HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Wood Methods. 



One feature alout the Wood tiiiilicr linlil- 

 ings is especially comniendabk'. Mr. Wood 

 has apparently sought to l.iiy timber on 

 streams where it has not lie< n pillaged and 

 where the growth is of a tliiifty eharactcr 

 and best fitted for thi' manntact\ne of high 

 class lumber. The thing particularly notice 

 able about the lumber operations of his com- 

 panies is a ma.ximum of efficiency with a 

 minimum of cost. There is no concein in the 

 hardwood imlustry tliat makes and cares f(0- 

 its lumber any better than the Wood institu- 

 tions, and there is none that iigures its cost 

 of equipment and production any (die.'qier. 

 At all times mills and logging equipment 

 seem to be regarded as tempo:arv affairs 

 and they are built just substantially enough 

 to complete the clearing of the forest without 

 having a mass of valueless railroad and saw- 

 mill machinery to charge to profit and loss 

 when the operation is ended. Good housi'- 

 keeping marks every detail of all the oprrn- 

 tious; everything is orderly, everything is 

 systematic. Kach detail of operations is 

 carefully analyzed and goes forward to tlu' 

 head office at Baltimore in the form of daily 

 reports. A labor report shows the daily cost 

 of ski<lding, cutting, tramming, tram building, 

 sawing and piling, loading dry lumber, build- 

 ing construction and planing mill work, while 

 a second mill report shows the numl. er ot 

 hours run, the nuuiljcr of men on (bity and 

 their cost in the cutting, skiilding, traniiiiiii^, 

 sawing and piling, building and repairing 

 trams, loading mill orders, mill rejiairs and 

 planing mill work, all of which is totallnl. 

 The same sheet shows the log scale of various 

 kinds of lumber; it shows the shipments of 

 dry rough lumber, of bill luuilicr and diessed 

 lumber; it shows the total of dry lumber for 

 shipment; it shows store sabs. It further 

 exhibits the mill cuts by thicknesses ami 

 grades of the various kiiuls of lumber and 

 the totals of eacdi kind and thickness in stoi-k. 

 These daily reports go into every detail, even 

 including the infinitesimal items of hnnlci 

 delivereil for local building operations, mill 

 culls and tram roads; and shows in final, the 

 total daily cost per thousand feet of lumber 

 production delivered ready for sliipinent. .\o 

 less complete is the statistical work by means 

 of which cost and profit are figured at the 

 general offices of the company at Baltimore. 

 Here every item of sales is as carefully an- 

 alyzed as is its cost of production. It is a 

 comprehensive and accurate system of laisi- 

 ness and reflects credit on both Mr. Wood 

 and his efficient corps of subordinates. 



To the marketing of lumber the principals 

 have given a most analytic study. In oak 

 lumber the company caters to the furniture 

 and car trade very largely. Its basswood, ot 

 which it has a eonsiderai)le quantity, is sold 

 chiefly to the picture frame manufacturers. 

 The chestnut goes to the coffin making, house 

 finishing and furniture trade. The poplar is 

 sold direct to the automobile maker, the 

 wagon maker, the furniture trade and to re- 

 tail lumber yards; the white and yellow pine 



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In the Timber Operations. 

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