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HARDWOOD RECORD 



"Round About the Southern HardWood Country 



At C. L. Willey's Memphis Plant 

 Where logs are freighted on cars of the 

 regular flat or gondola pattern, it seems al- 

 most impossible to handle them in an eco- 

 nomical manner except by the use of some 

 form of derrick or swinging crane. As it is 

 not practical to use the regulation slip and 

 endless chain, many of the hardwood mills are 

 using a system that saves breaking bulk until 

 it can be done on the log deck. 



At the big Memphis plant of C. L. Willey 

 a Browning self-propelling crane not only un- 

 loads cars of logs that are for the veneer 

 mill, but sorts out the logs and loads for the 

 luill only those intended for sawing, setting 

 out the veneer logs rapidly and convenient to 

 the boiling vats. In addition to this the ma- 

 chine accomplishes all the yard switching and 

 spotting of cars to the loading platforms. 



"When the ears are loaded entirely with saw 

 logs, spotting them at the mill in reach of 

 the cable is all that is done, as they are hauled 

 into the mill and the load rolled off. From 

 woods to log deck without any further han- 

 dling is getting pretty close to economical 

 lines in timber operations. The switch back 

 to clear the car after being unloaded is shown 

 in one of the accompanying illustrations, the 

 car running by gravity. 



Oak stock for export is air dried thoroughly, 

 the piling sticks between each layer of boards 

 being nailed to two strips, forming a frame 

 which is light and easily moved, yet strong 

 enough to keep the lumber in good shape. 

 The piling method is illustrated in one of the 

 halftones herewith. End-piling hastens the 

 ilryiug of stock, not only by the freer circula- 

 tion of air, but from the fact that when the 

 moisture is drawn from lumber in this way 

 the stock is left in better shape and is much 

 less liable to stain than when dried by other 

 means. These racks for drying lumber have 

 i.nly recently been installed at the Willey 

 plant. J. D. Laskey, sales manager of the 

 operation, states that results from their use 

 are entireh' satisfactory. 



The C. L. Willey headquarters are at Chi- 

 cago, where a modern factory and extensive 

 yards at 2558 South Eobey street are main- 

 tained. Mr. Willey is known all over this 

 country, as well as extensively abroad, as the 

 most important producer of high-class foreign 

 :'nd domestic cabinet woods and veneers in 

 the United States. He also enjoys the dis- 

 cinction of operating the largest veneer plant 

 m the world. 



Where Cottonwood Is King 

 To anyone acquainted with the southern 



Mississippi valley, the sight of a Cottonwood 

 board brings to mind Arkansas City. Con- 

 versely, to mention Arkansas City, if lumber is 

 imder consideration, one naturally thinks of 

 Cottonwood. 



One of the most interesting sights at Ar- 

 kansas City is a tow boat of the Kimball- 

 Lacey Lumber Company landing a tow of 

 4,000,000 feet of lumber. When the river 

 is high these tows are brought in safely and 

 landed as high and close to the levee as pos- 

 sible. When the river is low, however, many 

 of the logs are left hung on the bank, high 

 and dry, to wait for another rise, or they may 

 'le pulled off and loaded at considerable addi- 

 i ional expense. 



At present the Kimball-Lacey Lumber Com- 

 jiany has sawed up the greater part of the tow 

 >hown in the illustration, and about all there 

 i" left are the few logs shown in the other pic- 

 ture, hung on the bank of the river. 



This company has a band and band resaw 

 mill, with supplementary dimension band saw 

 in the end of the mill. Although the manu- 

 facture of Cottonwood is more or less wasteful 

 under ordinary methods, the Kimball-Lacey 

 company has solved the problem to a large 

 extent, and the offal from the mill is small. 

 'lotwithstanding the character of the timber. 







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