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Points of Interest in the New Canadian 

 Policy 



A review o£ the recent legislation pertaining 

 lo timber and timber lands in Canada brings out 

 various points of vital interest to the lumber 

 trade in general. It remains to be seen to what 

 extent the action of the Quebec government pro- 

 hibiting the export of pulpwood cut on crown 

 lands will affect American manufacturers who 

 have heretofore secured their raw material from 

 that province. In all probability the efforts of 

 these concerns will eventually result in the sut- 

 stltution of some other material which can be 

 secured in abundance in this country. On the 

 other hand, it is a fact that the paper companies 

 of the United States have thousands of miles of 

 pulpwood limits in Quebec. Nova Scotia and New- 

 Brunswick, and at present the raw material is 

 often shipped as much as 1.400 miles to the mills 

 at American industrial centers. Should the sub- 

 stitution of some other material for spruce pulp- 

 wood prove impossible, the primary motive in 

 this latest action of the Quebec government — 

 namely, to bring the manufacturer of paper to 

 that province — will have been accomplished. One 

 of the main objects of the Payne tariff law, which 

 imposed a duty of $6.10 a ton on pulpwood im- 

 ported from Canadian points which levy an export 

 duty, was to compel either the abolition or a 

 modification of these provisions. However, the 

 prohibitory policy adopted by Ontario some time 

 ago has been seconded by Quebec and New Bruns- 

 wick, and the Canadian forces evidently have the 

 better of the argument as it stands at present. 



Lumber Underwriters Report Successful 

 Year 



Now that the manufacturing trade is in the 

 midst of the dry season, when the danger from 

 fires and o£ consequent financial loss is ever 

 present, any fire insurance advice will be of 

 especial interest. A pamphlet recently issued 

 by the lumber underwriters. 60 Broadway, New 

 York City, states the various advantages accru- 

 ing to patrons of that concern. 



A list of 115 lumbermen from all parts of the 

 country, and from Canada, covers the business 

 which the lumber underwriters put through in 

 the year 1909. That is, this number of concerns 

 had losses during that year and were protected 

 by the lumber underwriters. The various in- 

 surance companies are campaigning vigorously 

 to minimize the insurance charges, and to give 

 satisfactory adjustment to fire losses to the 

 trade at large. Heretofore the insurance propo- 

 sition has not appealed particularly to lumber- 

 men, inasmuch as it appeared to be merely an 

 outlay of money which they had small chance 

 of recovering, but a closer application, by the 

 insurance companies, along the direct lumber 

 line and intelligent management of this depart- 

 ment, hits resulted in a large patronage. Lum- 

 ber Underwriters was organized and fostered by 

 the trade associations in order to correct the 

 many abuses and limit the insurance charges. 

 and the only way to secure permanent improve- 

 ments along these lines is by cooperation of the 

 individual members of the trade. 



The pamphlet states that these policies are 

 sold to lumbermen only. They are non-assess- 

 able, and are standard in form, as required by 

 New York and other states. The policies carry 

 a guarantee by 15 prominent lumber concerns 

 as underwriters, for the payment of any loss. 

 and there is a cash deposit as a protection to 

 the amount of $100,000. In addition, the policies 

 are protected by reserves maintained at 50 per 

 cent of outstanding premiums. The guarantee 

 by the underwriters over and above the security 

 of cash assets, makes the policy of unusual value 

 for fire protection. 



diana has just been purchased by E. A. Sterzik, 

 president of the Montgomery Hardwood Lumber 

 Company of that city. The tract consists of 

 eighty acres, largely white oak growth, and is 

 located south of Covington, Ind., and was ob- 

 tained from the Yerkes heirs. The timber will 

 be cut at once and shipped to Crawfordsville for 

 manufacture. The amount involved, in the 

 transaction, which was for the timber alone, 

 was about $6,000. 



The wood lot of the Indiana farmer still cuts 

 a big figure in hardwood production. 



and varied line of hardwoods is cut and manu- 

 factured with the most modern facilities, and 

 in addition private forestry, practically applied, 

 will give the students a fruitful source of study. 



An Indiana Hardwood Timber Deal 



The Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville. 

 Ind., is responsible for the statement that the 

 largest lot of virgin timber remaining in In- 



Biltmore Doings 



The Biltmore B'orest School arrived in New- 

 York, April IS, after a most enjoyable crossing. 

 The school enjoyed a trip which was not only 

 of great practical value, but in addition was of 

 a highly educational nature. 



Upon arriving in New York Dr. Schenck took 

 the entire student body directly to the New 

 York state reservations in the heart of the 

 Adirondacks, where they remained until May 5. 

 At this place they were the guests of the New 

 York State Forest Service, and as such were 

 given exceptional opportunities to study the ex- 

 tensive forest planting operations which have 

 been carried on in that vicinity for about 

 twelve years. The seedlings set out both by 

 the state service and by the Santa Clara Lum- 

 ber Company, as a private forestal enterprise, 

 have been mostly conifers, and appear now in 

 a very healthy and promising condition, aside 

 from fire damage. 



In addition to the valuable lessons in sylvi- 

 I ulture thus obtained the students were given 

 a chance to see extensive driving and splashing 

 operations which the Santa Clara company is 

 carrying on at the present time. 



On zVpril 5 the school left for Sunburst, N. C 

 where it is the guest of the Champion Fiber 

 Company of Asheville, N. C, and has use of a 

 model logging village which has never been occu- 

 pied for any length of time. The students have 

 the full run of the woods, and a chance to 

 see logging operations carried on with modern 

 apparatus, and under extremely trying condi- 

 tions. The work here is of a practical na- 

 ture, principally estimating, and instructions in 

 logging operations and in wood pulp manufacture. 

 So varied are the topographical conditions pre- 

 vailing in this country that the company is forced 

 to resort to numerous methods in its logging opera- 

 tions. The student will have a chance to see in 

 actual use the most modern steam skidders, be- 

 sides logging by flumes, log-chutes, dry board 

 chutes, dumps and cattle. 



From Sunburst the school will move to Town- 

 send. Tenn., where it will occupy quarters fur- 

 i.ished by the Little Kiver Lumber Company, and 

 here also entire run of the vast acreage of that 

 well-known concern will be afforded. The stump- 

 age on the lands of the Little River Lumber 

 Company consists in the main of hardwoods, 

 and most species found within the borders of 

 the hardwood producing section of this country 

 are there represented. Here conditions some- 

 what similar to those in North Carolina will be 

 observed, though the actual mill operations are 

 along entirely different lines. 



The school will remain at Townsend until 

 August 15. and will then leave for Cadillac, 

 Mich., where arrangements have been made to 

 give the student body every opportunity for 

 study of the most modern logging and milling 

 operations in the country. Here they will be 

 amply provided with all facilities for study and 

 tt-ill be well housed and well fed at a minimum 

 cost. The opportunities presented in these quar- 

 ters are without limit. 



Further arrangements have been made to leave 

 Cadillac about the 15th of October, when Dr. 

 Schenck will take his charges to the lands of 

 the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 

 Sardis, Miss., where they will bo quartered until 

 Christmas of next year. Here also an extensive 



New Statement of Market Conditions 

 The Hardwood Manufacturers' .\ssociation of 

 the United States, through its secretary, Lewis 

 Doster, has issued, under date of May 16, a new 

 statement covering current market conditions. 

 The list shows a new division of widths in 

 wide poplar under prevailing prices now- being 

 obtained ; a new range of prices for drop siding 

 and dimension strips in line with the specifica- 

 tions for the various grades of these items, and 

 it shows an increase in value of about two dol- 

 lars on all grades of plain white and red oak, 

 and readjustment in quartered red oak values. 

 It shows an increase in firsts and seconds and 

 No. 1 common chestnut of two dollars ; the in- 

 sertion of a price on No. 1 common sound wormy 

 and .No. 2 common ; it shows an increase in the 

 value of rough gum from one and a halt to 

 two dollars a thousand for No. 1 common red and 

 Ijetter. with no change in dressed stock. In oak 

 dimension timbers the list shows a slight increase 

 in oak car material : on cottonwood an increase 

 of three dollars per thousand is indicated in wide 

 stock, and some increase in the value of wide 

 poplar boxboards and car sign boards. 



Veneer in China Closets. 



A. 3. Johnson & Sons, furniture manufacturers 

 of Chicago, employ a process in the manufacture 

 of curved facings for china-closets embodying 

 features not in common with the usual methods 

 in vogue, and which undoubtedly is a step in 

 advance in this line. By this process, bending of 

 such parts is entirely obviated, and the elimina- 

 tion of warping and a more uniform color of 

 material are the acruing advantages. 



In applying the common process, the usual sys- 

 tem of gluing up, fitting and bending is resorted 

 to. Various common woods are used for the core, 

 and the cross-banding and veneer are invariably 

 oak or mahogany, the same being also true in the 

 .Johnson method. 



The initial step employed by the latter con- 

 cern is that of cutting out squares from solid 

 oak or mahogany, the sizes governed by the 

 dimensions of the glass. These discs are cut 

 from clear lumber dressed to Ts inch thickness 

 and are stacked in readiness for the next step. 

 Before sawing out, the stuff must be glued up in 

 the form of blocks of the required thickness, a 

 process comparatively simple in itself, which are 

 then thoroughly dried and set up, and marked 

 according to the sweep to which they will be 

 band-sawed. The back, or solid section thus pro- 

 duced, is now more or less in a rough form and 

 must be surfaced down and cleaned before apply- 

 ing the veneer. 



Oak and mahogany are always used for this 

 purpose, and are applied without any noticeable 

 difficulty. The curve or sweep is not abrupt 

 enough to necessitate especial processes or appli- 

 ances, and after gluing up the coat is hydraulic- 

 ally pressed. 



One point in this connection, which merits 

 special mention, is the fact that the veneer is 

 cross-banded on the solid back ; that is, the 

 grain is set at right angles to that of the core. 

 Of course, it is generally understood that the 

 surface grain in this case must run up and down, 

 hence the grain in solid parts is horizontal. The 

 reason for cross-banding is so obvious, and the 

 practice so common that no discussion is neces- 

 sary, it being merely a proposition to prevent 

 warping and to increase the stability o£ the 

 article. 



The total consumption of veneer in connection 

 with the manufacture of china-closets built after 

 this method, is considerably below that n-ben the 

 other process is employed. It is claimed by the 

 Johnson firm, and seemingly justly, that a su- 

 perior article is turned out In this way. 



