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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Ciimp )iave iinprovised siunlry fypcs of water 

 oraft, and they manage to faptiire quite a 

 quantity of fish from llie lake niglits, morn- 

 ings ami • • before I'hurt-li ' ' on Sundays. 

 The Mississippi Boy and His Steers 



Anotlier pii-ture shown herewith is that of 

 a boy and a yoke of steers. It ean readily 

 Ije seen that these oxen are about the size of 

 a brace of good healthy Southdowns. These 

 two yoke of miniature oxen are not only 

 jdaythings for the boy, but they also assist 

 him in gaining a livelihood. He confided to 

 tlie Hardwooo Record man that the two yoke 

 iif oxen can snake five tics from the woods 

 to the railroad at a tinu-. As yet the lad has 

 not the steers under entire control, as they are 

 yearlings, but he has a splendid start on the 

 r.ecessary vocabulary to make a succes.sful 

 ox-driver, and doubtless will eventually gradu- 

 ate with lienors. 



McCormick and His Speeder 



Tlie gentleman posing with his liack to the 

 audience in close communion with the in- 

 ternal anatomy of a gasoline speeder is the 

 distinguished general manager of the Carrier 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company at Sardis, 

 jNIiss. It will not l)e necessary to show a 



diagram to ilhistrate the point that the rail- 

 road speeder is not any nuire immune from 

 "trouble" than any other form of benzine 

 buzz wagon. It was onl.y the kindly instinct 

 of the artist which kept him from taking a 

 picture of Mr. McCormick lying flat on his 

 back underneath the car; presumably the ac- 

 companying picture will be less objectionable 

 to the subject than some that might have 

 been taken. This is the vehicle Mr. McCor- 

 mick uses in going over bis twenty-two miles 

 of railroad between Sardis and his woods 

 operations. Of course, ordinarily it takes 

 him out there within the hour in good shape, 

 but on all show occasions it "acts up." like 

 any other badlv behaved automobile. 



Model Lumber Piling 



Probably the best arranged h.-irdwood lum- 

 ber yard in the entire south country is that 

 of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company at its 

 big Charleston ]ilant. This yard is laid out 

 with mathematical accuracy and covers an 

 area of more than 40 acres. Plenty of air 

 space is provided in the alleys, back of the 

 piles and between them, and there is an open 

 air space in all directions. The piles are 

 mounteil on concrete foundations sunken into 



the earth, on top of wliicli are 10x10 ereo- 

 soted oak posts. On top of these posts oak 

 timbers are placed, and the piles mounted on 

 top of these. It is one of the cleanest and 

 best maintained yards the writer has ever 

 seen, and the piling is certainly done excep- 

 tionally well. 



Kemoval of Headquarters 

 Ever since the advent of the big Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber C^ompany in the Memphis dis- 

 trict its general offices and sales headquar- 

 ters have been maintained in that eity. It 

 has been deemed exjiedient to remove the 

 managerial and sales headquarters to the com- 

 pany 's plant at Charleston, Miss., the seat of 

 its chief operations. On or about June 18 the 

 entire oflSce force will pack np its belong- 

 ings at Memphis and reencamp in the hand- 

 some office bnilding of the company located 

 alongside the big Charleston plant. This 

 company is now producing at its Charleston 

 and Memphis sawmills over 150,000 feet of 

 oak, gum and minor hardwoods daily, and is 

 consuming upwards of 4,000,000 feet of hick- 

 ory logs in its wagon and carriage woodwork 

 plant at Charleston, This makes this insti- 

 tution one of the leading hardwood manufac- 

 turing liouses in the United States. 



Chicago as a Mahogant; JMarket 



Chicago is one of the chief mahogany im- 

 porting centers in the United States. A large 

 quantity of mahogany lumber is manufac- 

 tured in the city, but it is perhaps more 

 celebrated for its immense production of ma- 

 hogany veneers. The foremost manufacturer 

 nf veneers from mahogany as well as from 

 Circassian walnut and other fancy w^oods in 

 this market is C. L. Willey, whose extensive 

 jdant is located on Robey .street near Blue 

 Island avenue. Mr. Willey employs buyers 

 in the chief English markets who are con- 

 stantly on the look-out for choice logs, and 

 everv vear Mr. 'Willey makes two trips abroad 



to supiilenient the work of his foreign agents 

 in log i)nrcliase.s. As noted in the Record 

 at the time, Mr. Willey was in London and 

 Liverpool ihning Februar_y last and on this 

 visit ]iurcliased upwards of thirteen hundred, 

 mahogany logs of large size and fine quality. 

 These logs arc now arriving via New Orleans. 

 On this page is pictured between six hundred 

 and seven hun<lred of them piled in Mr. 

 Willey 's log yard at the Robey street plant, 

 Chicago. 



Among these logs are many remarkable 

 siieeimens of figured wood, ami there are also 

 three logs from one tree <if African wood, 



which are remarkable for size. The three 

 logs average nineteen feet long and sixty-six 

 inches square and total fourteen thousand 

 feet board measure. 



One of these big hewn logs is seen at the 

 left of th?' picture with a man standing be- 

 side it. from which the size of these timbers 

 many be judged. 



Weidman Mill Sold 



.hilui S. Weidman ni Ml. I'Icasant. Mich., the 

 well-known manul'actuier and wholesale dealer 

 in lumber, lath and shingles, has sold his saw- 

 mill at Weidman. Mich., t" ('. L. King & Co. of 

 Holland. Mich., wii.i will move it at once. 



SCENi; IN 



WILLEYS CniC.^GO YAIiP, WIIEUE .\I!E I'lLED ABOUT SIX HCNDUEU FINE MAHOGANY LOGS 



