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HARDWOOD RECORD 



It will be recalled that there as yet has been 

 no heavy fall of rain this season in the upper 

 Big Sandy region, and the splashes are made 

 with the water from springs and seepage from 

 the mountain sides. With a reasonable flow 

 of water doubtless a splash can be made every 

 twenty-four hours, which will insure the entire 

 40,000,000-foot poplar log crop of the com- 

 pany being splashed into water where it can 

 be floated to the company 's mUls. 



The second picture shown in this article is 

 a view of a small part of the cross section of 

 the river in which this vast mass of poplar 

 logs has been packed for splashing out. This 

 dump is located in a gorge of Russell Fork, 

 and the logs are piled forty feet deep, and 

 extend two-thirds of a mile up and down the 

 river above the dam. The Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Company is certainly to be congratu- 

 lated on following the courage of its convic- 

 tions in making this large investment for the 

 purpose of getting out its timber. This body 

 of timber has been passed over ever since 

 poplar manufacture began as being absoluteh' 

 an impracticable logging proposition. It re- 

 mains for the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 

 to place on the market this season nearly one- 

 third of the yellow poplar timber that exists 

 on the upper main stem of the Big Sandy 

 river. 



Prepajratious for the H. M. A. Annual 



The hoadqimrters of the Hardwood Manutac- 

 tin-ers' Association of the United States at pres- 

 rnt is about the busiest spot on earth. With an 

 augmented force in the offlces of Secretary 

 Lewis Doster, his executive clerk, N. L. Heaton, 

 is rushed getting out circular matter in regard 

 to the annual convention to be held in the 

 Siuton Hotel, Cincinnati, February 1, 2 and 3. 

 When it is considered that the plan of the con- 

 vention embraops the sending out of invitations 

 to ten thousand consumers of hardwoods, it will 

 be readily apparent that a giant task has been 

 undertaken. It is the intention of the princi- 

 pals in the association to make this the greatest 

 ccnvention in lumber history. 



Outside the regular discussions of the con- 

 vention there will be a moving picture show 

 demonstrating forest operations from the felling 

 of the tree to its manufacture into finished lum- 

 ber. The opening of the big splash dam of the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company on the Big 

 Sandy river, when over ten thousand logs were 

 moved, will also be shown. There will also be 

 interesting stereopticon views of forest and mill 

 operations and lectures by forest experts. 



A novel enterprise will be the publication of 

 a daily paper by Hardwood Record, giving full 

 information of all the proceedings up to the 

 minute of going to press. These will be dis- 

 tributed to all attending the convention, and, 

 besides, many copies will be mailed, which will 

 carry the news of the convention to thousands 

 of lumbermen in various parts of the country 

 who are unable to attend. 



Secretary Doster is now making an extended 

 trip through the South. 



The association is sending out a circular to 

 the consuming manufacturers of hardwood lum- 

 ber, extending to them an invitation to attend 

 the forthcoming annual meeting. The letter is 

 signed by R. H. Vansant, chairman of the Execu- 

 tive Grading Commission, and in it he states 

 that there will be a meeting of this commission 

 a few days before the annual, to meet delegates 

 from organizations of consumers, when the rules 

 now in force will be gone over and suggestions 

 of such changes as may be considered necessary 

 to make the rules Just to both the consumer 

 and the manufacturer will be received. On Mon- 

 day, .lanuary 31, will be held a meeting of the 

 Executive Grading Commission to consider the 

 changes that have been proposed. It is said that 

 the plan has met with favorable consideration 

 in a number of cases, and a large attendance of 

 consumers is anticipated. 



Important Milwaukee Lumber Change 



G. JI. JIaxson, until recently secretary of the 

 Cooper & Maxson Lumber Company, the well- 

 known wholesale hardwood house of Milwaukee, 

 has retired from that concern, and organized 

 the Maxson Lumber Company with headquarters 

 at Milwaukee, Wis. The company has a capital 

 stock of .foO.OOO and is located at 221 Grand 

 avenue. Mr. Maxson is the head of the new 

 concern, and while it will handle a full line of 

 lumber, it will make hardwoods a specialty. In- 

 corporation papers will soon be completed and 

 the company fully launched. 



The Cooper & Maxson Lumber Company under 

 the direction of W. E. Cooper, president and 

 treasurer, will continue in the general wholesale 

 lumber trade as in the past. 



.SECTION' OF nr.MI' CONTAIXING 3(1.000 LARGE VIRGIN FOREST YELLOW POPLAR STICKS RANGING IN LENGTH FROM 12 To 

 3S FEET, SCALING 27,000,000 FEET OF AN AVERAGE DIAMETER OF 25 INCHES. CLOSELY PILED IN GORGE OF RUSSELL 

 FORK, BIG SANDY RIVER ; PROPERTY OF YELLOW POPLAR LUMBER COMPANY, COAL GROVE, OHIO. 



