Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-07
DEALERS IN LOGS.
Timber of Certain Kinds Supplied
for Special Uses.

Timber of Certain Kinds Supplied
for Special Uses.
In a downtown building there APP
pears on the door of one office, under
the name OF the concern occupying II,
this word Logs" The business Of
the concern is to supply logs of certain
native woods for the use of veneer
manufacturers, and logs of certain
woods for export, says the New York
Sum-
White oak, yellow poplar and ash
are the woods that this concern collects
for veneering purposes, and 1t buys
these wherever 1t can find them. For
some years the principal sources OF
supply for white oak have been Fir-
ginia and West Virginia.
Two or three times a year menu
Der of the firm, who is also Its buyer.
traverses these States in search of suit
able white oak trees, and he may find
yellow poplar and ash in the same
regions. The white oak has been pref
ty well cut away along the lines OF the
railroads. and so now he goes back in
the country and spends weeks there
| looking for suitable trees.
A log is the clear trunk of the tree
extending from the ground to where
the tree branches TO be available for
| veneers a white oak log must be at
least ten feet in length and not less
| than thirty inches in diameter, for the
oak must be quartered before it is saw
ed or sliced into veneers. They get
| oak logs that will cut ten, twelve 5four-
teen and sixteen feet, and occasionally
they find white oak tree with a trunk
| that will measure thirty-six feet, cut
| ting three twelve-foot logs, the biggest
Of these having diameter of perhaps
| fort five inches.
| The log buyer may get back as far
az twenty-five miles from the railroad,
which Is about as far as 1t pays to
| haul log, and, of course, the farther
back he gets the less he pays for the
trees, for there is to be added to the
price paid for them the cost of hauling
them to shipping point. He will buy
one tree or three or four or any num-
ber
| When the trees have been cut down
the buyer has to get them to the rail
road, and for this work he hires teams
in the neighborhood and it takes good
teams and hard work to get the logs
out over the rough mountain roads
One big white oak tree that was bought
at point twenty miles back, and that
cut into two lengths, it took two six
horse teams. each hauling a single cut,
| two days to haul out.
1t may be that the buyer will hit a
bunch of trees, enough for carload of
logs, In one place; but If he doesn't
find so many in one spot he gets the
one tree or three or four or half a
dozen that he may find here or there
to the railroad and brands them, and
then goes on collecting until he has got
| together enough to make car load or
more. This concern brings veneer logs
| to New York, and it ships also to Bos-
| ton.
The black walnut logs collected are
mostly shipped to Germany and Spain,
those sent to Spain being shipped in
the bark, while those sent to Germany
are hewed eight-sided here before ship
ment. The black walnut logs are
brought mainly from the South. The
biggest black walnut tree that this con-
Germ ever bought was found in New
Jersey, and when cut measured feet
| In diameter at the butt.