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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sawed oak reneers. W. R. Drinkard, who for 

 several years served as superintendent of llie 

 Sanders & Egbert plant at Goshen, Ind., is 

 one of the principals in the new concern. 

 The plant will iiave two saws and will be 

 equipped with an electric motor drive. It is 

 expected that it will be in operation by 

 May 1. 



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Churcla & Hooker have established a veneer 

 factory at Bradford, Vt. 



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C. T. Jarrell of B. C. Jarrell & Co., Hum- 

 boldt, Tenn., attended the recent veneer meet- 

 ing at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago. Mr. Jar- 

 rell has been in the veneer business about 

 thirty years and is now an extensive manu- 

 facturer of rotary veneers, though specializ- 

 ing to a great extent in fruit packages. 



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The Goshen Veneer Company of Goshen, 

 Ind., is meeting with much success and rep.-Tts 

 business active. This company has been in 

 steady operation without loss of a single day 

 since January, 1906, when it began running 

 its present modern plant. New equipment has 

 lately been installed in the company's fac- 

 tory, so that it has now a most up-to-date 

 plant, employing over 100 men. 



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The St. Louis Basket & Box Company, of 

 St. Louis, Mo., recently increased its capital 

 stock to $500,000. It is building a large addi- 

 tion to its factory, 127 feet by 60 feet, and 

 four stories high. This structure will be 

 equipped with the latest appliances for the 

 manufacture of veneers, panels, etc. The 

 company also contemplates buying additional 

 timber lands, and is making extensive plans 

 for taking care of its constantly growing 



business. 



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The "Western Veneer & Box Company, large 

 producer of spruce and cottonwood veneers, 

 at Edmonds, Wash., contemplates improve- 

 ments in its miU for the manufacture of splint 

 and veneer baskets, drums, spice barrels and 



a wide range of articles in the veneer line. 

 The company has a capacity of about three 

 cars a week, and has enough orders on its 



books to run for some time. 



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Manager Doty of the veneer department of 

 the Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Com- 

 pany of CJladstone, Mich., was in Chicago on 

 business a few days ago. 



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A. D. Wilcox, formerly with the Chicago 

 branch of the Holland Veneer Company, which 

 is now in the hands of receivers, has been on 

 an extensive trip to the principal automobile 

 manufacturing cities, soliciting orders for 

 automobile dashboards. He is reported to 

 have booked a large volume of business, which 

 will be taken care of by the new concern of 

 which Mr. Wilcox will be the head. 

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C. E. Curtis & Brother, who do a veneer 

 panel business at 1165 North Elizabeth ave- 

 nue, Chicago, will move May 1 to their new 

 shop at Western avenue and Fourteenth street, 

 where they will have more commodious quar- 

 ters and will be better fitted than ever to take 

 care of the many orders which they have con- 

 stantly on hand. 



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Grand Eapids veneer concerns report busi- 

 ness active, even though the furniture manu- 

 facturers are not getting the trade they ex- 

 pected. Secretary McCoy of the Rice Veneer 

 & Lumber Company, reports that the company 

 is getting its usual business. The Henry S. 

 Holden Veneer Company is also having a 

 good trade. The Holden company received 



a car of fine birdseye maple April 6. 

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The Van Dyck Panel Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, with a capital of $100,000, was recently 



organized to operate at New York City. 



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A London trade journal reports au aston- 

 ishing price recently paid for a mahogany log 

 in the Liverpool market. The log contained 

 2,243 superficial feet and was sold at the 

 yards of the Edward Chaloner Company for 

 $6,207. 



Annual Report Vhilippine Forester 



George P. Ahern, director of forestry in 

 the Philippine Islands, has recently sub- 

 mitted a report of the work of the year 

 1909 which has progressed rapidly and satis- 

 factorily, in accordance with the program 

 laid down at the beginning of the fiscal 

 year. Field work shows results of the 

 labors of men much interested in the work, 

 the majority of whom have had from three 

 to eight years service in the Philippine 

 forests. Rapid work in the Philippines is 

 difficult to attain owing to the great num- 

 ber of comparatively unknown tree species, 

 lack of transportation and of reliable data. 

 At least one year's experience is necessary 

 to efficient service. 



The appropriation allotted to the bureau 

 during the past few years has been insuf- 

 ficient to properly care for the vast prop- 

 erty committed to its charge. The virgin 



forest area of the island comprises ap- 

 proximately -10,000 square miles, or one- 

 third of the total area. Besides this there 

 is estimated to be 20,000 square miles of 

 second growth timber, which will yield con- 

 siderable quantities of small size lumber 

 and firewood. With an appropriation com- 

 mensurate with the work to be done, a suf- 

 ficent force of forest officers could be em- 

 ployed, and many evils thus eradicated 

 which now are a source of considerable loss 

 to the service. Also many extensive im- 

 provements could be introduced, wdth a 

 view to more intensive and remunerative 

 management of the forests. An additional 

 appropriation of approximately $10,000 has 

 been granted for special work in two of 

 the provinces. It is the aim of the bureau 

 to extend the area of intensive manage- 

 ment as means are provided and men are 



trained. With this view in mind more than 

 cne-half of this appropriation has been 

 allowed for educational work in the high 

 schools. 



The field force of the division of adminis- 

 tration consists of four foresters, nine head 

 rangers, two assistant raugers, and five 

 temporary rangers; a small force to dis- 

 tribute over 60,000 square miles. This di- 

 vision is charged with the supervision of 

 tue work of conservation of forest re- 

 sources. 



All applications for licenses to gather 

 forest products must be 0. K, 'd by a for- 

 est officer of this division. Many licenses 

 take out a very small quantity of forest 

 products, or none at all, during the year. 

 Three hundred and seventeen cutting areas 

 were inspected hy forest oflicers during the 

 past year, especial attention being paid to 

 the larger operators. Seven areas where 

 these large operations are being conducted 

 were studied in detail and reports and maps 

 prepared. Approxiznately 3,000 kilometers 

 of trail notes were taken by the officers of 

 this division on a trip through regions 

 which had not been previously mapped. 

 Eight hundred botanical specimens were 

 selected and sent to Manila by members. 

 Fourteen hundred and eighty-eight parcels 

 of land for sale or homestead were in- 

 spected. 



In addition to this vast araouut of work 

 renewed efforts were made to suppress all 

 illegal operations in the forests, and as a 

 result the records show considerable suc- 

 cess, complaints having been filed against 

 almost two hundred persons, for prosecu- 

 tion under Section 25 of the Forest Act. 



The work toward the creation of com- 

 munal forests has gone rapidly forward, a 

 circular from the office of the chief forester 

 inviting the attention of municipal officials 

 to the communal forest act having been pro- 

 ductive of extensive results. In conse- 

 quence almost one hundred municipalities 

 have made application for communal for- 

 ests. The requests are forwarded to the 

 forest officers, who are instructed to ex- 

 amine the tracts in question and report oq 

 sam_e. During the past year twenty-one 

 communal forests were established. 



Fire wardens are employed in the pine 

 regions of Benguet and Letanto-Bontoc, the 

 Igorrotes employed in this work take much 

 interest in suppressing fires and in awaken- 

 ing a sentiment against the indiscriminate 

 setting of fires in the pine forests and 

 vicinity. This work will be extended dur- 

 ing the coming year. 



The main work of the division of investi- 

 gation has been along the lines of inventory 

 of forest resources and educational work. 

 Commercially, the forests can be dividedl 

 roughly into two classes; the dipterocarp 

 forests, and all others. All the large stands 

 show that from 33 per cent to 89 per cent 

 of the total number of trees over 10 inches 

 in diameter is composed of members of the 

 first division, and furthermore that the 



