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The Wisconsin lumberman, devoted to the lumbering interests of the northwest
Volume III. Number 6 (March, 1875)
Black stains for wood, p. 491
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Tke Wisconsiu Lumberman. by years of prosperity; and then having be- gun in this career of self-reliance we Shl Shall not require outside assistance. Indeed, the happy conception of the three- feet gauge has placed it in the power of every town to build and own its own road, and thus be relieved from continued contributions to outside parties, which becomes such a devas- tating drain upon any community. In conclusion we ask the confidence of the people in this enterprise, and trust that our appeal for funds to iron and equip the forty or ffty miles already graded, will meet with such a cheerful and ready response that the work can at once be entered upon, and the first divison completed the present season while labor and material can be obtained at such a low figure. It will not be denied that Chicago makes a successful bid for a large amount of Wiscon- sin trade through her Northwestern and other roads, and we greatly mistake the temper of the business men of Milwaukee if they do not arcept this offer and opportunity to makb re- prisals from Illinois and Iowa; for it must not be forgotten that the first twelve or fif- teen miles of this road is the beginning of the Milwaukee and St. Louis Air Line. which will run southwest through the whole state of Illinois. * 5:: Black Stains for Wood. A German trade circular describes two kinds of black stains for wood: (1) The ordinary black stains for different kinds of wood. (2) The black ebony stain for cer- tain woods whieh approach nearest to eb- ony in hardness and weight. The ordina- ry black-wood stain is obtained by boiling together blue Brazil wood, powdered gall apples, and alum, in rain or river water, until it becomes black. The liquid is then filtered through a fine organzine, and the ojects painted with a new brush before the decoction has cooled, and this repeated un- til the wood appears of a fine black color: It is then coated with the following liquid. a mixture of iron filings, vitriol, and vine- gar is heated (without boiling), and left a few days to settle. If the wood is black enough, yet for the sake of durability, it must be coated with a solution of alum and nitric acid, mixed with a little verdigris, then a decoction of gall apples and logwood dyes are used to give it a deep black. A decoction may be made of brown Brazil wood with alum in rain water, without gall apples; the wood is left standing in it for some days in a moderately warm place, and to it merely iron filings in strong vine- gar is added, and both are boiled with the wood over a gentle fire. For this purpose soft pear-wood is chosen, which is prefer- * able to all others for black staining. For I the fine black ebony stain, apple, pear, and hazel wood are recommended in prefer- erence for this; especially when these kinds of wood have no projecting veins they may be successfully coated with black stain, and are the most comnlete immita- tion of the natural ebony. For this com- pound 14 oz. of gall apples, 3X oz. of rasped logwood, 1Y oz. of vitriol. and 13Y oz. of distilled verdigris are boiled together with water in awell-glazed pot, the decoction filtered while it is warm, and the wood coated with rpeated hot layc-s of it. For a sec- ond coating a mixture of 3A oz. of pure iron fillings dissolved in three-quarters of a litre of strong wine vinegar, is warmed, and when cool the wood already blackened * is coated two or three times with it, allow- ing each coat to dry between. For arti- cles which are to be thoroughly saturated, a mixture of 1YI oz. of sal-ammoniac, with a sufficient quantity of steel filings, is to be placed in a suitable vessel, strong vinegar * poured upon it, and left for fourteen days inn gently heated oven. A strong lye is is now put in a good pot, to which is added coarsely braised gall apples and blue Bra- zil shavings and exposed for the same time as the former to the gentle heat of an oven, which will then yield a good liquid. the pear-wood articles are now laid in the first named stain, boiled for a tew hours, and left in for three days longer; they are then placed in a second stain, and treated as in the first. If the articles are not then thoroughly saturated, they may be once more placed in the first bath, and then in the second. Deeision of the MIkhigan Supreme Court Relative to Log Running. The case of Speechley & Lee vs. Thun- der Bay Boom Company, taken from Al- pena circuit, was decided in the supreme court against the Boom Company and af- firming the decision in the lower court. The principal question involved was the right of a boom company to flood a stream in order to enable it run a large quantity of logs of certain rapids in the Thunder Bay river, interfearing with the property of Speechley and Lee below. The court held that the Boom Company had no such rights-that the question of such use be- ing a reasonable one was a question of law for the court and not one of fact for the jury 491
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