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HARDWOOD RECORD 



To provide for its yard requirements and 

 railroad conveniences in St. Louis the company 

 has recently leased from the North Wharf Land 

 Company a long strip of ground on the south 

 side of Angelica street, having a frontage of 

 900 feet by a depth of 160 feet. The location 

 has admirable railroad facilities, and is only 

 a short distance from the river. To eliminate 

 team hauling over even short distances a switch 

 from the Terminal railroad is being constructed 

 along the full strength of the property. Other 

 improvements are under way, including the con- 

 struction of a brick office building and the fill- 

 ing in the ground in a few places to level 

 it up. 



As soon as the railroad switch is in, the 

 company will begin piling lumber, of which it 

 handles all kinds in the hardwood line. The 

 formal removal of the headquarters and the 

 business from Memphis will take place as soon 

 as the details of closing out at that point are 

 completed, which will probably be in the course 

 of the next month. Application has already 

 been made by the company to do business in 

 Missouri under its Tennessee charter. 



Receiver for Box Concern 



The Maxwell Brothers Company of Chicago, 

 manufacturers of wooden boxes, has been placed 

 in the hands of a receiver by Judge Carpenter 

 in the Federal District Court at the request 

 of the Red River Lumber Company of Chicago 

 and Minneapolis, one of its largest creditors. 

 Tue liabilities of the company amount to more 

 than $200,000 and several large bills are about 

 due. The American Trust & Savings Bank was 

 appointed receiver and its bond fixed at $25,000. 



In its petition the Red River Lumber Company 

 alleges that the assets of the box company, in- 

 cluding its equity in real estate, totals aoout 

 iSlOo.OOO. The failure to effect a contract with 

 Armour & Co., who have purchased practically 

 ninety per cent, of their output, the high cost of 

 labor and raw material, were the causes men- 

 tioned by the complainant in the petition. The 

 Armour contract expired June 30. 



In May, according to the petition, the company 

 became embarrassed and a creditors' committee, 

 of which O. O. Agler of Upham &. Agler was 

 chairman, was appointed. While the committee 

 was in charge of the company's business it bor- 

 rowed $30,000. The Red River Lumber Company 

 alleges the Maxwell company owes it $44,459.02. 



■Wisconsin Hard'wood Prices 



The Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, through its secretary, is- 

 sues the following as a concensus of sales re- 

 ported by members during the month of June 

 on inch stock : 



Ash : No. 2 comm.on and better, $25, $26, 

 $.30 ; firsts and seconds, $33 : No. 1 common, 

 $24 ; No. 3 common. $8.50, $8.50, $0. 



Basswood : No. 2 common and better, $22.75, 

 $23, $27 ; firsts and seconds, $39.50, $40 : No. 

 1 common, $23, $24, $27, $28; No. S common, 

 $14, $15, $15, $17 : No. 3 common, $7.50, 

 $10.50, $11. $11. $12.50. 



Birch : No. 2 common and better. $19.50, 

 $22. $23, $23 ; firsts and seconds, $35 ; No. 1 

 common, $20: No. 2 common, $13; No. 3 

 common, average $7.73, highest, IglO, lowest. 

 .$6.50. 



Rock Elm : No. 2 common and better, $25, 

 $25 ; No. 3 common. $11, $15. 



Soft Elm : No. 2 common and better, $22, 

 $22 ; No. 3 common, $10.50, $12.50. 



Hard Maple : No. 2 common and better, $20 ; 

 firsts and seconds. $22.75 : No. 1 common, 

 $13.75 ; No. 3 common, $9.75. 



Soft Maple : No. 3 common, $8.50. 



Big Chemical Company Organized 



The La,ke Superior Iron & Chemical Com- 

 pany, composed of Detroit, Canadian and Bos- 

 ton interests, has recently been organized with 

 a capital of $6,500,000. This concern will he 

 the largest producer in the country of char- 

 coal, pig iron, wood alcohol and acetate of lime. 



The new concern will take over six char- 

 coal pig iron furnaces, together with chemical 

 and charcoal plants located at Ashland, Wis. ; 



Manistique, Mich. ; Newberry, Mich. ; Boyne 

 City, Mich. ; Elk Rapids, Mich., and Chocolay, 

 Mich., having a total pig iron capacity of 108,- 

 000 tons per annum. 



It is also acquiring a hardwood supply cov- 

 ering 301,709 acres. It also secures thirty- 

 live miles of railway and equipment. 



There has been negotiated a lease of the 

 Yale mine located in Bessemer, Mich., and 

 which has 570,000 tons of ore blocked out ; 

 also a lease of a semi-developed mine known 

 as the Tylers Fork property, both of which 

 are located on the Gogebic iron range of Michi- 

 gan. 



Up at Grayling the fishing is always fine and 

 the air is cool, and Mr. Hanson and his subordi- 

 nates always have their latch string out. 



Buy Oak Timter 



One of tlie most important timber deals of 

 the year has just been completed by Mowbray 

 ic Robinson, extensive hardwood manufacturers 

 ol Cincinnati, who by the purchase of 60,000.- 

 (iOO feet of white oak timber in Breathitt county, 

 Kentucky, have acquired some of the best tim- 

 ber in that state. The purchasers will at once 

 locate a large band mill at the mouth of Quick- 

 sand creek, three miles above Jackson, Ky., on 

 the Kentucky River, and begin operations. 

 James Norton, at present associated with the 

 company, will be local manager. The espe- 

 cially select white oak timber to be found in 

 Breathitt county. Kentucky, makes^ this i)urchase 

 by Mow^bray & Robinson of particular interest. 

 The sale was made by the Kentucky River 

 Hardwood Company, who recently sold the pop- 

 lar timber on the same tract to Vansant, Kitchen 

 & Co. of Ashland, Ky. 



New Biltmore Catalog 



Doctor C. A. Schenck, director of the Biltmore 

 Forest School, has gotten out a new catalog 

 covering the entire year's work under the new 

 curriculum. The book is illustrated with pho- 

 tographs of the headquarters of the school in 

 the various points which it visits, the scenes 

 showing the students at work in the German 

 forests being of especial interest. A picture 

 showing the village of Sunburst on the grounds 

 of the Champion Fibre Company, near Ashe- 

 ville, N. C, gives a fair idea of the topogra- 

 phy of that .section and shows to a certain ex- 

 tent the way the students live at present. The 

 lorestal and topographical conditions prevail- 

 ing at Sunburst and in that vicinity are very 

 similar to those which Ihe students studied for 

 years in the famous old quarters in the Pink 

 Beds. So in the new move they are really 

 not losing anything and are gaining everything. 

 Dr. Schenck's claim that his is a real forest 

 school in that it never leaves the woods, is more 

 descriptive of the course of study than anything 

 else that oan be said. 



Forest Service Report on Odd Lengths 



Prompted by resolutions adopted by various 

 associations of lumber manufacturers to produce 

 odd as well as even lengths of flooring, ceil- 

 ing, drop and bevel siding, finish, iiartition and 



R. HANSON & SONS' NLW SINGLE BAND SAW.MILL 



The MiU at "T" Town 



"T" Town IS the suburb of Grayling, Mich., 

 where is located the model new single band 

 hardwood sawmill of R. Hanson &, Sons. The 

 suburb is named after T. W. Hanson, son of R. 

 Hanson, and general manager of the institution. 

 The mill was built and equipped by the M. 

 Garland Company of Bay City, Mich., and au- 

 thorities say it is the most compact and eco- 

 nomical single band hardwood mill in America. 



The equipment consists of an 8-foot band mill. 

 40-foot steel carriage, edger, trimmer, wood 

 slasher, Corliss engine, and high pressure boil- 

 ers. All the equipment is of the very latest 

 type and all transfers are operated by steam 

 cylinders. There are only twenty men on the 

 pay-roll, including a blacksmith, and a man 

 to unload logs to the pond. From 420 to 450 

 hardwood logs are cut into inch lumber daily. 

 The owners are very enthusiastic over this 

 new mill. 



Incidentally, in these days of heat and swel- 

 ter, any man who contemplates the erection 

 of a new hardwood mill ought to visit this one 

 at Grayling, and the other fine lumber ai^tl 

 flooring manufacturing equipments installed in 

 that thriving town. Also, by the way, stop en 

 route at Bay City where a visit to the big 

 sawmill machinery plant of the M. Garland 

 Company would be no waste of time. 



molding, the Department of Agriculture under- 

 took an investigation to determine the effect 

 of this movement on saving in waste in lum- 

 ber production. Statistics were gathered in the 

 Pacific Coast region and the yellow pine re- 

 gion to show the unnecessary waste in planing 

 niill products due to the manufacture of even 

 lengths only. 



It was found that under conditions on the 

 Pacific Coast the cutting of odd lengths would 

 increase the output by 2.07 per cent. In the 

 report just sent to the Yellow Pine Manufac- 

 turers' Association the Forest Service gives a 

 number of tables showing the saving which ■ 

 would result from the cutting of odd lengths of 

 yellow pine in the South. A possible saving 

 of 1.21 per cent may be effected through the 

 cutting of odd as well as even lengths in this 

 section. Estimating that planing mill products 

 are about 22 per cent of the total output of 

 yellow pine, the figures obtained by the govern- 

 ment investigation indicate that approximately 

 30,000,000 feet of planing mill material might 

 be saved annually by manufacturing odd lengths 

 in both saw and planing mill. At $20 per 

 thousand the value of this material would reach 

 $600,000. In hardwoods it has been demon- 

 strated that the saving would be even greater. 



The report shows that there is a reasonable ) 

 basis for the manufacture of odd lengths in 



