HARDWOOD RECORD 



COIINKU 111-' TIIK LU 

 CONNERS 



In the North Carolina Country. 



MRliU VAIUl AT TOMOTI.A. 



CASCADE, CKOSSED BY I.DGtil.VG KOAli. 



LOGGING RAILROAD BRIDGE ACROSS CREEK NEAR TOMOTI.A. 



and henilook are sold almost exclusively to 

 retail yards, with whieli the company has a trade 

 I'idin Boston to Cim-innati. Beyond this from 

 •!ii lo 1.1 ]ier cent of the coiiiiiany's oak and 

 |i"|ihir is iiKirkcteil al.>road in such principal 

 rrade centers as Liverpool, London, Hamburg 

 and Botterdam. So carefully has the sales 

 department been conducted that its total losses 

 froiii bad debts during the past five years have 

 amounfcd to less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 

 Incidentally every detail of operation of 

 the Wood enterprises is handled by machinery, 

 and manual labor is minimized wherever pos- 

 sible. Steam skiddeis and log loaders, logging 

 engines, log turning devices, log haul-ups, live 

 rolls and all steam mechanism that can be 

 employed is utilized to economize on the 

 uumlier of men em]iloyed. All the company's 

 mills are cciuijipid with lath and cut-up ma- 

 chinery, where all Woods and sawmill waste 

 is utilized. The bark from the oaks, chest- 

 nut and hemlock is all carefully peeled and 

 snld to tanners in the vicinity of the plants. 

 The refuse chestnut wood is harvested and 

 sidd to tannic acid plants, and the tie timber 

 is also taken out and converted into railway 

 ties. Waste timber in the Wood operations 

 is practically nil. Tlie several structures, local 

 office buildings, lioarding houses, store build- 

 ings and houses for the employees, are cheaply 

 Ijut substantially built of cull himl>er and 

 building pa]:ier. Neither on the exterior nor 

 interior ot any of these structures is seen 

 eitlu'r the result of the planing machine or 

 p:iinter's brush. They may be called crude, 

 but they answer the purpose and are cheap. 

 111! the whole, it is my opinion that from the 

 |riiint of cost in equipment and operation the 

 K. K. Wood lumber enterprises are the peer 

 of any in the United States. 



Personnel. 



In eoniiectiou with this article it is per- 

 tinent that something be said concerning the 

 princi|)als and subordinates of the E. E. Wood 

 l,und;er Company and the Moutvale Lumlier 

 ( 'ompauN'. 



KoBERT E. Wood. 



The liiipgraphical sketch giving ilr. 

 Wood 's commercial history presented in the 

 last issue of the H.'^rdwood Record covered 

 his career quite fully. Little need be added 

 save that he is a careful, painstaking man, 

 thoroughly t'-aiued in his calling of timber 

 ex|iert and lundier manufacturer. He is the 

 eiiiliodimeut of dynamic force. His woodsmen 

 tell me that in cruising he can tire out the 

 huskiest landlooker in his employ. He is in- 

 ureil to hardships and spends a great portion 

 of his time in looking timber properties. He 

 has a reputation for fairness in all his trans- 

 actions. The fact that has most impressed 

 itself npon me during my visits to his various 

 operations and in my talks with his subordi- 

 nates has been the loyal friendship mani- 

 fested by every employe. From woods fore- 

 man to "tote boy" I gathered expression of 

 fidelity to the "boss." By them he is looked 

 upon as an exacting but kindly employer, and 

 everyone loves iiini. 



