HARDWOOD RECORD 



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rapid and hardy growth, and the acreage required 

 Inr the aoDual production of any given quantity. 

 It has been determined l)y the wheel manu- 

 facturers to call a special convention of all in- 

 terested not only in preserviug Ijut increasing 

 the present supply of hickory, and to adopt some 

 plan that in the course of time may insure a 

 larger source of supply nearer to their doors. 

 This meeting will convene at the International 

 Hotel. Niagara Kalis, X. Y., on Friday. .luly l.'J. 

 John W. Herron. Jr., of Cincinnati, chairman 

 of the forestry committee of the Western Wheel 

 Manufacturers, has the meeting in charge, and 

 has asked representatives of the wagon and car- 

 riage industries and spoke, rim and gear makers 

 to be jjreseut, as well as all the wheel manufac- 

 turers of the country. The meeting will doubt- 

 less be pregnant in results, and if such a desid- 

 eratum be possible will probably arrive at some 

 practical solution of the hickory problem. In a 

 letter to the ILiitDwoon UKi'oiti) Mr. llerron sug- 

 gests that the subject under discussion should be 

 of manifest interest to producers of hickory 

 dimension stock, and he would be pleased to 

 have them present at this conference. 



Building Operations for June. 



Tlie building uin'ralions of the country con- 

 tinue in great volume, and in the aggregate are 

 increasing over the showing made in lin.i.j, which 

 was a remarkable year In construction. The 

 -Vmerlcan Contractor of Chicago shows the fol- 

 lowing tabulated report, city by city, for the 

 month. One of the most gratifying features o£ 

 this report is the general distribution of the 

 gains, thus demonstrating prosperity in all parts 

 of the country. While Chicago shows a loss of 

 flfteen per cent, it must be remembered that the 

 operations of June. IDOij, were enormous. 



June, June. Per Per 



l!Ki6. IIXLT. ceut cent 



City — cost. cost. gfiin. loss. 



.Vtlaiita .$(i7.-).0T2 .f:!,S4,7!)T 140 



Baltimore l.ii.'i4.ooo s.-)l.oiin 2o 



Birmingliam .... 1.34.;}o.'> 



Briilgepiirt i'>S.:l"l> H!),03t «5 



Buffalo I.n:i2.(ii.' iMi«.:i7ii 14 



Chicago Ci.4n2..".00 7,710..'i20 .. 15 



Cincinnati .StIi.OINJ l!:!,').7«0 XJ 



Davcniiort S4.(]ri!) 79.807 (B 



Dallas 6.31.777 433,980 43 



Denver 1.246,907 761,430 63 



lies Moines 112.080 114,300 .. 11 



Detroit OOS.son 9.'i2.40O 4 



Duliitli 40'. I. i !.-).-> 137.505 los 



Evalisvillc ;i7.iisii 35,720 170 



Grand Rapiils . . . 244.003 l.)0.S35 02 



Harrist.urg 109,105 229.310 .. 13 



Harttord 298.025 273.710 9 



Kansas City 1.453.140 1.021.94o 41 



Knuxville 111.630 76.07<l 45 



Louisville 365,060 196.404 s.") 



Los .\ngeles 2..371.02O 1.. 525,870 .55 



Milwaukee 1.445,325 1.190.523 IS 



Minneapolis 886,915 .577,8.30 19 



Memphis .590.044 :l.S8.197 55 



Mobile 20S.O115 5s,:;45 300 



Nashville 239.047 198.521 20 



Newark 1.18.5,9,50 1,187.218 



Xew Orleans 616.1.59 .508.295 21 



Brooklyn 7.771.05s 0.773.7s] 1! 



Bronx 2. 830. .520 4..5.89.950 



.Vlteratiun 78.215 .57, .325 .. 38 



New York 10.0so.;:9:: 11.421. 050 



Omaha .309,025 277..50II .33 



Philadelphia 3.4.84.060 4. .507.520 23 



I'aterson 1.5H.313 220.4O7 . . 29 



St. l.ouis 3. OKI, 008 2.163. 148 85 



St. Paul soo.ooi 1. 310.010 .. 39 



S.vracu.sc 451.245 201.3.35 72 



Salt Lake City. .. 115.310 152.4.80 .. 23 



Topeka 105. .5.54 .S8.72o IS 



Toledo 4,50.985 225.105 100 



Wllkesbarre .... 203. (i53 312. 74o . . 14 



Tacoma 263.310 121.0:io 1 19 



Washington 1.13S.647 1.301,909 17 



New Plans of Mississippi Operators. 



The Cbicago-Mississipiii Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany, of which J. A. Lewis Is president, and 

 whose headquarters are In the First National 



Hank building. Chicago, has been conducting a 

 hardwood lumber operation at Napanee, Miss,, 

 for several years, but has recently made some 

 important changes iu its operating jdans. This 

 compan.v lias 5,000 acres of oak, gum, cotton- 

 wood and other woods in Washington county, 

 Mississippi, about fifteen miles southeast of 

 Greenville, and has been manufacturing its lum- 

 ber at its plant at Napanee. For economic rea- 

 sons it has concluded to change the seat of 

 sawmill operations to Greenville, Miss., and has 

 leased, with the privilege of purdiase, the mod- 

 ern single band sawmill and yards of the I'lant- 

 ers' Lumber Company there, where tlie limber 

 will be sawn in future. 



J. L. Strickland, formerly vice president and 

 general manager of tlie Planters' Lumber Com- 

 pan.v, becomes general manager of the new deal, 

 and hereafter will have charge of the logging, 

 sawmilUng and marketing of the hardwood 



J. L. .STRICKLAND, <;itEl':X VILI.IC. MISS. 



product. The company will produce about 

 33,000 feet of hardwoods daily, and has com- 

 pleted its logging plans, so that the mill will be 

 fully stocked every day of the year. The logs 

 will be transported to Greenville over a branch 

 of the Y'azoo & .Mississippi Valley railroad. Mr. 

 Strickland has made a fine record iu his man- 

 agement of Planters' Lumber (.'orapany. and with 

 his thorough familiarity with Mississippi liard- 

 woods and lumber conditions should do himself 

 and the Chlcago-.'illssissippi Lund & Lumber 

 Company great credit in this new undertaking. 



A Magnificent Work. 

 American Woods is the title of a uniijue w-ork 

 of wliich Itomeyn B. Hough. B. A.. Lowville, 

 N. \'., Is author and publisher. It possesses 

 unusual interest to lumbermen and others ap- 

 preciative of American woods and the trees 

 which produce them. It treats of the various 

 kinds of native and naturalized trees of the 

 United States and Canada, and is illustrated by 

 actual specimens of their woods. These illus- 

 trations are in the form of thin sections, about 

 2x'i inches in size and l-lOO of an inch thick, 

 showing transverse, radial and tangential views 

 of the grain — in the language of lumbermen, 

 cross, quarter and slab cuts. They represent 

 high art In wood cutting and are produced by a 

 proce.ss invented by Mr. Hough himself. No one 

 who has not seen tliem can form an adequate 

 conception of their beauty and interest. Tliey 

 are mounted in separable pages, to facilitate com- 

 parison and study, and the accompanying text 

 gives full informatiou iu regard to the distribu- 

 tion and botanical classification of the various 

 trees, their ph.vsical properties, and the uses of 

 their woods. The pages containing specimens 



and text fit into an ingenious book-like cover, 

 and can lie kept on a library shelf or table like 

 an ordinary volume. 



The w'ork Is Issued in parts, each covering 

 twent.v-flve species, and It is the author's inten- 

 tion to cover all the Important woods of the 

 United States and Canada in a series of fifteen 

 volumes. Ten have already been issued, and the 

 price |,1;.5 or If7..50 the volume, according to style 

 of binding) is very moderate for so instructive 

 and valuable a book. 



lietailed information and specimen pages may 

 be obtained without cost by addressing the 

 author, and anyone who will call at the office 

 of the H.^RDvvoriD Hicconn may at any time ex- 

 amine the copies which have recentlj^ been added 

 to its library. Such a review will well repay a 

 visit for that specific purpose. 



United States 'Veneer Company. 



The United States Veneer Company, incor- 

 porated recently at Winston-Salem, N. C. 

 will attempt a conspicuous place in the veneer 

 world as the owner of the United States and 

 foreign patents on a new and improved ro- 

 tary veneer slicing machine. The machine 

 was invented by C. R. Traxler and built by 

 the United Engineering & Foundry Company, 

 of PitLsburg. Pa., at its branch plant at 

 Youngstown, O. It is the largest woodworking 

 machine in the world and It Is said that it 

 has a capacity of over 100,000 feet of veneer 

 l)er ten-hour day. It will produce veneer of 

 any thickne.ss, and as thin as 1/140 of an inch. 

 The wheel is 35 feft in diameter, the main 

 shaft 18 feet 10 inches in length. This im- 

 mense rotar.v disc is propelled by a 120-horse- 

 power twin engine. 



Although of such gigantic proportions the 

 machine is comparatively simple in construc- 

 tion, and it is claimed runs with great ease. 

 By the use of a rotar.v disc or carriage 

 equipped with steam-heated staylogs, tlie 

 veneer blocks are held at a uniform tempera- 

 ture while being sliced. The blocks are first 

 cut to the required length, boiled, and then 

 automatically conveyed to the staylogs. The 

 log is held in place by steam chucks and as 

 the wheel revolves is forced against a sta- 

 tionary knife 10 feet S inches long, set to cut 

 the veneer the required thickness. 



The officers of the United States Veneer 

 Company are: E. H. Hanes, president: "W. P. 

 Hill, vice-president; W. E. Dalton. secretar.v 

 and treasurer, and C. R. Traxler. the inventor 

 of this great machine, manager. The capital 

 stock is J150.000. of which amount $25,000 is 

 preferred stock, wliich the concern is pre- 

 paring to increase within a short time to 

 $60,000, and $125,000 common stock. 



New Oak Flooring Plant in Operation. 



Tlie uiik flooring plant of the Fenn Brothers 

 Company, recently erected at Memphis, is 

 now in full operation, producing a high-class 

 product in quartered white, ciuartered red. 

 plain white and plain red oak. The flooring is 

 hollow-backed, bored, end-matched and pol- 

 ished. The operation of the institution is 

 under the superintendence of W. Goodjohn. an 

 experienced operator in high-class woodwork. 

 The principals of the Fenn Brothers Company 

 are .A. A. Fenn and R. H. Fenn of the Broad- 

 way Manufacturing Compan.v. veteran pro- 

 ducers of doors lAiid interior finish, at Leaven- 

 worth. Kan., together witli W. C. Fenn, who 

 is in direct cliarge of the Memphis flooring 

 plant. 



The factory is equipped with Berlin floor- 

 ing machines and Whitney scrapers. Almost 

 at the very start of this enterprise the owners 

 tiiid that they must needs largely increase 

 their output to keep pace with the demand 

 for flooring, and therefore contemplate im- 

 mediately qu.adiupling the size of the factory. 

 The Morton moist air dry kiln system which 

 they have installed is a very large one. and 



