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HARDWOOD RECORD 



"KjDund About the Southern HardWood Country 



Hardwood Logs Received in Memphis 



The Valley Log Loadiug Company of Jleni- 

 phis which is engaged in picking np and load- 

 ing logs with steam loaders between Memphis 

 and Vicksburg on the Y. & M. V. division of 

 the Illinois Central, has just compiled its 

 records for the fiscal year ending May 31. 

 This company during the past year has loaded 

 13,700 cars, with an average log scale of 

 4,500 feet per car, or a total of 61,650,000 

 feet. It is estimated that this handling rep- 

 resents two-thirds of the total number of logs 

 shipped into Memphis by rail for the sawmills 

 of that city. This would make a total of a 

 Httle over 90,000,000 feet. The logs received 

 by barge and rafts at the Memphis mills will 

 probably amount to 30,000,000 feet additional, 

 or about 120,000,000 feet in all. There are 

 something like thirty sawmills in Memphis, 

 but it must be recalled that during the past 

 year a good many have been closed down a 

 large portion of the time, and that compara- 

 tively few of the number have been in con- 

 tinuous operation. 



The logs that are annually cut into lumber 

 in Memphis by no means constitutes the larger 

 portion of the lumber produced and handled 

 by Memphis manufacturers and dealers, as a 

 large number of plants are operated in the 

 vicinity by Memphis institutions. Some of 

 this lumber is assembled in Memphis, but a 

 large portion of it is shipped direct from the 

 mills. 



Lumbermen Baseball Teams 



There has come into fashion of late a very 

 sensible amusement feature at many hardwood 



lumber centers of the country, and also at 

 some of the larger sawmills; that is, the 

 furthering of athletic sports. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company at its big 

 Charleston, Miss., plant has a regular organ- 

 ized athletic club. It has a fine baseball field 

 and a well-equipped team of skillful and en- 

 thusiastic players. The diamond is one of the 

 finest in Mississippi and the Lamb-Fish Lum- 

 ber Company feels very proud of its team, 

 as it has been doing most excellent work, thus 

 far this season having lost but one game. The 

 team has been up against one of the strongest 

 aggregations of the South. The club feels 

 certain of making a great showing by the end 

 of the season. 



A picture of the club is shown on this page. 

 A game has been arranged between the 

 Charleston Club and that of the Memphis 

 Lumbermen's Club, to be played on the 

 Charleston diamond June 18. Later in the 

 season the Charleston Club hopes to ai-range 

 games with the Lumbermen's clubs of Nash- 

 ville, Louisville, Cincinnati and St. Louis, and 

 it is also anxious to try out its prowess with 

 any other lumbermen 's club that will give it 

 the opportunity. 



These athletic clubs in connection with lum- 

 ber plants can not be too highly commended. 

 They instill healthful sporting interest and 

 arc of incalculable value to the participants, 

 and afford mighty good amusement for the 

 local baseball rooters. 



A Hewer of Ties 



One of the pictures on this page shows an 

 old Mississippi darky whosp occupation for 



many years has been hewing tics in the Mis- 

 sissippi bottoms. The picture is presented 

 as sliowing the type of negro labor which pre- 

 dominates in that section of the country. The 

 negro is the bulwark of the labor element of 

 that region, and without him it would be abso- 

 lutely impracticable for sawmill men to carry 

 on lumber operations. 



Floating Log Derricks 

 While a large quantity of Cottonwood, gum 

 and other timber that can be floated is made 

 up into rafts and delivered to the Sawmills 

 of the lower Mississippi and its tributaries, a 

 large number of logs are shipped on barges. 

 The floating derrick pictured in connection 

 with this article is the ty])e used by all log- 

 ging operations. These derricks pick up the 

 logs, load them on the barges, and also unload 

 them from the barges to piles on the banks of 

 the river near the sawmill, or handle them 

 direct to the log slides of the mills. This sys- 

 tem of log handling has been demonstrated as 

 practical and economical for lower Mississippi 

 operations. 



A Bit of President Carrier's Scenery- 

 Flat country ordinarily receives little atten- 

 tion for artistic photography, but occasionally 

 there is found a bit of scenery that makes a 

 very alluring photograph. In this connection is 

 depicted a bit of Bobo Lake near Sardis, Miss. 

 This is one of the most attractive bodies of 

 water in the entire South. The picture was 

 taken from a position directly in front of the 

 Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company's 

 logging headquarters camp. The boys at the 



B.\SI;L>.\I.L TE.i.M Oh LA.MB-l'iSH Hi.Ml'.IOH r( I. S ]-..\ll'l,i li KS AT CHARLES- 

 TON, MISS., PLANT 



A MLSsissirri character who hews 



TIES FOR A LIVING 



