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All Friday Reports are posted at www.vardaman.com/friday.phpVardaman Virtual Forestry CompanyFRIDAY REPORT OF 02/03/06The Most Direct, Frequent Link to Knowledge Workers in the Eastern Forest Economy"The Colored Man Works at One End of the Log and the White Man at the Other"Our title and quotes below are from The People’s Tycoon; Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts (Knopf, 2005): “Ford began purchasing land in 1925 and eventually accumulated about 70,000 acres in Bryan County (Georgia), about 20 miles south of Savannah. The Fords named their new home Richmond Hill. The couple frequently indulged in their hobby of bird-watching. Earthmoving machines created a network of canals and drainage ditches through some 75,000 acres. When the swampy ground had been drained sufficiently, roads were built into areas that had previously been inaccessible. Ford rehabilitated a local sawmill. His acreage contained substantial growth of pine, hardwood, gum and cypress trees that were harvested for lumber, railroad ties and pulp. He determined how many board feet of lumber grew daily on his property, and set a quota for daily lumber production precisely at that amount. Ford visited the sawmill daily, monitoring the lumber being cut, sharing stories with the workers, and listening to the engines to make sure the valves were in perfect alignment. By 1940, Richmond Hill employed 351 white workers and 320 African Americans. Ford said, ‘Come to work, and the colored man works at one end of the log and the white man at the other. They work together just like brothers.’ In the late 1880s, Ford had worked with William Perry, an African American acquaintance, manning a two-man crosscut saw to harvest lumber on his land in Dearborn (Michigan). (Ford sawed and sold lumber from a farm his father gave him for two years to save up enough money to marry Clara, long before his automotive exploits.)” The above article was written by Paul D. Teter, outstanding consulting forester in Albany, GA, pdteter@surfsouth.com The e-mail address of Professor Watts is watts@missouri.edu. “DRIVING FOR EFFICIENCY”Our title and quotes below are from an article in the No. 3 2005 issue of The Lamp, a report published by Exxon Mobil Corporation: “America has made progress since the 1970s ‘energy shock.’ The U.S. economy today is nearly 50 percent more energy efficient than 30 years ago. Every form of transportation – planes, trains and automobiles – now benefits from improved fuels, lubricants and engine systems. “So why is it that, despite this overall progress, the average fuel economy of American cars is unchanged in two decades? “It’s because underlying engine efficiency gains have been largely offset by the increasing weight of vehicles, reflecting a growing share of the market moving to light trucks and sport utility vehicles. The size and flexibility of SUVs have made them popular and to many customers those benefits are hard to give up, even at higher fuel costs. “So what to do? “While some technologies hold promise for the longer term, the more immediate challenge is to continue improving engines and fuels to achieve maximum efficiency, regardless of vehicle size. “The best available science suggests that a further 50 percent improvement in the efficiency of the internal combustion engine may be achievable – without limiting consumer choice. Today’s hybrids are a start. “Would a 50 percent improvement be worth the investment needed to achieve it? “We think so. And through partnerships with manufacturers like Toyota and Caterpillar we’re working on fuel and engine systems that could dramatically improve efficiency and reduce emissions without restricting America’s ‘right to drive.’” PRODUCING OIL UNDER AMAZING CONDITIONSThis issue of The Lamp contains an outstanding story with photos and diagrams of the Yastreb rig on Sakhalin Island off Russia’s east coast north of Japan. Arctic pack ice encases the island for six months a year. Average temperature in January hovers around –4 degrees Fahrenheit. The western edge of the oil and gas field sits six miles offshore below the Sea of Okhotsk. In winter, the Okhotsk can be a sea of moving sheets of ice up to six feet thick. It is also subject to huge storms and seismic activity. The land-based rig uses extended-reach drilling that bores horizontally under the sea for six miles to reach the Chayvo field. More than 20 extended-reach wells are planned. Eventually crude produced will be moved through a pipeline across the Tatar Strait to an export terminal near the town the town of DeKastri on the Russian mainland. The oil will then be offloaded into double-hull vessels and escorted by icebreakers, providing year-round shipments to international markets. The company reports that “The Lamp is published for ExxonMobil shareholders. Others may receive it on request. It is produced by the Public Affairs Department, Exxon Mobil Corporation.” Its address is 5959 Las Colinas Blvd., Irving, TX 75039-2298. CIRCULATION REPORT TO HELP YOU USE OUR SITEFrom the beginning, our computer manager designed a system for logging detailed information about visitors to our site. It reports the number or visitors by hour of day, day of week, and day of year and several other characteristics. For January just ended, 838 unique visitors viewed items; the count does not include robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes. We e-mailed the Friday Report directly to 456 persons who have subscribed to it using the form in the upper right corner of our home page, and we do not know the number of them who might be included in the 838. Top search words used by visitors were timber 141, land 92, and Vardaman 66. Top pages viewed were buysell 433, Friday report 221, forum 192, and stumpage 122. Number of pages by visitor domain or country were commercial 1,848, network 1,820, US government 145, Russia 12, and even 2 in Indonesia. USED BOOK SALESWe offer for sale all used books listed at http://www.vardaman.com/booksale.php. OUR SYSTEM FOR BUYING OR SELLING LAND OR TIMBERFor details, click on http://www.vardaman.com and then on the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” You can offer to buy or sell timber or land. You must post the general area of your interest; be sure to include the state. You must also post your E-MAIL ADDRESS and the URL of your Internet site. Our tracking report will not report the number of visitors UNLESS you enter your URL. If you are selling, you should post the name of the tract. When you have entered all details, click on “Submit,” and what you just entered will appear on our Internet site at the bottom of the page under the red horizontal bar “Buy/Sell Land/Timber.” Be sure to check for and correct errors. For each tract posted and whose owner posted his URL, we charge $0.50 for each visit his ad receives. On each Friday at 0900 Central Time, we will e-mail him a bill for $0.50 for each visit his ad received during the week just ended. You can pay us by e-mailing the money to “Vardaman Virtual Forestry Company” at PayPal or mailing it to P.O. Box 12293, Jackson, MS 39236. We will delete your ad when your payments cease. BUY LAND
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