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THIKTY-INCII AND Ul' % l^ANEL 



THE STORY OF 



YELLOW POPLAR 



Illustrations from Photoffraphs by Editor Hardwood Record 



CHAPTER X 



The operations of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company at Coal 

 Grove, Ohio, to vrliich this series of stories relates, are unique 

 in poplar history. The comj).ii;y during its long and honorable 

 career has engaged exclusively in the production, assorting, re- 

 manufacturing and distributing of virgin yellow poplar lumber. 

 Practicalh- all the remaining poplar manufactiuing institutions 

 in the country produce other kinds of lumber as well as poplar, 

 but this company for years has devoted its entire energies to 

 specializing in this one "wood. 



Buring the long career of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 

 it has owned and worked many thousand acres of timber land in 

 which the stand of poplar rar.ged from one thousand to three 

 thousand feet to the acre, while the total merchantable timber 

 on the property often amounted to from ten to tifteen thousand 

 feet to the acre. 



This company has logged out of the mountain regions its poplar 

 exclusively, and has either held the oak and other sturapage or 

 sold the lands to other operators. Adherence to this system has 

 been a matter of policy. The managers of the concern believe 

 that by confining their attention strictly to one kind of wood, 

 and that of the highest type of growth, they cotild specialize and 

 turn out a more desirable product better suited to the requirements 



of the trade than other concerns which devoted only part of their 

 energies to poplar. 



Specializing in poplar with the Y'ellow Poplar Lumber Company 

 means the production of anything that can be made out of this 

 wood, and its delivery in the Dest possible form to the trade. 



Previous stories in H.\rd\vood Record have recited sundry de- 

 tails of the method of log production, splash damming, rafting, 

 floating and delivering virgin poplar timber to the company's 

 mills on the Ohio river, and briefly have analyzed its methods of 

 sawing, piling, dry-kilning, dressing, assorting, shipping, etc., but 

 no specific mention lias before been made of the infinite details 

 embraced in the work of this great poplar-producing house. 



At the present time the pr'^mier product of the Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Company is panel stock, which is used in automobile body 

 construction. The demand for this width and quality of stock 

 from automobile manufacturers taxes the capacity of the plant 

 to the utmost, and so strenuous has been the call during the last 

 few months that this character of stock has been shipped direct 

 from the saw. 



The Panel and Wide No. 1 is assorted to varying widths, IS to 

 23 inches, 24 to 27 and 28 inches and up. It is also made in %- 

 inch in corresponding widths. The company also makes wide No. 

 2 stock assorted in the same series of widths. Firsts and Seconds 



