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HARDWOOD RECORD 



C. F. Smith, Ocmulgee River Lumber Co., 

 Sumter City. Ga. 



R. Lee Riggs, Riggs Cypress Co.. Patterson, 

 La. 



G. W. Jones Lumber Company. 



The G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Ap- 

 pleton. Wis., which is represented in Chicago 

 by A. H. Ruth, a director of the company, 

 whose offices are at 1717 Railway Exchange, 

 is rapidly extending its operations. Recently 

 the company secured a large holding of timber 

 at Forrest City. Ark., where under the name 

 of the Forrest City Manufacturing Co. it oper- 

 ates a modern sawmill. Besides this, the par- 

 ent house has a large band mill at Wabeno. 

 Wis., cutting about 10.000,000 feet of hard- 

 woods per year: two large modern mills at 

 Xettleton, Ark., under the title of the Wis- 

 arkana Lumber Company; and altogether pro- 

 duces and handles well toward 50.000,000 feet 

 of lumber annually. It is one of the largest 

 and best-known concerns in the country en- 

 gaged in the manufacture and jobbing of 

 hardwoods, and by its distributed sources of 

 supply is equally well known to buyers of 

 northern and southern hardwoods. G. 'W. 

 Jones is president and treasurer of the com- 

 pany. R. H. Jones secretary and H. C. Hum- 

 phrey vice president. 



Meeting Executive Committee National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. 



The first meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the National Hardwood Lumber As:^o- 

 ciation since the May election was held at 

 the offices of that organization in the Rector 

 building. Thursday and Friday, June 14 and 

 15. The full executive board was present. 

 It consists of W. H. Russe, chairman; Earl 

 Palmer, G. J. Landeck, C. H. Barnaby and 

 O. O. Agler. Also meeting in conference with 

 the board were W. W. Knight, chairman of 

 the inspection bureau committee; Theodore 

 Fathauer, chairman of the inspection rules 

 committee; T. B. Stone and Max Sondhelmer. 



A considerable mass of inspection matters 

 .coming over from the inspector-general's 

 office was gone over and adjudicated. 



A committee on the car stake controversy, 

 consisting of W. W. Knight, G. J. Landeck 

 and E. F. McMillan, was appointed, to be 

 present at the next meeting, and it was given 

 full power to act in the premises on behalf of 

 the association. 



Discussion prevailed concerning the appoint- 

 ment of an inspector abroad, as suggested at 

 the annual meeting at Memphis in May, but 

 inasmuch as the committee which was ap- 

 pointed to confer with the Exporters' associ- 

 ation had not yet made its report, no definite 

 action was taken. 



The committee in charge of the San Fran- 

 cisco sufferers' fund reported the total col- 

 lection for this charity amounted to $1,045.00. 

 This sum was remitted to Jas. J. Phelan, 

 treasurer of the Red Cross Society at San 

 Francisco. 



A number of applications for membership 

 were received, of which eighteen were ac- 

 cepted and three rejected. 



A resolution prevailed giving Secretary Fish 

 full charge of the office of the association, in- 

 cluding the conduct of the correspondence 

 incident to the inspection department. It 

 was arranged that the surveyor-general 

 should continue to spend practically his full 

 time in road work, lining up inspectors, and 

 in supervision of inspection matters. 



Sawmills Needed in Japan. 



Consular Agent E. J. King reports from 

 Hakodate that the development of the rail- 

 way tie business in northern Japan should 

 prove a good opportunity for the sale of 

 American sawmill and other woodworking ma- 

 chinery. Mr. King writes: 



"American railway ties have been shut out 

 of China by the cheaper hardwood ties from 

 Japan. The latter have mostly been hand 

 hewn, but machinery is now being introduced, 

 and quite a number of small steam sawmills 

 are now working. A new impetus has been 

 given to the exportation of Japanese railway 

 ties by the demand from the west coast of 

 Mexico, where they will again come into com- 

 petition with American 'ties. Already one 

 shipment of 83,000 ties has left Hakodate for 

 Guaymas, Mexico, and arrangements are be- 

 ing made to ship 700.000 ties this year. They 

 are delivered in Mexico for 56 cents gold 

 each. The most of the sawmill machinery 

 now used oh the island of Hokkaido is Eng- 

 lish make, and Americah manufacturers of 

 band and circular saws and of other wood- 

 working machinery would do well to pay some 

 attention to this trade opening. For their 

 benefit I submit a list of names and addresses 

 of some of the principal users of woodwork- 

 ing machinery: Riuyemon Zaimoku Kaisha. 

 Hakodate; The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and 

 The Teshiwo Zaimoku Kaisha. Sapporo: The 

 Hayakita Zaimoku Kaisha. Hayakita. and 

 Mororan Mokuzai Kaisha. Mororan. all on 

 Hokkaido Isl.and. Japan."' 



■Value of Quarter-Sawed Poplar for Pattern 

 Making. 



A writer in one of the technical magazines 

 calls attention to the fact that quarter-sawed 

 lumber is infinitely the best stock to use for 

 thin patterns that have no ribs to hold them 



made with the length of the bottom piece 

 running from one rib to the other, as the bot- 

 tom will stay straight and the side will al- 

 ways draw. If made like Figs. 8 and 9 the 

 effect shown will result, which will distort 

 the ribs so that the pattern will not draw. 

 When the grain of the wood can be put in to 

 run in the same direction as the line of draft 

 a slight warping will not affect the drawing 

 of the pattern. This cannot always be done 

 as patterns thus made would be weak in vital 

 parts. 



Cutting Hardwoods in Panama. 



Consul James C. Kellogg, of Colon, writes 

 that the new sawmill on the Triana river near 

 Porto Bello, Panama, is now in full operation 

 sawing the many valuable hardwoods of the 

 district, including lignum vitae, mahogany, 

 coeobolo, ebony and black palm. The many 

 contracts for the suppl.v of these woods in 

 Colon are being filled. The parties interested 

 in this new enterprise are Messrs. Nonte, Ho- 

 ratio Stevenson and A. Barrier of Porto Bello 

 and Colon. 



New Hardwood Lumber Company. 



The Batchelor Timber Company of Saginaw. 

 Mich., which is made up of Henry A. Batch- 

 elor. J. T. Wylie and other stockholders in- 

 terested in the Wylie & Buell Lumber Com- 

 pany, and which is the owner of a large area 

 of hardwood timber land near Frederick, 

 Mich., on the Mackinaw Division of the Mich- 

 igan Central, has purchased the milling plant 



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is not always easy to obtain. A salesman for 

 one of the leading poplar houses of the coun- 

 try says that he has sold many of the larger 

 manufacturers for use in their pattern shops, 

 rift -sawed poplar, and that the users are all 

 enthusiastic over its high value for tlie pur- 

 pose named. 



As is well known, quarter-sawed boards are 

 cut radially, as indicated in Fig. 1, and but 

 comparatively little quarter-sawed stock is ob- 

 tained from each log, owing to the relatively 

 wasteful method of this kind of manufacture. 

 Quarter-sawed lumber is practically free from 

 any tendency to warp under varying atmos- 

 pheric conditions. A flat-sawed poplar board 

 like Fig. 2 will not stay straight and in cor- 

 rect line required for patterns. Howev.er. 

 when two pieces of flat-sawed stock are glued 

 together, as indicated in Fig. 3. the warping 

 of one piece counteracts that of the other, 

 and the joints will not readily open at the 

 edges as they will if the pieces are laid as 

 indicated in Figs. 4 and 5. If one piece is 

 glued across another, the effect shown in Fig. 

 6 will result, unless the glue does not hold or 

 the piece splits in shrinking. Board A pulls 

 enough in shrinking to bend board B in its 

 length. When absolutely dry lumber of four 

 or more thicknesses is employed, the cross- 

 graining of the stock is effective in holding it 

 straight. 



A pattern like Fig. 7 is more serviceable 



of the Gale Lumber Company at West Branch, 

 Mich. The Batchelor Timber Company is en- 

 gaged in entirely rebuilding the sawmill and 

 will log its timber and move it by rail to 

 the mill for sawing. As an adjunct of this 

 enterprise the company proposes to build an 

 up-to-date flooring plant to provide an outlet 

 for its maple and beech product. A general 

 office has been opened in the Bearinger build- 

 ing. Saginaw, which will be the headquarters 

 of the company. 



Possibilities in Santo Domingo. 



A recent statement of the foreign commerce 

 of the Republic of Santo Domingo showing 

 the possibilities for the development of Ameri- 

 can trade in that countr.v, says that the island 

 has an area of about 18,000 square miles, and 

 that probably no country on earth of equal ex- 

 tent has so many natural elements of pros- 

 perity within its borders. The agricultural, 

 mineral and forest resources, although hereto- 

 fore somewhat neglected, are remarkably va- 

 ried and important. The wood products are 

 extremely rich, including mahogany, satin- 

 wood, lignum-vitae, lancewood, oak, pine, log- 

 wood, fustic, several species of palms, and 

 many valuable fiber-producing and medicinal 

 plants. Several fields of domestic enterprise 

 await profitable occupation, notably sawmill 

 operation and railroad construction. 



