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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A STAGE OF PROGRESS NOT OFTEN REACHED BY- THE 

 SAWMILL NEGRO 



BORN IN Tin-: SHADOW UF A SAWIHLL, ALL TIIEHS LIVES 

 ARE Sl'ENT IN LUMBER OPERATIONS 



fully. The car of lumber is then put right 

 into the clry room while it is wet and hot 

 and there dried perfectly. The manufac- 

 turers find this a most satisfactory method 

 of procedure, as this treatment produces 

 lumber without the many small defects 

 often seen in stock dried too rapidly or in 

 a plain kiln without any previous treatment. 



The steaming rooms are best made of 

 concrete, as the heat and moisture necessary 

 in the treatment of the stock would be 

 ruinous to a wooden structure. These kilns 

 tre all built as units, and with the steam 

 rooms can be added to indefinitely as long 

 as the necessary ground can be obtained. 

 Getting Something from Nothing 



Cores from veneer logs, which were for- 

 merly wasted at a great many mills, are now 

 being utilized profitably, which is as it 

 should he. since there is such need of con- 

 servation of our forest products. There are 

 a number of ways of putting these cores 

 to good rse, and the Anderson-Tully Com- 

 pany of Memphis has apparently hit upon 

 one of the best. One of the accompanying 

 cuts shows a pile of "shorts" in the Ander- 

 son-TulIy yard. These were cut from veneer 

 cores, and are used for box and crate stock. 

 This picture shows only a small portion of 

 the yard, but there are many thousand feet 

 of good lumber in these piles. This is one 

 way of making the small things count which 

 helps mightily in the totalling of the big 

 things. 



One of the Old School 



Back ;;i the woods near Lansing, Ark., the 

 Edwards-Fair Lumber Company operates a 

 min, as it is cheaper to haul out lumber 

 from this point than to bring out logs. This 

 is one or the fast circular mills, once so 

 plentiful, and it is turning out accurately 

 manufactured stock which finds a ready 

 market. The mill recently resumed opera- 

 tions after a shutdown of nine months. 

 Will Fair holds forth at the county seat 



and looks after the making of fine gum logs 

 into finer gum lumber. Tlie writer visited 

 this mill a short time ago, enjoying the 

 facility and ease with which operations are 

 carried on, and incidentally a good old-fash- 

 ioned camp dinner. 



A Big Item in the Retail Trade 



A big and desirable part of the city trade 

 of Memphis mills, since it takes no account 

 of grades, or finish, or manufacture, is 

 shown in the illustration of the busy plant 

 of the Green Eiver Lumber Company. Neith- 

 er good times nor hard times affects the 

 demand for fire wood to any great extent, 

 as people must cook, and they are not par- 

 ticular under what grading rules their stove 

 wood is sold. This is one of the really big 

 items in the local sales of the mill, the 

 wagons loading one after the other in quick 

 succession, the gap in the circle being only 

 -momentary. The Green Eiver Lumber 

 Oompany turns every piece of waste into 

 fuel, either for the mill or for the wood pile, 

 not even a scrap of bark escaping. The 

 plant of the company is a model of neatness 

 and is always as well kept as a good many 

 city lawns. 



At Monroe, La. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Company, 

 of Louisville, Ky., has a fine mill at Mon- 

 roe, La. This plant is at present in full 

 operation, cutting principally on stock for 

 export and special orders. Nearly all the 

 timber for the mill is barged from up and 

 down the Ouachita, the vagaries of the 

 stream making rafting too risky and 

 expensive. Eafts of logs are brought 

 down under favorable conditions now 

 and then but it is exceptional that this 

 can be done. For handling the logs to the 

 mill a derrick and barge have been found 

 the best system, the steep bank of the river 

 at the mill making any other system costly 

 to install and operate. The river at the 

 point where the company's mill is located is 



fifty feet or more below the bank at low 

 water, so the use of the derrick makes the 

 logging to the mill entirely independent of 

 the stage of water, which is very advan- 

 tageous if not absolutely necessary on 

 streams that have a rapid rise and fall. 



The Memphis Sawmill Company's Interest- 

 ing Derrick 



Shown in connection with this article is a 

 cut of the unique electric log crane in use at 

 the plant of the Memphis Sawmill Company 

 at Memphis, Tenn. This concern is very 

 proud of this efficient log transfer, and when' 

 it was announced in the last issue of the 

 Eecohd that the derrick was in operation at 

 the plant of the Memphis Lumber Company 

 instead of the Memphis Sawmill Company 

 that concern was heard from promptly de- 

 manding that a paragraph correcting the. 

 error be printed. As this is one of the most 

 efficient methods of handling logs in use at. 

 Memphis the company has good reason to be. 

 proud of operating such a derrick. This crane 

 is much more rapid than the ordinary steam 

 crane, is self-contained, being operated by 

 electricity, and is controlled by the operator 

 in the little house on the mast. It has the 

 necessary height and range and swings in a 

 complete circle. 



Demands $50,000 for Arrest 

 Charging: false imprisonment J. Iv. Joice, re- 

 cently of the defunct TiirnbuU-Joice Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, which went into bank- 

 ruptcy in April, has filed suit for $50,000 

 atainst the Alaslia Lumber Company of Wash- 

 ington and its Chicago representative, Chas. E. 

 Vest. 



Mr. Joice was arrested a few days ago OD 

 a warrant sworn out by Mr. Vest and the 

 Alaska Lumber Company as having misappro- 

 priated funds arising from the sale of lumber 

 belonging to them. The trouble, according to 

 Mr. Joice, grew out of transactions of the 

 Turnbull-Joice Lumber Company with the 

 Alaska Lumber Company in which there re- 

 mained an unpaid balance on account of some- 

 thing like ?800. 



