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Seeks Plain White Oak 



Amsterdam^ Holland, April 26. — Editor Hahd- 

 wooD Recokd: We are seelsing a really good and 

 reliable connection for plain-sawn white oals. 

 West Virginia or Ohio in quality, soft and mel- 



low, closely grained, in thiclcness of %" to 2", 

 for which we are prepared to issue some nice 

 orders. This stock is principally used for furni- 

 ture making, and we shall be pleased to place 

 trial orders with an important concern able to 

 ship regularly, and who is willing to give us the 



sole agency for this territory. — 



The above commnnioation is from a leading 

 and responsible AiiLsterdam house ; any one in- 

 terested can have the address by addressing 

 the Record. — Kditoe. 



Round About the Southern HardWood Country 



A Blow to Forest Conservation 



Forest conservation at the hands of the in- 

 dividual has recently had another hard blow 

 in the mountain country. Two weeks ago, just 

 in the budding season, fifteen thousand acres 

 of young poplar and oak growth, belonging to 

 the Little River Lumber Company, near Town- 

 send, Tenn., which Manager W. B. Townsend 

 has carefully conserved for ten j'ears, veas in- 

 vaded by fire. For practically two weeks the 

 fire burned furiously, destroying not only 

 standing timber but the undergrowth on the 

 entire fifteen thousand acres, which Mr. Town- 

 send has been protecting as an example of 

 what could be accomplished by forest conser- 

 vation, was wiped out. Every vestige of life, 

 all the undergrowth, leaf mould and even the 

 soil itself in many instances has been de- 

 stroyed. 



The calamity is a terrible blow to those 

 either teaching or practicing forest conserva- 

 tion in the mountain country. Mr. Townsend 

 believes there is no hope in the future for 

 forest conservation in his region unless some 

 means can be devised to prevent the starting 

 of fires. 



Only by using his entire force day and 

 night in fighting the fire did Mr. Townsend 



succeed in protecting his immediate logging 

 country. It is discouraging indeed that his 

 splendid start towards the regeneration of his 

 cut-over lands has come to naught. 



This disaster should be a forcible lesson to 

 legislative bodies of the states and such strin- 

 gent fire laws should be enacted, and such 

 careful ranging of danger points be estab- 

 lished, as to preclude the possibility of such 

 devastation anywhere. 



The last seven or eight months have seen 

 particularly dry weather in the mountain coun- 

 try, and the whole region is a veritable tinder- 

 box. 

 New Mill Tallahatchie Lumber Company 



The Tallahatchie Lumber Company, of 

 Philipp, Miss., has recently put its new band 

 mill in operation. The outfit is a complete 

 12-ineh mill made by Pratt Bros., and while 

 only just started and not yet fully in running 

 condition, is making fine lumber and at a 

 good speed. The mill is also equipped with a 

 12-inch band resaw, one of the heaviest ma- 

 chines of its kind built. In a separate build- 

 ing, connected with the mill by suitable trans- 

 fers, the low-grade lumber and slabs are 

 worked up into dimension stock and veneer 

 flitches. 



The company draws its timber from a tract 

 of about 14,000 acres, which with several thou- 

 sands additional acres in the vicinity will fur- 

 nish timber enough for a twenty-year run. 

 This operation is located in the heart of one 

 of the finest hardwood sections of Mississippi, 

 and is fully equipped with the most modern 

 logging tools, with patent skidder and loader 

 and the latest improved form of ground 

 skidder. 



After all of the merchantable timber is re- 

 moved from the land, the logging crews are 

 followed by a portable cross-tie mill, which 

 works up the small trees into ties which are 

 treated with creosote. In this way no timber 

 of any value whatever is wasted or left stand- 

 ing, and as fast as the logging is completed 

 the land is put under cultivation. Arrange- 

 ments are now being made to put the agricul- 

 tural end of the business in charge of a grad- 

 uate of the Mississippi Agricultural College. 

 The Barr-Holaday Lumber Company 



The Barr-Holaday Lumber Company, at 

 Isola, Mis.s., is cleaning up its land in this 

 same way. By means of wagons and a stand- 

 ard gauge logging road all the merchantable 

 timber is brought into the mill for manufac- 

 ture. The company is producing some 6,000,- 



MODEL NEW MILL TALLAHATCHIE LUMBER CO., PillLirr, MISS. 



