called the central zone, are especially 

 rich in woods unrivaled for strength, or beauty, 

 or durability. 



To Increase State Keserve 



The state of Wisconsin is planning to pur- 

 chase 36,000 acres of cut-over land in addition 

 tc its forest reserve. The recent purchase of 

 land in Oneida and Vilas counties from the 

 Land Log & Lumber Company of Milwaukee 

 added some 20,000 acres. The remaining IG.OOO 

 acres will be taken on at the consummation of a 

 sale on the part of the H. W. Wright Lumber 

 Company of Merrill, which concern will transfer 

 tliat much cut-over land to the state. The 

 first 20,000 acres were cut over nearly twenty 

 years ago and negotiations for their purchase 

 have been going on for about a year. 



Forestry in North Carolina 



The North Carolina Geological and Economic 

 Survey last spring sent its forester, .7. S. 

 Holmes, to Europe to study forestry methods 

 there for the express purpose of applying the 

 knowledge thus gained to improve conditions 

 in North Carolina. Mr. Holmes is writing brief 

 bulletins which are being published at the 

 state's expense, and distributed among the 

 people. Such methods as are used in foreign 

 countries, which seem applicable to conditions 

 in North Carolina, are described and the good 

 results obtained are pointed out. Mr. Holmes 

 has found two kinds of work carried on in for- 

 eign countries which he believes can be profit- 

 ably undertaken in his state. One is the fixing 

 of sand dunes on the southwestern coast of 

 France, for a distance of 170 miles, along the 

 Bay of Biscay. A century ago that region was 

 almost a desert, owing to the cutting of the 

 forests and the drifting of sand. By planting 

 trees and sowing coarse grass the moving sand 

 has been stopped, and the region is again pros- 

 perous and fertile. 



Mr. Holmes sees a very similar problem to 



