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HARDWOOD RECORD 



THE DOUBLE BAND MILL OF THE YELLOW I'OPLAR UMBER COMPANY, COAL GROVE, OHIO. 



THE STORY OF 



YELLOW POPLAR 



Illustrations from Photoj^raphs by Editor Hardwood Record 



CHAPTER IX 



The halftone at the heail of this page shows the model double 

 band mill of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, which is located 

 on the Ohio river at Coal Grove, 0. While the mill is not a new 

 one, it is particularly well constructed and thoroughly equipped. 

 It has concrete foundations and is fitted with the best machinery 

 and appliances on the market today. 



The long log haul-up descends the bank of the river to the water, 

 in which are stored the company 's fleets of big poplar timber. At 

 the foot of the slide these sticks, with the aid of a drag saw, are 

 cut to log lengths before being delivered to the saw decks. 



Poplar is at present of such high value that infinite pains are 

 taken in the manufacture of every log in order to secure the best 

 possible results. Each log is carefully studied by the sawyer to 

 accomplish this end, and great skill is displayed in cutting. To 

 supply the insistent demand for wide stock, the company makes a 

 practice of cutting from the average log a slab and one or two 

 boards on two sides and then the cant is turned and sawed through 

 and through full width. The mill has been run eleven hours daily 

 all season and it shows an average daily output of 130,000 feet. 



Among the new frills in sawmill machinery installed this spring 

 at the plant of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company is a three-saw, 



odd-length trimmer built by the M. Garland Company of Bay City, 

 Mich., from plans made by the sawmill superintendent of the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. The lumber is not only edged 

 with extreme care but the trimming is done with such nicety as 

 to show the highest possible grade. The use of this trimmer adds 

 nearly seventeen per cent of odd length product to the daily cut. This 

 seems truly remarkable when it is recalled that most of these virgin 

 poplar logs are very long and are freshly sawed to length at the foot 

 of the sliile. The manifest gain in the manufacture of lumber by this . 

 method of trimming is certainly an object lesson in careful manipu- 

 lation. 



The great bank of earth shown at the left of the picture on 

 this page is a part of the levee system which surrounds the entire 

 plant of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, and insures its abso- 

 lute protection from floods that might occur from unusual tides in 

 the Ohio river. 



The picture on the right-hand page accompanying this article 

 shows something of the character and quality of the premier product 

 of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company — wide panel stock, which 

 goes into the manufacture of automobile bodies. So insistent has 

 the automobile trade become in securing this incomparable stock 

 that the company has not yet been able to accumulate any consider- 



