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of pine, tamarack, maple, elm, hickory, spruce, 

 tir and cottonwooil. Tlie plant will commence 

 operations about Sept, 1. 



Texas Post Oak. 



Lumbermen of Waco. Tex., are of the opinion 

 tliat they have been overlooking a great oppor- 

 tunity in the timber line, and are enthusiastic 

 over the possibilities of the post oak of that 

 section. Messrs. Moore and Mallander have 

 been making experiments and tests, and if they 

 continue to be satisfactory, there may be buiit 

 a plant for the manufacture of the wood into 

 lumber. The timber is plentiful in the district, 

 and it is believed that it can bo extensively 

 used for furniture. Polished pieces are smooth 

 and beautiful, the grain being handsome tor 

 use in desks, tables, etc., while its closeness 

 insures durability. When properly kiln dried, it 

 is thought it can be successfully employed even 

 for buggies and wagons. 



Building Operations for May. 



Building operations from some fifty leading 

 cities tliroughout the country as officially re- 

 ported to The American Contractor, Chicago, 

 and tabulated, indicate a far greater activity 

 than could be expected under the favorable 

 circumstances of a backward season and un- 

 propitious agricultural reports, which play an 

 important part when actual money is to be 

 liberated for building construction. Compared 

 v\'ith May. 1906. tiie past month shows a loss 

 of only 1 per cent in the aggregate building 

 construction in some fifty cities. The losses 

 and gains are in cities widely scattered 

 throughout th^ country plainly indicating local 

 causes: 



May, M.iy. Per Per 



1907, laOB. cent cent 



Cit.v — cost. cost. gain. loss. 



Atlanta .$ 42S.774 $ 549.197 ... :;i 



Birminghaiu 194,670 23C.7.-.2 ... 17 



Brirtgepon '- 148.220 2SS..=iO<i ... 40 



Buffalo 742.0I>> 1.289,590 ... 42 



Chicago 6,120,750 6.495,620 ... 5 



Cleveland 1,310,048 1,372,129 ... 4 



Davenport 28,033 30.625 ... .8 



Dallas 237,137 267,248 ... 11 



Denver 324.350 445,720 ... 27 



Detroit 1.715,350 1,227.401) 40 . . 



Duluth 397.790 3.15,533 U . . 



Evansville 94..'i6il ,55.092 71 . . 



Orand liapirts 194, .'iOS 238.332 ... IS 



Hartford 3S3.4S0 327.310 17 . . 



Indianapolis 49C,.337 489.724 1 . . 



Kansas Citv 1.280,135 910,570 40 .. 



Los .\nsele~ 1.005,6115 1,051.832 . . . 3 



Louisville 404,862 495,975 ... IS 



Milwaukee 2,274,379 751.121 202 .. 



Minneapolis 1,626,425 .847.360 91 . . 



Memphis 394.989 343.200 15 . , 



Mobile 133.9(Xl 94.22:1 42 .. 



•Nashville 219. ,876 475.0.38 ... 53 



New Orleans 992,6251 586.718 69 



.Manhattan 11,975,951 15,940,430 ... 24 



Brooklyn 6.426.690 8. 809. .500 ... 5 



Bronx , , . . 2.468.675 3.332.665 . . . 25 



Xew Yolk 2,1,871,316 26.0S2„595 ... 20 



Dmaha 439.325 706.175 ... 37 



Paterson , , , 189,819 139,969 35 . . 



Philadeli.hia .5,883,920 4,886,655 16 



Pittsburu S8il,013 1,115,337 . , . 21 



Povtlanil 1,152,467 1,087,769 5 . . 



Pueblo 36.7,85 18,315 125 . . 



Eeadins S42.845 1.049,690 ... 19 



Rochester 823.8fl5 615.396 1 



San Francis,.,, , . 3.426.4.57 •• •• •' 



Scranton 189.415 248.725 ... :;l 



Spokane 761.040 360,436 111 



St, Joseph 121,103 137,393 ... It 



St. Louis 1,983,758 2,163,255 ... 8 



St. Paul 889.542 971.2.59 ... 8 



San .\ntonio 114,955 110,,535 3 . . 



Seattle 933,.870 726,673 28 . . 



South Bend 184,710 61.905 198 



Syracuse 360,855 192. 380 82 



Salt Lake Cit\ 105,500 320.700 ... 67 



Toledo 471, ,320 497,922 15 .. 



Terre Haute 124,946 117.228 6 . . 



Taeoma 305,495 263,230 16 . . 



Washington 768,167 1,341,766 ... 42 



Worcester 339.045 886,332 . . . 60 



Wllkesbarre 209.840 520.445 ... ,59 



Total ,$83,001,137 $63,715,483 ... 1 



*Nashville issued one permit of .$300,000 in May, 

 1908, 



*'Xo records. 



1621 First National Bank building, Chicago, has 

 appointed E. C. Dawley of Antigo, Wis., as its 

 representative, to succeed A. C. Quixley, who 

 resigned to enter business on his own account 

 as a member of the firm of Quixley & Mc- 

 Arthur, at Beloit 



While the Chicago trade is sorry to lose Mr. 

 Quixley, it will Hud Mr. Dawley a welcome ad- 

 dition. Although a very young man, he has 

 been engaged in the lumber business, in one 

 capacity or another, for eleven years, and has 

 been employed by the T. D. Kellogg Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company of Antigo and the I'age 



Tower Lumber Trimmer. 



That enterprising house, the Gordon Hollow 

 Blast Grate Company of Greenville, Mich,, in 

 pursuance of its traditional policy to keep all 

 its machinery thoroughly up-to-date, has 

 within the last year remodeled its entire line 

 of "Tower" edgers and trimmers, consisting 

 of forty different sizes and kinds. Our readers 

 cantiot fail to be interested in sawmill ma- 

 chinery representing the most advanced ideas, 

 and herewith are shown two views of the 

 Tower one-man two-saw trimmer, small size. 

 As is well known, the distinguis^hing fea- 



FRONT VIEW TUWEU IKl.M.MEK. 



& Landeck Lumber Company at Crandon. Before 

 coming to Chicago he was inspector and traveler 

 for the Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company. He 

 is thoroughly experienced in all phases of the 

 business, from the woods to the lumber yard, 

 and well deserves the confidence of his employ- 

 ers and confreres. 



tures of the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Com- 

 pany's trimmers are the manner of shifting 

 the saws, which increases the capacity and re- 

 duces the waste, and the double feed works, 

 which can be started, stopped or changed 

 while the saws continue in motion. All that 

 is necessary to obtain access to the saws is 



HAiK VIEW -TO WE 



Form Large Lumber Concern. 



Advices from Saginaw, Mich., under date of 

 May 28 announce that Congressman J, W. 

 Fordney of Saginaw and F. yV- Gilchrist of 

 Alpena, with his three sons, Frank R, of 

 Cleveland, Ralph of Alpena, and W, A. of 

 Memphis, are the incorporators of a large 

 lumber concern to be known as the Gilchrist 

 Fordney Company, with a capital of $1,200,000. 

 The company has purchased 50,000 acres of 

 timber land near Laurel, Miss., estimated to 

 contain 600,000,000 feet of logs, mostly pine, 

 some of it hardwood, however. The Kingston 

 Lumber Company's plant at Laurel has also 

 been purchased; it has a capacity of 150,000 

 feet a day. The sales department of the new 

 concern will be conducted through the office of 

 the Three States Lumber Company of Mem- 

 phis, another Gilchrist institution. 



li" TRIMMER. 



to remove the bridge-tree at the end of the 

 machine. The legs, of which there are tour, 

 are of iron. Observe the extreme simplicity of 

 the entire machine. 



New Representative at Chicago, 



The Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Rhinehimler. Wis., which maintains an office at 



Important Lumber Deal. 



One of the most important lumber transac- 

 tions occurring in Pittsburg recently was the 

 taking over of the properties of A. Thomp- 

 son of Philadelphia, the Blackwater Lumber 

 Company and the Thompson Lumber Com- 

 pany of Davis, W. Va., by the Babcock Lum- 

 ber & Boom Company, composed of Pittsburg 

 men. These properties are some of the most 

 valuable in West Virginia, and are rated at 

 considerably over $1,000,000. The deal in- 

 volves about 1,000,000 feet of cut lumber and 

 the same amount of logs, the remaining 

 stumpage amounting to 350,000,000 feet. The 

 development of the tract will be continued at 

 the rate of about 2,800,000 feet monthly. The 

 same interests recently bought holdings of 

 about the same magnitude in eastern Tennes- 

 see, 



The Forests of Norway. 



.\lthough 20,324 square miles, or twenty-one 

 per cent of the total area of Norway is still said 

 to be covered with forests, having an estimated 

 value of about ,$122,000,000, the products of 

 these woods remain, as they have for years, the 

 principal item on that country's export list. 

 Real forests, where lumber of useful sizes is 

 found, are now confined to the eastern and cen- 

 tral part of the country, while on the coast land, 

 from the southern part to the Russian frontier 

 bordering the Arctic Ocean, there is hardly any- 

 thing left of the abundance of large trees which 

 formerly covered those districts. 



The real forest trees of the country are the 

 birch, spruce and the Scotch fir. The two latter 

 grow intermingled, the flr predominating on dry 

 ground and extending to a higher altitude than 

 does the spruce, which will not thrive north of 

 the polar circle. These three varieties prevail 

 in nearly all parts of the country, often in un- 

 mixed heavy forests, but usually intermingled, 

 or with other less common species of trees. 

 North of the polar circle the birch forms the 

 great bulk of the forests and it is particulary 

 plentiful on the coast. The conifers grow as 

 high up as 2,G00 feet, while the birches may be 

 found at an altitude of 3,500 feet. Three-fourths 

 of the forest area is covered with conifers. 



The annual lumber production is about 344,- 

 000,000 cubic feet for the entire country, or 203 

 cubic feet per acre of forest land. About one- 

 filth of this quantity is exported, the remainder 

 consumed in Norway. About 20,000 persons 



