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HARDWOOD RECORD 



In the Southern HardWood Country 



A SECTION OF THE IJ-MUKK llISTIilCT OF NOKTII MEMl'IIIS. 



THE KIND OF LOADING OF WHICH NO ONE WOULD BK PROUD. 



Peculiar Tree Growth 

 On the bank of Lake Carrier on the timber 

 property owned by the Carrier Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company at Sardis, Mis?., is 

 a pair of sizable oak trees that have grown 

 togetlier in a veritable Siamese-twin fashion. 

 They are illustrated in an engraving on this 

 page. Back of the oak trees is a large 

 cypress. The two oaks are joined together by 

 a growth nearly as large as the trees them- 

 selves and without apparent reason. It is 

 hard to figure out how nature happened to 

 indulge in this strange freak of growtli. 

 Acres of Hardwood 

 The first picture on this page shows a 

 section of the great hardwood lumber dis- 

 trict of Korth Memphis in which are piled 

 millions of feet of hardwood. This picture 

 is a fair illustration of the workmanlike man- 

 ner in which Memphis lumbermen pile their 

 lumber. Nearly every yard man there takes 

 great pride in the symmetry of his piles, 

 square foundations and clean alleys. 



The Loading of Lumber 



The picture of the Illinois Central carload 

 of lumber in the upper right hand corner of 

 this page is published, not as an example 



of good car loading, but as an object lesson 

 of one remarkably badly loaded. 



Eailroads are nowadays supposed to require 

 that lumber be loaded in such a manner as 

 to insure its carrying safely, but a visit to 

 any railroad receiving yard in the city of 

 Chicago would very soon demonstrate that 

 large quantities of lumber are very carelessly 

 loaded. Especial care should be taken with 

 heavy dressed stock, which is prone to slip 

 when flat cars are shunted, and even in ordi- 

 nary train movement. 



Again, a buyer on receiving a car of badly 

 loaded lumber is prejudiced against the qual- 

 ity of the stock itself. It adds actual dollars 

 to the value of a car of lumber if it be eare- 

 fullv and properly loaded. 



An Ingenious Conveyor System 



At a yellow pine mill at Alexandria, La., is 

 a double conveyor from the sawmill to the 

 fire pit, and from the mill conveyor to a 

 dimension mill aiul thence to the slab pit. 

 This conveyor is illustrated in the accompany- 

 ing engraving. By its employment, the use- 

 able oifal from the mill is saved and utilized 

 for dimension material. 



Concrete Power Houses 



On the oppo.site page are shown two types 

 of engine houses of fireproof construction built 

 f ro)ii concrete blocks. The one is the power house 

 of tlie Memphis Column Company's plant and 

 the other the Anderson-Tully Company's, both 

 at Memphis. This form of construction is not 

 expensive and materially decreases insurance 

 cost. Concrete is now made in so many forms, 

 cither in solid construction or hollow blocks, 

 which, together with its economy, makes it a 

 favorite material and one that is increasing 

 iu use for a good deal of work about saw- 

 mills and woodworking plants generally. 



Just a "Nigger" and a Mule 



The Record itinerant encountered a typical 

 team of "nigger and mule" the other day 

 and snapped the picture shown herewithv 

 This particular ' ' nigger ' ' and mule hold forth 

 at the plant of the Bellgrade Lumber Com- 

 pany at Bellgrade, Miss. The "nigger" and 

 the mule are indispensable adjuncts to every 

 sawmill in the South country, and their serv- 

 ices are equalh prized. 



HOW THE McLEAN LUMBER CO. OF MEMPHIS HANDLES ITS 

 THIN OAK. 



TRUCK CONVE.YOR, MEMPHIS SAWMILL CO. 



