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HARDWOOD RECORD 



at Berkel(»>' by one of the college men who has 

 been working in the Shasta region this year. 

 The territory was so carefully watched and 

 obedience to the regulations so strongly de- 

 manded this year tliat only one fire was started 

 in it. This did little damage. 



Such a report as this is in decided contrast 

 to those which it has been the misfortune of 

 the country to bear in past years. An inter- 

 esting example of the safeguards which are 

 now being thrown around the forests is the 

 forest telei)hone service, which covers mile after 

 mile of the timber lands, allowing a few inspect- 

 ors to do a great deal of work in a sliort time 

 and still do it thoroughly. The government de- 

 serves every bit of support that the nation can 

 give it in this great task, and it may be said 

 to the great credit of the state of California 

 that her people have stood decisively for the 

 new administration of forestry affairs. 



What Is Doing. 



The II.iRDWOou Rkcmrd is in receipt of a very 

 neat little booklet bearing the above title, set- 

 ting forth a numlier of reports of general inter- 

 est, on various kinds of timber land, prepared 

 by C. A. Schenck & Co., consulting forest engi- 

 neers of Biltmore, N. C. For clearness and con- 

 cisene.ss these reports are remarkable, and any- 

 one who knows the reputation of the house by 

 which they were prepared can vouch for their 

 thoroughness and accuracy. 



In an original and effective little preface, Dr. 

 Schenck writes : "We claim to command un- 

 paralleled experience in practical woodcraft. 

 Your knowledge plus our knowledge is double 

 knowledge. Why not obtain double knowledge? 

 Our knowledge is yours for the asking. We 

 have studied diligently, and having worked faith- 

 fully for many a year, we dare say that we 

 know the forest : that we know the methods 

 of valuation, exploitation, development, survey- 

 ing, engineering, cruising. Many of these meth- 

 ods have been devised by us. We promise tu 

 supply all that we can, and we can supply all 

 that we promise. We assist you as expert ad- 

 visers and not as commission brokers. Stop 

 right here I You need not read any further if 

 you know what is coming : We cannot he bribed I 

 We want to be paid by you for our actual serv- 

 ice as cruisers, engineers, surveyors, experts, 

 foresters, estimators. It is wise to be good 

 when you must, and it is good to be good when 

 you mustn't I" 



The little book is full of these and other trite 

 sentences, together with a comprehensive report 

 on certain longleaf pine lands, dilating on the 

 possibility of agricultural use, turpentining, 

 ranching, stand of timber, quality of timber ; 

 also a report on hardwood lands, answering the 

 following qiu'stions. put by the owner: What 

 is the stunipage cm my land? What is the top- 

 ography and its accessibility? What is the ex- 

 pense of lumbering, and what is the value of 

 my timber? What damage (which I may re- 

 cover from the railroad responsible I 



has a certain fire done to my property? What 

 is the aggregate value of it? A report on hard- 

 wood bottoms subject to overflow deals with the 

 logging pro])osition and with the stunipage sep- 

 arated by kinds : one on yellow pine, cypress 

 and hardwood lands gives the total stand of 

 timber on a tract of 78,840 acres; in each case 

 the charge for the service is given. A copy of 

 the booklet will he forwarded on application, 

 and should be of interest to all stumpage 

 owners. 



Sale of Michigan Timber lana. 



liay City papers announce the sale of 2,(1IK1 

 acres of hardwood timber land in Montmorency 

 county. Michigan, by the W. II. White Company 

 of Boyne City to tile Ivneoland-Bigelow Company 

 of Bay City. Tliis is a tract remote from the 

 main holdings' of the former concern and lies 

 east of tbc Mackinac division of tlie Michigan 

 Central. The principal holdings of the Whil'- 

 comjiany are west of this division. Tlie coiupany 



originally intended to tap this timber with its 

 Boyne City & Eastern Uallroad by building a 

 line through Alpena, but has abandoned the 

 project for the present, and has made the ter- 

 minal of its road its junction with the Michigan 

 Central. The Kneeland-Bigelow Company will 

 log this timber over the Michigan Central and 

 transport it to Bay City for manufacture in its 

 mills there. 



Tlie W. H. White Company has well toward 

 4.">,000 acres of uncut timber land between Boyne 

 City and the line of the Midiignn Central which 

 will svipply its big and varied manufacturing and 

 i-emanufacturing plants at Boyne City with stock 

 for many years to come. It is estimated that the 

 timber sold to the Kneeland-Bigelow Company 

 will cut upwards of 23,000.000 feet. One par- 

 ticular feature of the transaction is noted — 

 that it was a cash sale, the entire amount of 

 money involved being paid over in a lump sum. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



It is claimed that a comparatively new source 

 of tannin has been developed in the palmetto, 

 whose leaves contain the foundation principle 

 in a form easily extracted. It is further as- 

 serted by experts that the employment of these 

 leaves will be found more economical than oak 

 and hemlock bark. 



The steamer Montauk left Vera Cruz, Jlex.. 

 August 19, after unloading the biggest cargo of 

 railroad ties that ever came to that ijort in one 

 vessel. The consignment consisted of 72,000 

 cedar ties from Canada for the Mexican South- 

 ern Railroad. 



J. W. Henney, of the Ilenney Buggy Company, 

 and O. P. W^right. both of Freeport, 111., will 

 form a company there and build a new vehicle 

 plant. 



The Wilkinson Lumber Company lias been in- 

 corporated at Cary, N. C, with $2.";, 000 capital 

 stock, to establish a lumber plant at Cary and 

 operate a planing mill at Dunn. F. E. Grey is 

 president and T. F. Wilkinson manager. 



The McCormack Development Company has 

 been incorporated at Carthage, N. C, with 

 .$100,000 capital stock, to develop timber lands. 

 The Montezuma Lumber Company, incorpor- 

 ated at Montezuma, N. C, last month with .$23,000 

 capital stock, owns about 10,000,000 to 15,- 

 000.000 feet of hardwood, white pine and hem- 

 lock, and expects to contract all its work to 

 portable mills. J. L. Lowe of Montezuma is 

 treasurer and G. H. Mell of Kane, I'a., president. 

 In the construction of the North German 

 I.loyd steamship, the Kronprinzessin Cecile, the 

 newest and finest of the floating palaces on the 

 Atlantic, 42.000 cubic feet of teakwood, 70.300 

 cubic feet of Oregon and pitch pine and 19,420 

 feet of pine were used. 



E. E. Carrier, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Xiques-I-enoire Company of New Orleans, 

 exporters of hardwood, is arranging to extend 

 the company's operations in that territory. The 

 company has purchased many hundred acres of 

 hardwood along the Colorado Southern and 

 lias several stave making camps in operation. 



Chicago capitalists have been in Mount 

 I'leasant. Tex., recently and have purchased 

 several thousand acres of fine timber lands 

 near there ; they expect to build a large veneer 

 factory. ■ 



The Cadillac Veneer Company is sending out 

 some very choice freight. One day's shipment 

 recently was three cai-loads, one of handsome 

 bird's-eye maple stock. 



It is expected that the new Knight-McLean 

 veneer factory at New Albany, Ind., will be com- 

 pleted and put in operation this year, giving 

 employment to a hundred or more skilled oper- 

 ators. 



The various saw mills at work in and around 

 Stilhvcll, I. T., are shipping many carloads of 

 liardwood timber to all parts of the country. 



Till' .\merican Veneering Company of Indianap- 

 olis lias purchased three acres of ground near 

 llic Frisco tracks north of Fiu-t Sinilli. \vk.. 



on which to establish a plant. The company 

 Is capitalized at $25,000 and will employ from 

 twenty-five to thirty men. The company has 

 a force of men cutting a quantity of gum tim- 

 ber recently purchased north of the city. 



R. L. Dennison of Cherryvale, Kan., says that 

 the Forestry Bureau has recommended that 

 everybody in his region get busy planting Osage 

 orange trees in order that there may never 

 be "a famine in fence posts." He claims that 

 this is never likely to occur, since he has in- 

 vented a process for making posts out of shale, 

 which will last a thousand years. 



Tlie Leimard Brush and Woodenware Company 

 has been incorporated at Louisville, Ky., with a 

 capital of ?9,000. 



A. P. Iluson. the new state deputy fire war- 

 den for King county, Washington, is touring 

 that county and posting notices warning all 

 persons from leaving lighted fires or consum- 

 ing slashings without permits. Loggers will be 

 required to have spark arresters on engines to 

 avoid starting a fire from flying sparks. 



A woods cruiser' after inspecting a tract of 

 timber forty miles north of Escanaba, Mich., 

 estimates that one-half of the standing hem- 

 lock on 300 acres of land has been killed by 

 porcupines. The district is overrun with the 

 little animals, whic'h in the early spring months 

 of each year have clipped off the budding foliage, 

 killing the trees, until now there is more dead 

 than live timber on the tract. 



An English contemporary says that the de- 

 mand for Japanese hardwoods continues brisk 

 and that the parcels already received appear to 

 be giving general satisfaction. Much is being 

 done there to improve the facilities both for 

 transport and manufacture and the forests of 

 .lapan in spite of reports to the contrary are 

 sufficient to last for many years. The aver- 

 age oak timber does not run to the dimensions 

 of that grown in Europe and America, but it 

 is very tough and well suited for heavy work. 

 Some of the wood also is very beautifully 

 marked and adapted for the best cabinet work. 



The Edinburg Spoke and Bending Company 

 has been incorporated at Edinburg. Va., to manu- 

 facture spokes, rims, felloes, etc. .T. M. Solomon 

 is president, 



H. E. Clark and associates of Ben Camp- 

 bel. Pa., have Just purchased a tract of 15.000 

 acres of timber lying in Grayson and Smyth 

 counties, Virginia, and Mitchell county. North 

 Carolina. The syndicate headed by Mr. Clark 

 also owns extensive timber interests in Johnson 

 county, Tennessee, and Ashe county. North 

 Carolina, and will, it is said, at once Ijegin the 

 development of the property on a hig scale. 

 This will mean the installation of a large num- 

 ber of band mills and the employment of an 

 army of men. Several mills will be located in 

 East Tennessee. 



The way the timber supply of the United 

 States is going can be realized from one item 

 which is hardly thought of, and tliat is the 

 manufacture of paper. There are, all told, 1.100 

 paper mills in the lUnited States, producing 

 .$200,000,000 worth of paper a year. They 

 burn up .'i. 000.000 tons of coal yearly and shred 

 2.000,500 cords of wood into pulp. About 12.- 

 0(10.500 trees averaging nine inches in diameter 

 arc cut down to feed these paper mills. 



All the forestry in Great Britain that amounts 

 to much is done by the owners or managers of 

 the great estates. There is no recognized school 

 of forestry, which seems remarkable for a coun- 

 try which raises .$15,000,000 worth of merchant- 

 alile timber and imports $130,000,000 worth. 



Forest fires have been blazing on all sides of 

 Toulon, France, the past week and two forts 

 were threatened. Troops made desperate efforts 

 to control the fire, but at last report had secured 

 little result owing to high wind. 



Prominent New York financial interests have 

 incorporated the Parker-Thompson-Veeder Com- 

 pany with a capital stock of $100,000 and a sur- 

 plus of $23,000 to develop a O.ooo-acre tract rif 

 limber land recently acquired in P.iirke couuly. 



