HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Increase in Veneer Production, 



A i-ecellt rep<n't issued l).v tlic liii-fcTur of Ihv 

 Inited States Census contains statistics cover- 

 ing tlie manufacture of veneers from domestic 

 woods for the year ending December .'U. lOot;. 

 Statistics giving tlie production and consumiJtion 

 of Iunil>er products of various Icinds Iiave here- 

 tofore lieen collected in connection with the cen- 

 suses of manufactures, but ti> meet the urgent 

 demand for more frequent information the I'lu-- 

 est Service collected figures for llion, which are 

 given l)e!o\v for comparisoit with those of lOOii. 

 These figures are from l:;S mills in mn." and :U7i 

 ill llMiii. showing a wonderful increase in their 



number during a single year : 



Veneers 



r^)gs used— 1.000 ft.. proiluceil— 1,01"! 



Kind (»f log scale. siinnre feet, 



wooil— 1!I06. 190.1. IHOti. liio.i. 



lieil sum 72.S62 :W.."i73 :!17.B:)7 1.S7.1I-10 



Vfllow pine 4.J.181 12.6SS 177.t)(i4 41.0IJ1I 



White oak 38..S98 16.1251 2,s.!.o.-,<i ll.-,,2ll.- 



^Maple 30,386 26.240 :;t(l.74» 17:i.,S()ll 



CittiMiwiwd 29.063 16.3.17 l(l.s.o:l4 4.'.. 223 



V.-llow iMplar... 21.619 26.164 l.-.,S.S4S ].->!. .StH! 



Mussw.Kjil l.'i.Sait 11.376 73.443 S2.1l2.-« 



HIrili 14.286 12.643 137.Wl.-i 12S..-.21 



i:irn 11.982 3.544 ill.903 60.70.S 



Tn]>elo 8.311 314 41.7.->.-i 1.S06 



Iteil oak 8.104 4.9.'55 .-6.712 31.<04 



S|irui-e 6.377 .i9.796 



Iteech 5.334 1.40" 3!).,s.-i.-. IS. 765 



.X«li 5.214 2.461 27.il.-.l 21.648 



Walnut 5.121 1.72.-. 4.-..::lo 21. LSI 



Sviiiniorc' 4. .130 .-)76 l,s.0S2 1.435 



.Ul other 3.6;i9 2.995 IK. 034 19.603 



Total 328.567 181.146 1,965.948 1.108.51S 



■ 'Leith I'"risco.' never known to give up any- 

 ibing he got hold of. 



■■ '(ilad.vs Krisco.' wiuild lie perfectly still 

 and never move. 



■■ tiwendolyn Krisco.' ditto, ditto — not eniun- 

 erated by your section man. as she was ground 

 too Hne to be identified only as sausage. 



"How sad the scene! This frolicsome family, 

 full of contentment and sweet milk, sleeping at 

 train-time in tile almost absolute certainty of 

 being undisturbed, and then cut down and 

 ground up by one of your rusty old iron kettles, 

 to suddenly awake in I'aradise far. far away 

 from dear old Arkansas, and remote from any 

 I'l-isco terminal shown in .your f4)lders. 



"Your scholarly section boss posted tlieir 

 death notices and gave their ages as exactly five 

 weeks : it is very remarkable that yon can hire 

 a man at $37. ."ill per month who has the intelli- 

 gence to look a dead pig in the face and tell 

 his exact age to a day — something his own 

 father could not do. 



"In view of this bereavement we trust to be 

 favored with your check for at least fifteen 

 dollars i.1il.-|). and as much more as the pedigree, 

 ancestry and high qualities of this buncli of 

 pigs would call for: with the proceeds we pro- 

 pose to erect a suitable monument <'onimemorat- 

 ing the illustrious dead. 



"Yours truly 



"(_'. I). BOTXTOX." 



Another Boyntonism. 

 There are often all sorts of way's and means 

 to the same end. and the following is one idea 

 of jiresenting a claim against a railroad for tlie 

 destriK-tion of live stock. Those who know < '. 

 It. Uoynton. the "lumberman-wit." president of 

 the Uoynton Land and Lumber ('ompany of 

 Uoynton. Ark., and St. Louis. Mo., would not 

 liave to read very far into the missive to recog- 

 nize his unique and amusing humor : it is safe 

 to say that he'll get the money all right ; 



".lune 17. 10(17. 

 "G. <;. lieckley. Esq.. 



"Live Stock Claim Agent iCow Coroneri. 

 "Frisco System. Cape (iirardeau. .Mo. 

 "My I tear Sir — If is my painful duty to in- 

 form you of the melancholy fact that six .young 

 and helpless but high-bred and innocent pigs 

 met a sudden and horrible death on your right 

 of way at Boynton. Ark., on or about May 128. 

 1SI07. all of which was a great sh(x-k to their 

 friends and relatives as well as a sudden reverse 

 in fortune to myself. 



"From the testimony of eye-witnesses and oth- 

 ei'S the facts are as hereinafter related : 



"I own a pedigreed Arkansas brood sow. whom 

 I named 'Frisco' Ijocause she takes everything 

 into her system, although the Frisco is mostly 

 full of water and she generally contained pigs. 

 She, being of a trusting and confiding nature, se- 

 lected a spongy place in the middle of your 

 track, and. gathering her progeny about her, 

 proceeded to let them draw nourishment from 

 her system. While thus engaged your T.each- 

 ville Flyer' came along on time — when no one 

 was looking for it— broke up this noble family 

 group and mutilated beyond recognition six 

 members of this porcine household. The mother 

 is inconsolable, but I have not heard how the 

 father takes it — in fact, there seems to be a 

 iiiystery about him or them — of course, there 

 are rumors and all sorts of gossip, as there 

 always are in a small town, but I do not pro- 

 pose to . relate any scandal that I may have 

 heard. It is sufficient to state that the pigs 

 were known by their mother's maiden name. 

 'Frisco.' The deceased are described as fol- 

 lows : 



" 'Hilton Frisco.' known by his white hair and 

 sunny disposition. 



■• 'Washburn Frisco.' easily recognized as the 

 biggest one in the bunch. 



" Towe Frisco.' wanted everything in sight 

 and then was never satisfled. 



Splendid Gum Logs. 



The little picture accompanying this paragraph 

 shows something of the size and quality of the 

 gum timber that grows on tlte holdings of the 

 Newhouse Mill & Lumber Company of (lould. 

 .\rk. This company is a comparatively new en- 

 terprise, of which Samuel Newhouse is pre-iident. 

 With Mr- Newhouse are associated the memlier< 



The above i.s one of the largest transactions 

 lecorded in the parish in several years, and 

 means much to the development o£ that sec- 

 tion. Operations will be commenced, and the 

 necessary machinery placed on the property to 

 turn out staves, spokes and similar products. 



Another transfer of good proportions was 

 recorded at Lake Charles June S, by which a 

 lai-ge tract of fine hardwood land along the 

 Colorado Southern, north of that city, changed 

 hands. John S. Alley of West Newton, Mass., 

 and other members of his family transferred 

 to the Evart Lumber Company. Ltd.. 1.440 

 acres of wooded land for which a price of 

 $43.1:00 was paid. 



FINE ARKANSAS GUM LOGS. 



of the well-known wholesale hardwood and wagon 

 stock institution of Chicago — the Estahrook- 

 Skeele Lumber Company, which is made up of 

 T. S. Estabrook. Edward E. Skeele and .Tames 

 H. West. Thfe company has 11.000 acres of tine 

 timber land near Gould, Ark., and has built an 

 up-to-date mill plant and an extensive logging 

 railroad. The output is largely gum and oak. 



Hardyood Timber Sales. 



A deed to one of the finest tracts of hard- 

 wood timber in Louisiana was filed at Cov- 

 ington. June 7. It related to Honey island, in 

 Pearl river, and was drawn by the Honey 

 Island Land & Timber Company of New Or- 

 leans, to Morgan Jones ai\d 'William A. Hill, 

 conveying the title to 12,S41 acres of heavily 

 wooded land. The compensation was given as 

 $80,000. The transaction also 'includes the 

 sawmill and other improvements at Honey 

 Island station, on the New Orleans & North- 

 eastern railway. 



New Veneer Plant at Nash'rtlle. 



Nashville, Tenn., is soon to have another 

 large lumber manufacturing establishment 

 which will turn out the finest grade.s of veneer. 

 The Frederick W. Black I^umber Company of 

 Chicago has purchased a double block of prop- 

 iM'ty located in West "Nashville, between New 

 York and Pennsylvania avenues, near tlie Illi- 

 nois Central belt line, and is now having the 

 ground staked off for the construction of a 

 factory which will cost about $15,000. In this 

 building about $35,000 worth of modern ma- 

 chinery will be installed, and when the entire 

 plant is ready for operation it will represent 

 an investment of about $6.5,000. 



Plans for the new enterprise are being 

 pushed, and the machinery will probably be 

 shipped within a few days. The company will 

 employ about forty or fifty men at the start, 

 many of whom are high-priced and skilled 

 mechanics. Only the best grades of hardwood 

 lumber will be used, and the finest kinds of 

 veneer, such as is used in handsome furniture 

 and piano woric. will be produced. The com- 

 pany has been doing a wide business from its 

 Chicago office but recognizes the advantages of 

 Nashville for a factory, that city being near 

 the base of supplies and enjoying excellent 

 tr.msportation facilities. 



New Material for Lead Pencils. 



It is predicted that in some factories potato- 

 slarch is to take the place of cedar in the 

 manufacture of lead pencils. The history of 

 the new product began about two and a half 

 years ago when a small company was formed 

 in Germany to perfect and exploit an invention 

 which, instead of making use of cedar wood, 

 substitutes a compact mass, the main in- 

 gredient of which is potatoes. The invention 

 lias finally been perfected and pencils are 

 hfing manufactured preparatory to placing a 

 slock upon the market. Consul Hannah of 

 Magdeburg writes that he has used some of 

 the pencils, which while slightly heavier, are 

 of the same size, form and appearance as the 

 wooden ones, more easily sharpened and much 

 cheaper to manufacture. 



A permanent company was founded in March 

 at Berlin, acting under patents in fourteen 

 countries, with a capital of $154,700. of which 

 $95,200 represents the cost of the patents, 

 while $59,500 has been retained for a working 

 capital; f 19. 040 will be used in erecting a fac- 

 tory, with six presses and a daily output of 

 48.000 pencils. The cost of manufacture, all 

 expenses included— rent, light, power, wages, 

 composition, lead, selling cost, etc. — is esti- 

 mated at $0.00928 each. A second-quality 

 pencil will be made who.se cost will be only 

 $0.00595. 



At the estimated production of 48,000 pencils 

 a day the yearly production would be 14.400.000 

 pencils. According to recent statistics the 

 export from Germany to foreign countries 

 equaled 15.166 tons, with the total number of 

 pencils at 3.033.200.000. 



The cedar wood now in use is expensive, and 

 the supply is exceedingly limited, while this 

 question would not enter 'into the manufacture 

 of potato-starch. It is possible that the new 

 invention, if Judiciously handled, will mark a 

 new era in the production of lead pencils. 



