HARDWOOD RECORD 



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where large quantities of the lumber are pro- 

 duced. In California and the Northwest it 



trict. Considerable quantities of the lumber 

 go into export to Mexico, (lieat Britain and 

 the Continent. 



The picture herewith produced illustrating 

 the growth of Pinus ponderosa is from a 

 photograph made by the writer on the prop- 

 erty of the American Lumber Company in 

 Valencia county, New Mexico; the trainload 

 "f logs was photographed at the mill of the 



TRAINLOAD WESTERN WHITE PINE LOGS, 

 FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. 



constitutes only a portion of the general mill 

 product, as it often grows interspersed with 

 ■white pine and redwood, and farther north, 

 with the fir and cedars. 



The good end of the lumber product of 

 Finvs ponderosa is being shipped often as 

 far east as Cleveland, Pittsburg, Philadel- 

 phia and New York. The doors manufactured 

 in the local plants and in the Middle West 

 are sold as white pine the country over, and 

 a good many even go into export. The box 

 shook product ' finds its best niarket in the 

 fruit growing district of California, and 

 large quantities are also consumed in Colorado 

 and as far east as the Mississippi river dis- 



STRAW AND CONE OF PINUS PONDEROSA. 



Arizona Timber & Lumber Company, Flag- 

 .staff, Arizona. 



'Builders of Lumber History. 



iSce Portrait i^uppivmcnt.) 

 {See Portrait Supplement.) — Nonp. Italic. 



While the number of successful hardwood 

 lumbermen who started out in life in other 

 business is comparatively few, among that 

 few may be mentioned prominently Thomas 

 J. Moffett. 



Mr. Moffett was born Dec. 3, 1864, at 

 Edinburg, Ind., and was educated in the 

 public schools of that town, from which he 

 was graduated with honors. At fourteen 

 years of age he went to work washing bot- 

 tles in a drug store at $1.50 a week, and 

 during the next six years he acquired a 

 general knowledge of the drug business, as 

 clerk in this store. In his twentieth year 

 he went to Philadelphia, where he obtained 

 a position in a drug store and entered the 

 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the lead- 

 ing institution in that line in the country. 



After graduating with the degree of Ph. 

 G. he returned to Edinburg and engaged in 

 the drug business with his two brothers, 

 Owen and Charles, under the name of Mof- 

 fett Brothers. Charles died soon after the 

 partnership was formed, but Thomas and 

 Owen continued the liusiness until, feeling 

 the need of a life less confining than the 

 drug trade, Thomas J. Moffett moved to 

 Dayton, O., and bought the Daniels interest 

 in the lumber firm of Maley, Daniels & 

 Thompson. The concern then became Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett. L, .T. Thimijison of 



NUMBER XXV. 



this firm is a brother-in-law of Mr. Moffett. 

 At that time the company operated one 

 band sawmill. This was moved about ten 

 years ago from Dayton to Cincinnati and 

 located at McLean avenue and Eighth 

 street. The firm was incorporated some 

 years later and shortly afterward, on the 

 death of Mr. Thompson, the business was 

 acquired by T. J. Moffett and E. W. Bob- 

 bins, who still operate under the name of 

 Maley, Thompson & Moft'ett. 



The present officers are: T. J. Moffett, 

 president and treasurer; E. W. Bobbins, 

 vice president and general manager, and 

 C. L. Smith, secretary. In ten years the 

 business of the company has developed with 

 astonishing rapidity. Instead of one band 

 sawmill the company now owns four modern 

 sawmills complete in every particular, and 

 a great veneer plant, perfectly equipped. One 

 sawmill at Havana, Cuba, cuts mahogany 

 exclusively; another mill is located at Rapid 

 Run, O.; and one is also in commission in 

 western Kentucky. These, with the original 

 mill at Cincinnati, make the quartet of saw- 

 mills to which is added the veneer plant, 

 which produces from T.'i.OOO to 100,000 feet 

 of veneer a day. 



This wonderful growth will not be consid- 

 ered phenomenal when one knows T. J. 

 Moffett. He has that thorough identifica- 

 tion with liusiiii'ss which is concomitant 

 with success, a lack of whicli is indicative 



of failure. It is probable that when he was 

 a druggist he was one of the best in the 

 trade, just as it goes without saying that 

 the name T. J. Moffett stands today in the 

 hardwood industry for strict integrity and 

 clean methods, as well as business acumen of 

 more than ordinary quality. It also stands 

 for gentility, sociability, civic pride and 

 interest quite as much as for business suc- 

 cess. 



Thomas J. Moffett is one of Cincinnati 'a 

 leading citizens. Last year he was presi- 

 dent of the Cincinnati Business Men's 

 Club, an organization of a thousand mem- 

 l>crs, and gave to it the most successful ad- 

 ministration it had ever known. He was 

 formoi-ly president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club and is a member of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, of the Carriage Club, of the 

 Manufacturers' Club and of the Associated 

 Organization.s. 



Mr. Moffett was at one time a member of 

 the examining board of Purdue University, 

 Lafayette, Ind., and was recently appointed 

 by the mayor of Cincinnati one of the direc- 

 tors of the University of Cincinnati. He is 

 also director in the University school, chair- 

 man of the Erkenberker Memorial Commis- 

 sion, which aims to erect a suitable monu- 

 ment to the founder of the Cincinnati Zoo, 

 and a director of the Third National Bank, 

 one of Cincinnati's foremost financial insti- 

 tutions. 



Mr. Moffett is a man of commanding 

 presence, who instantly gives an impression 

 of forcefulness and reserve power, and he 

 exemplifies most thoroughly the honest, 

 earnest, energetic, brainy business man of 

 today. His executive ability is unques- 

 tioned. One may admire a man who does 

 things, but one will respect the man who 

 does things in the best possible manner. 

 Thomas J. Moffett is a diplomat as well as a 

 business man, a combination seldom found 

 in the same individual. To honor him is to 

 honor the entire lumber trade. 



N. W. L. D. A. Coimnittees Appointed. 



The Hakdwood Record is in receipt from 

 Secretary Perry of the list of committees for 

 1006 and l'.)i)7 appointed by the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. The maiie-up 

 of these committees remains essentially the same 

 as last year. The hardwood inspection com- 

 mittee consists of : 



M. M. Wall, Buffalo, N. Y., chairman. 



W. L. Sykes, Keating Summit, Pa. 



.1. V. Stiuisou. Iluntingburg, Ind. 



.1. L. Alcock. Caltioiore, Md. 



N. H. Walcott. Providence, R. I. 



M. B. Farrin, Cincinnati, O. 



W. E. Litchfield, Boston, Mass. 

 The forestry committee is as follows ; 



(i. F. Craig, Philadelphia, Pa., chairman. 



W. H. Gratwlck, North Tonawanda, N. Y. 



G. C. Edwards, Ottawa, Out. 



C. B. Farr, Willlamsport, Pa. 



Sam Bui'kholder, Crawfordsvilie, Ind. 



J. B. Blades, Elizabeth City, N. C. 

 The new advisory committee to the American 

 Forestry Association is composed of the follow- 

 ing: 



R. C. Llpplncott, Philadelphia, Pa., chairman. 



George F. Craig. Fhilndclrihia, Pa. 



Lewis Dill, Baltimore, Mil. 



