HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Chemical Plant Cummer-Diggins Company at Cadillac. 



peninsula of MieUigau, lUivllicru Wiseousiii, 

 over the Minnesota line, in northern New 

 York, Vermont, New Hanipsliire, Pennsylva- 

 nia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, 

 there are scattering stands of this wood, and 

 these constitute aliout all that reinains in 

 tins ('(puntrv. Tlic tiiiil)cv of tlie first-named 



sections is not so large and free from de- 

 fects as that in the Cadillac district, but is 

 extremely hard in texture and valuable for 

 many of the uses to which maple is placed. 

 The wood growing in the last-named states 

 will not bear any comparison with the Michi- 

 gan product. 



The color of the heartwood is brownish, 

 and the sapwood, which predominates, is 

 much lighter, almost ivory white. The struc- 

 ture is compact, the grain close, occasionally 

 curly or birdseye. The wood is tough, heavy, 

 hard, strong, will take a high polisli, wears 

 evenly and is very durable when not exposed 

 to alternating dryness and dam)>ness. 



Cobbs 6 Mitchell. Inc.. at Cadillac. 



